Kolkata Knight Riders assistant coach Shane Watson is confident that his team will qualify for the playoffs. Currently KKR is at number 8 in the points table. He has total 9 marks. To reach the playoffs, first KKR will have to win all its remaining matches, and then it will have to depend on the results of other teams. If KKR wins all the matches then it will have 17 points. Meanwhile, Shane Watson said that after a slow start, KKR is now performing well as a team and they have every hope of reaching the IPL playoffs.

Know what Shane Watson said about KKR reaching the playoffs?

Shane Watson said before the match against defending champions Royal Challengers Bangalore, “To be honest, we have not talked about the future yet. There have been very impressive performances in the last few matches especially and now the team is playing well in all aspects. We have not given up hope and we know that even after slow starts, teams have reached the final. The history of the IPL shows this and we know it is possible.”

Difficult to play Varun Chakraborty’s next match

Regarding the initial defeat, he said that it took time for the team to adjust to the changes after the auction. Watson said, “It was going to take some time for everyone to adjust to the team. Now everything is fine and our batting order seems stable. We are finding out what is right for the team.” Watson said that due to the injury he suffered in his left leg in the last match, it is doubtful for spinner Varun Chakraborty to play in the next match.

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Most Man Of The Match Awards In The ICC T20 World Cup History: The ICC T20 World Cup 2026, jointly hosted by India and Sri Lanka, is scheduled to start from February 7. Team India will enter this tournament as the defending champion. Till now T20 World has been organized 9 times, in which three countries have won the title twice. The countries that have achieved this feat are India, England and West Indies. The Indian team will set out to create history by becoming the first team to win its third T20 World Cup title in its own hosting. The most important thing in this will be the performance of the players, who will make the team win with their strong play and will win the Man of the Match award for themselves. However, Virat Kohli tops the list of players who have won Man of the Match (MOTM) most number of times in the history of T20 World Cup. Apart from them, we will tell you here which players are named in the top-4.

Top-4 players who won the most MOTM in T20 World Cup

Virat Kohli has won maximum 8 MOTMs

Virat Kohli is at the top in the list of players who have won the Man of the Match award the most number of times in the T20 World Cup. Virat participated in the T20 World Cup a total of 7 times from 2012 to 2024. During this period, he played a total of 35 matches, in which he won the Man of the Match award maximum 8 times.

Gayle, Watson, Jayawardene and Zampa are at number two.

In the list of players who have won the Man of the Match award the most number of times in the T20 World Cup, four players are present at second place. This includes the names of Chris Gayle of West Indies, Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka and Shane Watson and Adam Zampa of Australia. All of them have received MOTM award 5 times each. Gayle has won this award after playing 33 matches, Jayawardene 31 matches, Watson 24 matches and Zampa 21 matches.

Only four players are present at number three

In the list of players who have won the Man of the Match award the most number of times in the T20 World Cup, only four players are present at the third position. This includes the names of South Africa’s AB de Villiers (30 matches), Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan (35 matches), Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi (34 matches) and Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan (43 matches). All of them have won MOTM award 4 times.

6 players are present at number four

In the list of players who have won the Man of the Match award the most number of times in the T20 World Cup, there are 6 players present at fourth place. All these players have won MOTM award 3-3 times. These include Sri Lanka’s Asalanka (16 matches), India’s R. The names of Ashwin (24 matches), England’s Jos Buttler (35 matches), Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya (18 matches), Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews (32 matches) and England’s Kevin Pietersen (15 matches) are included.

Before the IPL 2026 auction, Kolkata Knight Riders have made another major change in their coaching staff. Just a few days ago, Abhishek Nair has become the new head coach of KKR, while now Shane Watson has joined the Kolkata team as an assistant coach. Watson has previously been the assistant coach of Delhi Capitals team and will be returning to IPL after 3 years. Watson’s IPL career as a player was 145 matches.

Shane Watson expressed his happiness on becoming the assistant coach and said, “I am looking forward to working with the coaching staff and players, so that Kolkata can win another title.” As a player, Shane Watson played 145 matches in his IPL career, in which he scored 3874 runs with the help of 4 centuries and 21 half-centuries. He also took a total of 92 wickets while bowling medium pace.

Shane Watson had announced his retirement from all forms of cricket in the year 2020. He was last seen playing in the Indian Premier League in 2020. After retirement, he worked with many franchises and has established a good reputation as a coach.

Shane Watson retired in 2020

Watson, who retired in 2020, was one of the greatest all-rounder players in the history of white ball cricket. He scored 5757 runs in his 190-match ODI career. He has 3731 runs in his name in 59 Test matches and has scored 1462 runs in 58 T20 matches. Watson also scored 14 centuries and 67 half-centuries in his international career. Watson is also one of the few Australian players who has scored at least one century in all three formats. Apart from this, he took 291 wickets in bowling.

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IPL 2025 Trophy Winner RCB Prediction: The names of four teams reaching the playoffs of IPL 2025 are Royal Challengers Bangalore, Punjab Kings, Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians. Of these, 2 teams are such that they have never won the Indian Premier League title. Bangalore and Punjab will face the first qualifier (PBKS vs RCB Qualifier 1), on the other hand, the eliminator will face Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians. Now Australian veteran Shane Watson has predicted the winner of IPL 2025.

Shane Watson has shared a video on social media, in which he predicted that this time the RCB trophy is going to win. He said, “Who will be the winner of IPL 2025? I have been thinking about it for a long time, I will be RCB champion in my eyes. For me, Man of the Match will be Virat Kohli.”

RCB will become the champion, the reason

Shane Watson said that this time he is predicting to become the champion of RCB. Some matches have been difficult for Bengaluru in the second half of the season, but Watson says that the return of Josh Hazlewood in the playoffs has strengthened the possibility of RCB becoming the champion this year.

Virat will become the final ‘player of the match’

Shane Watson predicted that Virat Kohli will become a player of the match in the final match. In IPL 2025, Virat Kohli has scored 602 runs in 13 matches played at an incredible average of 60.20. Virat has also spent the most fifty (8) this season. Let us know that this is the third consecutive season, when Virat has scored more than 600 runs in the IPL.

Bengaluru can play final after 9 years

Royal Challengers Bangalore last played the final match of IPL in 2016. After that RCB has reached the playoffs several times, but could not taste the final play. Now after 9 years, under the captaincy of Rajat Patidar, RCB can not only play the final of IPL for the fourth time but can do the trophy for the first time.

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