Kolkata: After issuing a stern warning through his twitter account to the KKR players, in which he had said that the KKR players should stop giving excuses and instead deliver, Bollywood superstar and owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders franchise has said that he never tells his team how to play and that his role in the team is restricted to just “entertaining” the players and the spectators.

“I don’t involve myself in the cricketing part. Because I feel if I tell them how to play, they will tell me how to act and I don’t like to be told how to act,” the KKR owner said. “I don’t tell them (the players) much. I can only love them. Business decisions are taken by (co-owners) Juhi Chawla and Jai Mehta. I come to entertain.”

However, he justified the stern warning through his twitter account. “It helps at times if you treat them (the Knight Riders cricketers) as boys,” said SRK.

Shah Rukh was all smiles after his side’s convincing victory against the Deccan Chargers on Thursday. “It’s good to see dada (KKR skipper Sourav Ganguly) among the runs. I told them (the cricketers) at the start of this season that we cannot do worse than last year’s performance. So they can only take the team up,” he said.

With Ganguly leading from the front with a blazing 54-ball 88, KKR scripted a 24-run win over the Deccan Chargers to move up to the fifth slot in the IPL table with eight points. The team had finished with the wooden spoon in the second edition of the tournament held in South Africa last year.

“It’s most disappointing when the spectators come and we do not live up to expectations. So it’s time we prove ourselves to the crowd at Eden Gardens,” said King Khan.

KKR is scheduled to play four more games at their home ground till April 19.

Asked about his IPL experience since 2008, Shah Rukh said, “The first two years I did not know what to do. I felt helpless when the team did not do well. But now I know the game has its share of ups and downs.”

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