Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) all-rounder Andre Russell revealed that he was so distraught after his team’s loss to Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 2018 second qualifier match that he went into the shower wearing his clothes and shoes after getting out.

KKR needed 57 off 33 balls to book a place in the IPL finals when Russell walked into the middle in front of a raging Kolkata crowd. The team had just lost Chris Lynn and Russell was their last and best hope. Unfortunately, Russell was dismissed by Rashid Khan for 3 off 7 balls.

"When I got out to Rashid Khan, I got back inside and went in to shower with my cricket clothes on. My shoes and everything was wet. I was just there with the water running all over me because (the loss meant) it was basically the last game (of the season),” Russell told the KKR website.  

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Russell said if he had stayed there till the end, KKR might have won that match easily.

"I didn't get out being Dre Russ. I started to overthink the game. That was actually a ball I could have put away, and that's the moment where I knew I had messed up. If I was still batting at the back end, we would have won comfortably,” Russell added.

"I was just disappointed with myself. That's why I went into the shower with everything wet. I was happy that no one saw me that way because it was embarrassing. People would have been like - 'Are you losing it?' I realized (from that incident that) if a bowler feels you are scared to lift your bat, they are gonna be all over you. You have to back off a bowler by playing shots sometimes," he said.

(KKR.in inputs)