KKR’s bowling cupboard was already bare before Pathirana went missing. Losing their strike pacer until mid-April forces Varun Chakravarthy into an unsustainable workload early on—a spinner can’t shoulder a pace-attack’s burden alone. The real problem: KKR’s thin squad construction. They banked on Pathirana’s availability without backup options. That’s poor planning, not bad luck. They’ll leak runs in April and regret it come playoffs.