"The one positive, amongst others last year was the versatility within our middle order and the flexibility to either promote Sunil or promote myself or DK. "The strength within the middle order is, if we play well, there's a lot of teams who will not enjoy playing against us. It is one of the strengths of our side, we need to make the right call in when to play the best hand. And that's one of the things that we learned from last year," he said. KKR missed the playoffs for a second successive time last year, missing out on net run-rate as this year they have retained most of the players. Their two big foreign recruits have been Shakib-al-Hasan and Ben Cutting, while also adding Harbhajan and an out-of-form Karun Nair apart from a number of young Indian talents. Morgan said they have a good bench strength this season to deal with the challenges of injury and illness.

"The IPL is the biggest tournament in the world that has the best players. It is highly competitive. One of the challenges for a successful campaign is the battle with injury and illness along the way, whether you like it or not it does happen throughout a season, so planning needs to be put in place in order to strengthen your squad in all areas. "We did that this year at the auction, which we're hoping will best position ourselves to both have quite a versatile team when it comes to selection, but also have strength and depth if needed." Morgan, who missed the last two ODIs against India due to a split-webbing, said he's all set to be back in action after removing the stitches on Thursday. "The stitches will be removed tomorrow and then I'll progress my batting in the coming days and then fielding at the back of the end of that. Given the time frame that is available for me it's looking very good," he added.

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