“Dada knows us inside out. He knows what our strengths and weaknesses are. Our performance would have been better under his captaincy. He would have been successful in getting the best out of our players,” Dinda said on his arrival here on Friday.
Dinda arrived with his team-mates including Ganguly, Laxmi Ratan Shukla and Wriddhiman Saha, from South Africa, where they finished their IPL campaign at the bottom of tally.
Ganguly, however, declined to talk to the waiting media.
Under New Zealander Brendon McCullum, the Kolkata side had a disastrous campaign as the Shah Rukh Khan-owned side earned the dubious distinction of losing eight matches on the trot.
Knight Riders however, put up a resurgent performance towards the end.
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