Nonlinear, unpredictable and underwhelming. From a distance, that's how the season felt like for KKR.

Having kicked things off with three wins in four games, the campaign abruptly snapped out of it with five consecutive defeats and KKR could never really recover from that. And just like that, a tidy start turned into chaos and eventually fizzled out into a seventh-position finish. It was exactly unlike how their last season had panned out.

What worked for them?

Umesh Yadav and his