Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) player Nitish Rana hopes to make use of his off-spin on the slow UAE wickets, thus serving as a true all-rounder in the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League ( IPL) starting on September 19. Nitish Rana boasts an economy rate of 6.98 in T20 cricket while collecting 26 buckets. He bowed more frequently in List A cricket, taking 31 wickets to an outstanding 4.52 economy. In the 2018 IPL, Rana had taken the wickets of AB de Villiers and Virat Kohli in successive deliveries.