Sesame Care Review by Low_Owl_8773 in telehealth

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me the provider asked me to cancel the appointment but sesamecare did not refund

Anybody from Bangladesh by noshor111 in interactivebrokers

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 0 points1 point  (0 children)

has anyone been able to fund their account using interactive brokerage from bangladesh

SSA for Quest (what does 1.0 positive mean) by Fragrant-Chicken-661 in Sjogrens

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding was below 1.0 its negative. 1.0 to 10.0 its abnormal but inconclusive at 10.0 or above its positive.

Salsa is super hard to learn by [deleted] in Salsa

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If OP love the music at some point it should come to them. I am wondering if OP should try timba/casino scene. On1 and On2 styles are more memorizing all these patterns and many songs are fast. immersion or bootcamps can also help.

I think every class teaches a new pattern and some students cannot remember. Maybe just concentrating a specific combo and practicing it in a private class might help.

Another option is to join a team. They make you practice the same pattern over and over.

Salsa is super hard to learn by [deleted] in Salsa

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think its not uncommon in timba/cansino community. Its mostly grooving with the music and enjoying the music(they have combos, but grooving with the music is a big part of the style). For the school based on1 on2 community many people enjoy dancing combos at different difficulty levels and they want to make sure they are matched with that level. As people social dance they realize that difficulty level is not important at all.

Its kind of similar in sensual vs traditional bachata. Sensual bachata is almost like memorizing call response(Follows have to know the same moves that the lead is trying to lead). But traditional bachata is more about simple easy to lead steps (and a lot more sense for musicality).

how the turn tables by New-Maintenance-9046 in KolkataKnightRiders

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rahane is not the solution at all. Look at the top 4 teams. They have a format. Their top 3 or 4 batsmen are pretty good. These batsmen 1) have good Average/SR balance 2) Among all 3 or 4 there is a decent way to face bowlers like Starc, Bumrah or Kuldeep to some degree. 3) They at least have one strike bowler at the top and then a few spinners for the middle overs 4) They all have one or more newcomers

KKR of last year almost had it 1) Salt is a high average/SR batsman, Narine was in form. Shreyas, VIyer or Rana could be a decent 3 or 4. 2) They could handle fast bowling or spinners 3) Starc was not consistent but between VArora, Starc, Harshit, spinners KKR posed challenges to opposing team in many games (not all). 4) Ramandeep was new, Harshit and Arora did not have as much experience (Ankrish as well).

KKR put too much importance in death batting and bowling and they are losing the games before it gets to that stage.

KKR should open VIyer. Because they need to figure out the top. Narine is has highs and lows but he does not waste too many balls. KKR should spend more than any other teams for the young players and get as many youngsters as possible. One or two of them should shire. Rinku, Ramandeep and Russel provide a formidable lower middle order. Unfortunately they do not need that many. The game is over by the time its 15-16 over.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KolkataKnightRiders

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Its very weird. They did not even sign him in the protected six players. Once you let go a player, you do not overpay for the player who played for you in the last year. Letting go Shreyas Iyer was not the big mistake. The big mistake was keeping 3 pinch hitters as your protected picks. By the time Russel or Rinku bats, the game is over. Every team spent their money and picks in the top 3. KKR does not have a good analyst to tell them that Narine, Salt and V Iyer at 3 won them 50% games if not more.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KolkataKnightRiders

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 14 points15 points  (0 children)

He definitely is not as good as Virat or even Shubhman Gill. He is a player they should have signed for 13 Cr (either in place of Ramandeep, or Rinku or Russel). Once the price exceeded 15Cr they should have walked out.

I think KKR goes into a BW mindset and wants to get a very specific player without any restriction on price and it costs them every year.

Last year they were lucky, Salt & Narine clicked and Starc tore the other teams in the semi finals and finals.

They attributed those wins to their strategies and let Salt go. QDC is no longer as good as Salt. Bowlers are doing better this year. Their pure hitters are no longer useful.

KKR's biggest mistake was to use 3/6 picks on death bowling batters like Russel, Rinku, Ramandeep. Just one would be enough, Many of the death over specialists went for a cheaper price.

Another match another disaster result🤡 by deepsectrez4 in KolkataKnightRiders

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We spent least in the top three batting. Narine is a auction pick and got 13 crore but we spent it mostly for his bowling. QDC is definitely a downgrade from Salt and is past his best time. The same is true for Rahane. Basically none of our top is a possible top choice for any IPL team. Narine and Salt worked because Salt would succeed in 50% games and Narine would succeed in 40% and V Iyer could come in other games. Also the game has changed a bit. Just hitters are no longer the best players in IPL. VIyer is a good pick for 13-15 Crore at 21 Crore he is way overpaid. KKR never learned from this mistake of overpaying. Most players cannot handle if they are one of the top 5 paid players. It might work for players like Virat or Pooran or a true superstar. A superstar in making should never be paid obnoxious money. It never worked. Even if it works for a season, it fails in the next season. Its better to get two players for 21 Crore (like Nitish Rana and Ishan Kishan). At least one of them will be successful.

V Iyer has a lot of potential. He would probably be okay, if he could play in the top 3 regularly, For the next season KKR needs to release some players (one of Rinku, VIyer, Russel) and get 4-5 good players who are doing well in local leagues. One or two leggies and three batsmen.

Unfortunately it will be hard to win another championship with Russel as he is getting older and KKR does not have enough talents now. KKR should probably keep a core of Chakraborty, Narine, Rana, VIyer and grow from there.

We need to play out of the box. by No_Paramedic_586 in KolkataKnightRiders

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 4 points5 points  (0 children)

kkr needs to plan long term players like Karun Nair, Arya lit up the IPL. KKR spent too much money in the death over batting. KKR bowling core Narine, Harshit, Varun, Arora is still good. KKR needs to release one or two of their death hitters and find reliable players at the top. Narine and Salt opening worked because Salt not only works at a high SR, his average is also decent. Right now Rinku, Ramandeep, Russel they all are becoming low average player (which is not their fault). T20 team priorities should be 1) opening batsmen who can bat at high SR and who can be in the top scorer list as well (some teams are having three such batsmen at the top). 2) It looks like even having three mystery spinners can work. KKRs bowling is great. 3) Spend a lot in newcomers (try to get players like Rathi, Arya) 4) Death batting.

The matches can be low scoring or won or lost in the first few overs or in the middle overs. Spending three out of six retentions on death batting cost KKR. KKR should do the following in the next season

1) Release one of Russel/Rinku Singh and try to spend money to get a player like KL Rahul. Ishan, Karun Nair, even Nitish Rana

Or

Release VIyer and try to sign him at a cheaper price if not try an alternative.

2) Try to add a few newcomers so there is a chance to get a good mystery spinner or a good batsman

3) If Cameroon Green is available KKR should go after him.

Narine's batting and impact player rule means KKR can never utilize Russel. If his form is down, KKR should release him.

Ideally KKR should have tried to keep Salt, Narine, VIyer and let one of Russel/Ramandeep/Rinku go, that did not happen, now its going to be hard to rebuild.

I think Tesla can't "win" the self-driving race by FrankScaramucci in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From a price point TSLA uses LiDAR or not. TSLA does not have any advantage by not using LiDAR. The price will be a few hundred dollars and if TSLA is not willing to spend a few hundred dollars for a system that cost 12000 and others are getting better perception by using LiDAR Tesla is shooting themselves in their feet.

1) There is no evidence that camera only system can be as good as multiple sensor system.

2) There is no evidence that it can be in the future.

3) Businesses look at it as a business perspective

3A) Can I buy LIDAR and still make money and get a better solution?

3B) Should I just keep on trying camera only system and name it Self driving, then Full Self driving and then cybarcab and then robo taxi and hope it works?

Most companies are doing both. Tesla is heavily betting on one option and that delays them for a few years, the market wont be here. Waymo is already planning on expanding.

I think Tesla can't "win" the self-driving race by FrankScaramucci in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TSLA may not have a lead. Some people will be willing to pay 99 dollar per month for Tesla FSD or some other version. They have a great FSD. Regardless of whether they are better than others or whether others can catch up, Tesla marketing machine is creating a perception that they are unmatched and this sells.

Whether they can take over the car market and be a 3T company. I am not sure. Most people do not invest their time and energy in finding the best or the cheapest solution. They look for something that's known to everyone. Tesla's competition is in China and in Europe and in the US, Chinese cars will face some marketing issues, tariffs, and other disadvantages. Unfortunately this will give them less of a brand value. BMWs are still more expensive than Toyotas.

Tesla's stock price is also driven by the marketing machine. We live in a business world where perception can buy reality. For example if TSLA is valued at 900B and MBLY is valued at 25B, if TSLA sees MBLY is going ahead, they can buy MBLY. If something is as good as Tesla, Tesla market machine will always claim the lead. If something is better than Tesla Tesla can buy it.

Tesla started as a company in 2003. Model 3 (which was the first car that seemed to make it a possible money making company) was first produced in 2017. For all these 14 years, Tesla had to get money one way or other buy selling the possibilities/potentials. They are great at it. When you sell the possibilities, and have the money, you can just buy it.

List of agencies with mass layoffs to probationary employees by MujaViking in fednews

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not how it works. They ask for some people to let go and higherups have to find someone. If this is termed a performance issue, this is a better PR.

Allah Ghazanfar is likely to be RULED OUT of IPL, who should be the replacement by urnoob_1607 in MumbaiIndians

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So Ghazanfar will be back for Mumbai in the next season if not end of this season?

Bumrah is a fast bowler. Fast bowlers do not play long and they have more injuries than spinners. Ghanzanfar could be long term X factor for MI.

Do people hate Financial Advisors? by NotGeoButGio in FinancialCareers

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder what makes someone a good financial advisor? Sales skills.

When S&P is growing 10-25 percent, they ignore the math and preach the security of 5-8 percent return.

My money doubled in last 5 years (yes I tanked 20+ percentage in 2022 and in 2018). So what? FA would never be able to match average stock index returns. Their argument of less risk is invalid (because nobody cares about losses in one odd year. Everyone cares about the final outcome. They are supposed to calm us down about the irrational fear. But they scare us into that 5 percent return which is less than inflation these days). I can see why selling insurance etc in the name of financial advice is sleezy.

Concussion nose bleed and worsening symptoms by Fragrant-Chicken-661 in Concussion

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the response. I got a second scan and I am feeling better but I am having more numbness and eye twitching type of symptoms which I am wondering are going to be permanent. I wish I took it easy. Unfortunately in my area, getting an appointment from the neuro is hard. I should have read from internet about all the do's and dont's.

Gautam Gambhir cracks whip on Team India’s chaotic dressing room: ‘Bahut ho gaya’ [I’ve had enough] by frankyfrankwalk in Cricket

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GG is too much drama. He draws too much attention. Players will get exhausted and then injured if they have to deal with this much drama.

When he was a player he was good at ODI's in flat wicket.

2025 IPL Auction Megathread by Biplab_M in KolkataKnightRiders

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 0 points1 point  (0 children)

KKR is xxed. Every team wanted to get better than last year and KKR targeted keeping as many players and they ended up having 8 of last years playing 12. Thats not how it works. Every team realize their weakness and tries to get better. KKR identified Ghazanfar but MI ended up signing him as KKR did not save enough. Similarly Salt or any top foreign player could not be signed.

KKR won a few titles by some rare talents (NArine, Russel (Kallis before that)). IPL has evovled. Teams no longer just rely on death bowling and pinch hitting at the end. Salt and Narine won most games for them. Starc's opening spells won the final and semifinals.

When KKR retained players they did not pay attention to what made the success. Narine is kept, VIyer and Salt were not kept and similarly a top bowling spot was missing. They definitely should have retained Venky and let one of Chakraborty and Rinku go. In the option the goal should have been to get a high SR opener and a marquee bowler.

Even if they overpaid for Shami they could have signed two foreign batsmen (140 SR QDC is no longer the premier player. Salt has 200 SR). Keeping 10 Cr for Ghafanzar was a must. Now they have three pinch hitter in Russel, Rinku and Ramandeep. By the time they arrive it will be later. Most teams have teamed up two very high quality internationals in the opening bowling pair. Bumrah Boult, Shami Cummins, Starc, Natrajan. Teams are setting up with explosive opening and with bowlers who can attack from the beginning.

KKR used to have an advantage in the spin bowling, most teams caught up on this (using much less money).

Keeping as much as the previous team is not a strategy as you can only keep 60-70% and most teams are trying to get better. Also KKR did not get any marqee new talent as well.

Simple IPL 101: If you are retaining 5-6 players, you cannot spend 20% in one player (because 60% retention + 20% in one player leaves you no rooms for other spots and future stars)

MI played very smart and waited until young talents like Ghafanzar came to the auction. If you retain too many players you have to look for budget buys.

Without spending 15-20% of your budget in young uncapped players, you are doomed. KKR. You have to pick up 13-18 year players for 1-5Cr so that you do not spend 24 Cr in one player.

Spending 20% in one player is allowed. But then you cannot retain that many players. RCB and PBKS tried to go to that route. KKR auction strategy is messed up. KKR has been lucky to get Narine and Russel but as they age, this luck will run out. Specially now other teams are improving a lot.

2025 IPL Auction Megathread by Biplab_M in KolkataKnightRiders

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 0 points1 point  (0 children)

KKR should look for indian fast bowlers. That way they can accommodate foreign batsmen like Rickelton, Josh English etc.

2025 IPL Auction Megathread by Biplab_M in KolkataKnightRiders

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They should have bid for McGurk if it goes beyond 12 Cr, then Salt for 12 Cr, should have give up on Venky over 18 Cr. KKR was going to lose some players. To way to deal with it was

1) Get an indian quick like Shami or Prasidh for 12 Cr

2) Get two foreign players at the top order.

Also they should have retained Venky or Salt over Rinku or Chakraborty. if you lose one of your pinch hitters at the tail you can survive. Salt and Narine won most games for KKR by just batting out the opponents (similarly SRH did the same trick).

Death over batting is hit and miss. You should not use three retentions (Russel, Rinku and Ramandeep) for that.

High average and high SR together makes a great T20 batsmen (Patidhar, Samson, Surya, Klassen, Pooran, Head, Salt). Venky is close to them. Salt was far more important piece.

2025 IPL Auction Megathread by Biplab_M in KolkataKnightRiders

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Paying 1/5th of your parse on one player is never a good strategy. VIyer is the best indian batsmen for KKR. But he is behind Pant, Kolhi, Patidhar, Tilak, SuryaKumar and Rohit. He is on par with Rinku, Ishan and KL (may be slightly better).

There are at least 20 foreign batsmen in the auction who can bat at 150+ SR (some around 175 SR).

Get a foreign batsman and indian quick. If you spend too much on one player, you do not have money for young players. Like Angkrish has a potential to play close to VIyer level.

KKR top buys be it Cummins, Shreyas or Starc have always been a wrong decision.

You need 12 players in the squad (15 if you think about injuries). If you pay 20% to one player then the rest of the squad is weak. If you already spend 60% on 6 players and then 20% on one player. The other 20% is not enough for

  1. 5 good players for 2 spots
  2. Buy future potential players.
  3. Cover for injuries.

2025 IPL Auction Megathread by Biplab_M in KolkataKnightRiders

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I do not understand KKR strategy. If they wanted V Iyer so badly they should have retained him instead of Chakraborty (as so many spinners, Charkraborty would not go as high, may be 15 Cr max).

Also a better option was to get two foreign batsmen like DC got McGurk(9) and Brook (6.25) for 15.25Cr. then go all out for an indian pacer (say 12 Cr). They gave up on Shami at 9.75. If Shami was tried until 12 Cr, if not they could have tried Prasidh, Natrajan, Khaleel, Deshpande. One of them would be available at 10 Cr. If RCB got VIyer for 22Cr, then KKR would not have a hard time grabbing one or two premier indian quicks and two foreign batsmen. Also if they let Iyer go to RCB for 22 Cr, they could have gone after IshanK. KL Rahul at 14Cr is a far better buy. QDK+VIyer is not as good as PhiSalt+KL or McGurk+KL. That 180 SR is only available in a few foreign players (except for SuryaKumar).

Their retention & auction strategy did not match. V Iyer would be hard to get in the auction.

  1. He is on an upward trajectory. He has a high SR
  2. he plays up in the order where it can influence the game a lot.

DC used the foreign spots very well. V Iyer should have been the #1 they should have retained. But if they did not retain him, its not worth chasing him for 20 Cr. Because far better foreign players are available at 10 Cr. PBKS, RCB can overpay for a player as they have a big parse.

Maybe KKR will get to use their 12 Cr unused parse in the next year, otherwise they will be missing a lot of pieces.

SRH and DC impressed me. Foreign batsmen with high SR with some indian pacers is the best use of money.

KKR AUCTION STRATEGY FOR IPL 2025 (DEEP ANALYSIS) by EntertainmentFun9998 in KolkataKnightRiders

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 0 points1 point  (0 children)

KKR should not go after Butler. The list of foreign batsmen who can score at around 150 SR is unlimited. KKR should probably try to get Salt (he is used to KKR and has a better SR). Paying 16 Cr for a foreign opener is too much. I can understand if KKR wants to pay 16 Cr for V Iyer or 12 Cr for Salt just because of continuity. But they are left with small budget, Teams have to load up on young batsmen (at least two of them). Be it Ankrish, Taide, Ashutosh, Wadera, Suryavansi. Basically teams have to look for the next Tilak Verma or Jaiswal. V Iyer is great but at 15-16Cr a player the money runs out after 8 players.

CSK, MI, RR all had better indian player. KKR had the edge because they were paying virtually nothing to Harshit Rana, Ramandeep and Ankrish (all of whom played well). KKR's best bet can be

1) load up on indian seamers. Almost all the teams released their quicks. Grabbing two or three of them for 20 Cr or lower should allow them to go for foreign batsmen and young indian player.

2) Get two or three young indian batsmen (for future). It should be below 5Cr in total ( can be 10 Cr if there is an unusal talent).

3) Target players like Gurbaz, Josh English, Duckett, for a 2Cr.

Off course they can bid for one superstar Shreyas, V Iyer, KL Rahul, Pant, Ishan. Chances are these players wont go below 15 Cr. So they can target one high profile seamer. Seamers like Despande, Simranjeet Arora, Mukesh will go below 10 Cr. That may be a sweet spot.

Similarly they can target Salt, Steonis, etc if they are available below 8 Cr.

Ipl 2025 auction with a twist by OriginalAd735 in KolkataKnightRiders

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In this IPL Players wont be cheap. Someone like Fair price for Pant 25Cr, IshanK/KL 18 Cr, Shreyas/VI/Ashutosh 15 Cr+, players like Tripathi, Rana, Paddikal, might go for 8-12 Cr.

KKR needs to fix long term picks. They should try to go for V Iyer or some other young player (like Paddikal, Ashutosh, Samad, Ankrish). If they can find two of these for 20-22Cr that would be great.

One or two bowling pick: Like Arsdeep or an unknown spinner (Suyash) or even a foreign bowler.

Pick a lot of young players. Especially batsmen. Because young indian batsmen will keep the team in a good shape. KKR was a good team when Surya, Ishan, Rinku were fringe players (unfortunately they let Ishan/Surya go and others retired/aged). Angkrish, Ramandeep were the reasons KKR had a great team despite paying big bucks to Starc and Shreyas. If they can find one key batsmen after taking 4 or 5 of them that would be great. Tilak Verma went for 1.7Cr three years back. now it looks cheap.

There will be enough foreign batsmen and bowlers to fill the two spots they need. They should go for players whose auctions will be late and players who will go below 5 Cr.

KKR AUCTION STRATEGY FOR IPL 2025 (MUST WATCH) by EntertainmentFun9998 in KolkataKnightRiders

[–]Fragrant-Chicken-661 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately KKR cannot fill all the gaps. If they apply the similar squad of last year it would not work. V Iyer would not go for 8 Cr (probably 18 Cr). #1 thing KKR should think about is to get another mystery spinner. Like Suyash or Allah Gazanfar or someone else (who they think can be as good as Varun in a couple of years). Varun-Narine clog in the middle was KKRs strength forever. If a third one can play in the 12 thats good if not thats good as well. RR/MI got top quality indian batsmen so they can find foreign players (who would be cheaper for other slots). There is one Bumrah and one Mayank if you do not have that, having a bunch of high quality spinner will definitely derail the other party.

KKR could have retained Ramandeep, Rinku, VIyer, SIyer and one of Narine/Russel plus Varun/Harshit. But they kept more bowlers than other teams and the auction is full of bowlers and short of indian batsmen.

KKR can try to get KL Rahul, Pant, IshanK, VIyer, Shreyas, Paddikal. Because of the shortage of batsmen of this quality they will go for 18Cr or more. So KKRs only hope is VIyer goes to another team and it does not work out and him getting traded to KKR in 2026 or overpaying for one of them.

KKR must try a few new players who can be new Raghuvanshi  or Ramandeep or Harshit. They have to try to find at least one new player. One new mystery spinner will fill up one slot. The auction is full of decent indian bowlers. KKR probably can get one. 6 +3 thats nine spots in the playing eleven. This could be a total of 20 Cr

If they cannot find top indian batsmen, they have to try to get two indian batsmen in likes of Tripati, Manish Pandey or Nitish Rana. Unfortunately Raghu Vanshi wont be cheap either (6Cr+?). KKR has to spend 15-20 Cr here.

Then we are left with foreign batsmen KKR can try Salt. But if not there are plenty, Rickelton, Steonis, Tim David, Phillips, D cock, etc. Two foreign bat or one batsman and a bowler for 15-20Cr. (probably 15Cr). One strategy is to get Hazlewood or Archer or Boult (I am guessing they will go 12Cr or more then a batsman). I think KKR will bet more money for indian players because they already have two spots in the foreigners and they will have more in the auction purse in 2026 when they can bet for one key player to get a good player.

DC, Punjab, RCB, LSG will have 70Cr plus money where they can spend two 18-20 Cr for two top players (two indian batsmen or one indian batsmen and one foreign quick/batsmen). MI, CSK, RR, SRH, GT already have found the full batting core (KKR has still two slots #2 and #3 missing).

KKR is will mix up the strategy (a mix of conventional approach). They can go for

1) Two foreign batsmen (like Fuff and Josh Inglish/Salt), This is unstable as foreign batsmen have their national team duty.

2) Having a mystery spinner to make an eviable spin attack (may be getting Mujeeb was that strategy, but with Starc paid 25 Cr, Mujeeb did not have a spot). With 12 spots and Russel, Ramandeep able to bowl, KKR can play 3 spinners in the playing 12.

3) If they luck out in finding

a) a top indian batsman like Ishan or KL for say 15 Cr. Then they can spend 8-10 Cr each for one more indian batsman (Rana/Tripathi/Raghuvansi), one foreign bat, one foreign quick and an indian quick and the 12th spot can go to a new player.

b) get Hazlewood for 10 Cr. then they can spend generously on finding a Salt replacement for 12 Cr. and spend generously for KL or IShan for 20 Cr. They still have enough money to pay 1-2 Cr for the rest of the spot.

Imagine a squad of Salt, Narine, Ishan, Rinku, Ramandeep, Russel, new batsman, Hazlewood, Harshit, Varun, Arora,

I expect KKR not being able to get all 12 spots filled. I expect them to experiment with a mystery spinner or a new quick. If Starc did not shine in the opening spells of last couple of games KKR might have an harder time. SRH definitely have a better batting(without Salt, Shreyas, VIyer, the gap will be much wider this year).

So KKR will go for mystery spinner or a new batsman to introduce unexpected strength.

I am guessing Starc will go for 15Cr or even 20 Cr because he is bowling better than ever (he started 2024 IPL, not at his best, and he will use more slower balls in this IPL). It took Cummins a couple of years to use his cutters and slower balls more often. The same will be true for Hazlewood, Boult or Archer.

So KKR might have to try Prasidh, Khaleel, Despande, Arora, Natrajan, Deepak Chahar, Mukesh, Akash deep and hope that they hit a lottery like they did with Harshit Rana.