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MUMBAI:
Having finished in the bottom rung of the table for both the
editions of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Kolkata Knight
Riders (KKR) has now turned to its fans to give them tips
to better their showing in IPL 2010.
Bollywood
superstar and KKR co-owner Shah Rukh Khan, over the weekend,
invited the team’s fans and detractors alike to send
in their suggestions for improving the team’s performance.
Shah
Rukh says, "When we used to lose, I used to get inundated
with messages, mostly suggestions. I feel sad when we lose,
but you have to take all those losses with little bit of ease
and a little sense of humour and all those messages and emails,
I used to keep them".
The
‘Main Bhi Coach’ programme was launched in
association with Nokia India.
People
can SMS their coaching tips to 9664555555. All the messages
would be discussed with the team and the coach to see if they
would in any way help improve the team.
Shah
Rukh Khan said that he was feeling quite positive about his
team’s prospects this season. "It happens in sports...
one team wins and the other loses. I won't say that we didn't
work hard. Maybe our decision of multiple captains was not
right, we can find excuses but the bottom line is that we
worked hard, we played very hard but not hard enough. We need
to play harder, we need to play tougher and we need to win
this."
He
also felt that there was going to be an extra buzz with the
league being played in India. "There's always a buzz
in playing here and it's a wonderful feeling. The feeling
one gets playing in front of 100,000 people at the Eden Gardens
is incomparable," the actor-entrepreneur stated.
On
the issue of replacing John Buchanan as coach with Dav Whatmore,
he said that Buchanan’s problem was communication with
the players. "Buchanan was a good coach but we all partners
took the decision to replace him in the team's interest. Communication
with the players was his problem due to the language or age
factor," he said.
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