‘Great Call’: Twitter on KKR’s Captaincy Swap from DK to Morgan

The netizens were of view that it will help Karthik to focus on his batting and KKR will have a WC winning captain.

On Friday, 16 October, Kolkata Knight Riders’ wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik has handed over the captaincy to England's World Cup-winning skipper, Eoin Morgan.

While many people expected this announcement, some of them were surprised since it came when KKR were doing well in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) with four wins in seven matches.

The netizens seemed pleased with the call as according to them, it will free Karthik of the burden of the leadership and let him focus on his batting. And, KKR will now have an experienced captain who has been doing so well for the past five years as England’s white-ball skipper and also won the World Cup last year.

Many users on Twitter praised Karthik for his selflessness and felt that he took the decision keeping his team before himself. Here are some of the reactions on the announcement:

I've never seen such a humble cricketer before. He has shown that team matters for him and not his ego.
You've won our hearts many a times and again you won it. ❤️
Respect 🙏🏻

(Dinesh Karthik hands over captaincy to Eoin Morgan). @DineshKarthik 👑 pic.twitter.com/zyuJqJeKPE

— Parvez Siddiqui (@sid_parvez) October 16, 2020

Morgan as new captain for KKR 🔥
Dinesh Karthik gonna focus on batting ❤️

— ʀᴀɴᴅᴏᴍ •𝚅𝚊𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚊𝚜𝚊𝚕 (@Random_twitss) October 16, 2020

Dinesh Karthik must have been politely asked to step down from captaincy I assume. Ofcourse he or KKR wouldn't announce publicly that he was sacked. Anyways I always felt that Morgan should have been the captain from the start.

— ` (@FourOverthrows) October 16, 2020

If anything, terrific from Karthik to hand over mid-season. Shows he puts the team first. Let's not mock, please.#KKR https://t.co/tXtwUOn5I0

— Rohit Sankar (@imRohit_SN) October 16, 2020

Dinesh Karthik hands over #KKR captaincy to Eoin Morgan. #IPL2020 #MIvsKKR #KKRHaiTaiyaar pic.twitter.com/84z8l0RoQg

— 𝐒𝐚.𝐎𝐧𝐞 राज (@iamSawanRaj) October 16, 2020

Morgan is our captain now, Dinesh Karthik steps down from captaincy

Many kkr supporters asked them for this step and it happened https://t.co/aBS8gJYTtP

— 🆂🅾🅷🅰🅸🅻💜ᶦᵖᴸ ᶜʳᵃᶻᵉ 🆙🔥 (@iamsohail_1) October 16, 2020

Karthik has decent record as batsmen and he must be thinking to concentrate on that only. Being Morgan in squad, a world cup winner Captain DK always had an option and he took Tak.
Hope Eoin Morgan does well for the team and expect a miracle from here from new captain.

— Ee Sala Cup Namde 🇮🇳❤️ (@Devastated_Soul) October 16, 2020

I think Dinesh Karthik will become invariably dangerous now and so will KKR! That man Morgan is the 2019 Cricket World Cup winning Captain of England! He would have got some guts to have won it!
Good Change! 🙌🏻

— Aishwary Vardhan Singh Parihar (@iamavsp) October 16, 2020

Dinesh Karthik hands over KKR's captaincy to Eoin Morgan.
DK to captaincy-#MIvKKR pic.twitter.com/YQy2rlChK0

— Subhajit Mukherjee (@Subhajit_37) October 16, 2020

#KKR #KKRHaiTaiyaar#IPL2020
Eoin Morgan to Dinesh Karthik : pic.twitter.com/72qVaial9V

— Bleed Blue (@StarsSpear) October 16, 2020

Eoin Morgan has been appointed as New Captain for @KKRiders and he replaced Dinesh Karthik #KKR fans: https://t.co/XyPyotBLgs pic.twitter.com/ju80eibRQI

— 🌠 DON 🥃🚬 (@CroCroachSRK) October 16, 2020