Senior all-rounder Andre Russell on Thursday supported Kolkata Knight Riders’ head coach Chandrakant Pandit, whose coaching style was termed “militant” by former KKR all-rounder David Wiese. (Full IPL 2024 Coverage)
Wi❀ese, who now plies his trade for Namibia, claimed that many foreign players in the roster of KKR were frustrated by Pandit's tough style of functioning during last year’s IPL.
However, Jamaican Russell, an iℱntegral part of KKR’s core group, sounded different.
“We’ve been working with him from last year. I think when you're working with a coach for the first time, you have to make sure that you adjust to their philosoph𒆙y. There have to be rules. We are professionals. So, we don't complain,” said Russell during the pre-match press meet here.
“I tr🐓y to do the best for this franchise. He's been doing an amazing job, and 💙we've gotten coming back as well,” he added.
Pandit, who is known as a disciplinarian, had taken over as KKR coach ahead of IPL 2022 after Brendon McCullum accepted England’s head coach job.
“He (Pandit) is known in India as a veryꦛ militant type of coach. He is very strict, very disciplinarian that type of stuff.
“Sometimes in franchise cricket, when you have overseas guys, who’ve played all 🌊over the world, they don’t need anyone coming and telling them how they need to behave, what they need to wear and what they need to do the whole time.
"So, that was tou💜gꦰh,” said Wiese on the podcast ‘Hitman for Hire: A year in the life of a franchise cricketer’ recently.
