Ajinkya Rahane & Co cannot be blamed if they think Monday’s ‘no result’ at the Eden Gardens was a good thing. In desperate need of a win, the Kolkata Knight Riders were a precarious 25 for 2 in the fourth over against the high-performing Punjab Kings when rain butted in, and the Knights were able to find their first point in IPL-19.

KKR have to get their act together quickly as Lucknow Super Giants, flush from Sunday’s emphatic win in Hyderabad, come calling for a joust on Thursday. It doesn’t help that Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy, who have been at the core of KKR plans over the years, were missing from the playing XI against Punjab. At the toss, Rahane had informed that Chakravarthy was out because of “injury” while Narine was “unwell.”