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 Kolkata Knight Right player list(KKR)

List of Kolkata Knight Riders cricketers

Sourav Ganguly, the former captain of the Indian cricket team was the icon player and led the franchise in the 2008 and 2010 seasons. Brendon McCullum lead the team in the intervening period. Both captains were released before the 2011 season. The former team included all-rounders Chris Gayle, David Hussey, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Angelo Mathews, batsman Ricky Ponting and wicket-keeper Wriddhiman Saha. The main bowlers were Umar Gul, Ishant Sharma, Ashok Dinda, Ajit Agarkar and Murali Karthik. Australian batsman Brad Hodge and bowlers Ajantha Mendis and Charl Langeveldt were bought outside the IPL auction in late 2008.

Kolkata Knight Riders in 2008

At the 2009 auction the team bought Bangladeshi all-rounder Mashrafe Mortaza at a whopping price of $600,000 dollars. Due to the unavailability of Pakistani players starting 2009, KKR had to suspend the contract of Umar Gul, who was a key performer from the 2008 season. On 26 April 2009, KKR administration sent back two of its players Akash Chopra and Sanjay Bangar on the premises of poor performance. Shane Bond was acquired after releasing Ricky Ponting, Morne van Wyk and the Pakistani players Umar Gul, Salman Butt, Mohammad Hafeez and Shoaib Akhtar before the third season. Moises Henriques was traded to Delhi in return for Owais Shah and Manoj Tiwary. Thus, their overseas roster for the 2010 season consisted of Shane Bond, Mashrafe Mortaza, Brendon McCullum, Charl Langeveldt, Ajantha Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Brad Hodge, David Hussey, Owais Shah and Chris Gayle.

2011 heralded the beginning of a new era for KKR. In the 2011 season, KKR drastically revamped their squad. Former captain and icon player Sourav Ganguly was not purchased in the January auction. This led to protest rallies, signature campaigns throughout the country and abroad along with stadium protests by various fan groups, such as 'No Dada No KKR', which received both national and international press attention. The team appointed Gautam Gambhir, who was bought for a record-breaking $2.4 million as skipper. Yusuf Pathan was also picked up for a whopping $2.1 million. Other international names who were added include Shakib Al Hasan, Brad Haddin, Jacques Kallis, Brett Lee, Ryan ten Doeschate, Eoin Morgan and James Pattinson. Haddin was replaced by Mark Boucher mid-season due to injury.

In the 2012 auction, KKR bought back their former captain, Brendon McCullum. They also acquired West Indian spinner Sunil Narine and South African fast bowler Marchant de Lange.

The team later added four domestic players to their squad, including Debabrata Das and Iresh Saxena from Bengal, Saurashtra's Chirag Jani and Sanju Samson from Kerala. However, in November 2012, KKR released the latter three from their team along with Jaydev Unadkat, a key performer from the previous seasons. In the 2013 auction, the team acquired only two overseas players, Sachithra Senanayake and Ryan McLaren.

Before the February 2014 auction, the team had only retained their key performers Gautam Gambhir and Sunil Narine. From the auctions that took place, the team brought back Jacques Kallis and Yusuf Pathan with their right-to-match (RTM) card. Also keeping their place in the squad was Ryan ten Doeschate and Shakib Al Hasan. New international players were Morne Morkel, Patrick Cummins and Chris Lynn. Prominent Indian players bought included Robin Uthappa, Umesh Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav and Piyush Chawla.

KKR's impressive additions in the 2015 auction were veteran Australian bowler Brad Hogg and wicket-keeper Sheldon Jackson. Before the auction in February 2016, they released Ryan ten Doeschate who was a part of their team for five consecutive seasons along with pace bowler Pat Cummins. The Knight Riders were particularly noted for their change in approach from the previous auctions where they had concentrated on spinners. For the 2016 edition, however, they acquired as many as six pacers in the form of all-rounders John Hastings, Colin Munro, Jason Holder and Rajagopal Sathish as well as bowlers Ankit Rajpoot and Jaydev Unadkat, with the latter being a former player of the squad. They signed one spinner in Manan Sharma. Before the 2017 auctions, they released Morne Morkel, Brad Hogg, Jason Holder, Colin Munro, John Hastings, Jaydev Unadkat, Rajagopal Sathish, Manan Sharma and replacement signing Shaun Tait. From the 2017 Indian Premier League auction, they signed Trent Boult, English all-rounder Chris Woakes, Australian Nathan Coulter-Nile, West Indian Darren Bravo and Jamaican Rovman Powell. The domestic players signed were Rishi Dhawan, Ishank Jaggi, Sayan Ghosh and R Sanjay Yadav. At the time, Andre Russell was banned for one year for doping; he was replaced by Colin de Grandhomme for the season. In January 2018, they only retained West Indian cricketers Sunil Narine and Andre Russell. Their two-time title winning captain Gautam Gambhir was released. At the auction, they retained Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla and Kuldeep Yadav using RTM (Right-To-Match) card. KKR also bought back their impressive opener Chris Lynn and uncapped Indian batsman Ishank Jaggi. Other uncapped batsmen bought were Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Cameron Delport, Rinku Singh and Apoorv Wankhade. They also bought West Indian uncapped all-rounder Javon Searles and uncapped Indian all-rounders Kamlesh Nagarkoti and Shivam Mavi. Other signings were veteran Indian wicket-keeper Dinesh Karthik, Australian pace bowlers Mitchell Starc and Mitchell Johnson and former Knight Riders player Vinay Kumar.

On 4 March 2018, Dinesh Karthik was appointed as the captain of KKR for IPL 2018 and Robin Uthappa was named vice-captain. Mitchell Starc was ruled out before the season due to injury and Tom Curran was announced as his replacement. Ahead of the auction for IPL 2019, eight players were released from the squad including Mitchell Starc and his replacement Tom Curran.

At the auction, their high-profile buys were Carlos Brathwaite for ₹50 million (US$700,000) and New Zealand pacer Lockie Ferguson for ₹16 million (US$220,000). Other players bought were South African pacer Anrich Nortje, English duo Harry Gurney and Joe Denly as well as uncapped Indian players Nikhil Naik, Prithvi Raj Yarra and Shrikant Mundhe for their base prices of ₹2 million (US$28,000) each. Before IPL 2020, KKR released 11 players from their squad and also traded in Siddhesh Lad from Mumbai Indians.

At the 2020 IPL Auction, KKR bought pace bowler Pat Cummins for 15.5 crores. This was the biggest buy in the auction. KKR also purchased Eoin Morgan, who just came off as captain of the World Cup winning England squad. He was bought for 5.25 crores. On 16 October 2020, Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Dinesh Karthik handed over Kolkata Knight Riders' captaincy to Eoin Morgan.

Kolkata Knight Riders

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name		Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
27	Nitish Rana		Left-handed	Right-arm off break
77	Shubman Gill		Right-handed	Right-arm off break
35	Rinku Singh		Left-handed	Right-arm off break
N/A	Siddhesh Lad		Right-handed	Right-arm off-break
16	Eoin Morgan		Left-handed	Right-arm medium	Overseas; Captain
52	Rahul Tripathi		Right-handed	Right-arm fast medium
12	Andre Russell		Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	Overseas
74	Sunil Narine		Left-handed	Right-arm off break	Overseas
93	Chris Green		Right-handed	Right-arm off-break	Overseas
19	Dinesh Karthik		Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Ex-Captain
18	Tom Banton		Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Overseas
7	Nikhil Naik		Right-handed	Right-arm off break
23	Kuldeep Yadav		Left-handed	Slow left-arm wrist-spin
29	Varun Chakravarthy		Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
N/A	Manimaran Siddharth		Right-handed	Left-arm orthodox
5	Kamlesh Nagarkoti		Right-handed	Right-arm fast
26	Shivam Mavi		Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
24	Prasidh Krishna		Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
69	Lockie Ferguson		Right-handed	Right-arm fast	Overseas
11	Harry Gurney		Right-handed	Left-arm fast-medium	Overseas
63	Sandeep Warrier		Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
30	Pat Cummins		Right-handed	Right-arm fast	Overseas
47	Ali Khan		Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	Overseas

All Players list of KKR

General
Name	First	Last	Nationality	Mat
Sourav Ganguly	2008	2010	India	40
Ajit Agarkar	2008	2010	India	27
Aakash Chopra	2008	2009	India	7
Debabrata Das	2008	2013	India	31
Ashoke Dinda	2008	2010	India	29
Chris Gayle	2008	2010	Jamaica	16
Brad Hodge	2008	2010	Australia	19
David Hussey	2008	2010	Australia	23
Iqbal Abdulla	2008	2013	India	33
Murali Karthik	2008	2010	India	26
Brendon McCullum	2008	2013	New Zealand	35
Ajantha Mendis	2008	2009	Sri Lanka	7
Mohammad Hafeez	2008	2008	Pakistan	8
Ricky Ponting	2008	2008	Australia	4
Wriddhiman Saha	2008	2010	India	33
Salman Butt	2008	2008	Pakistan	7
Shoaib Akhtar	2008	2008	Pakistan	3
Laxmi Ratan Shukla	2008	2013	India	42
Tatenda Taibu	2008	2008	Zimbabwe	3
Ishant Sharma	2008	2010	India	31
Umar Gul	2008	2008	Pakistan	6
Ranadeb Bose	2008	2009	India	1
Cheteshwar Pujara	2008	2010	India	10
Yashpal Singh	2008	2009	India	8
Shoaib Shaikh	2009	2009	India	2
Moises Henriques	2009	2009	Australia	4
Arindam Ghosh	2009	2009	India	2
Mashrafe Mortaza	2009	2009	Bangladesh	1
Charl Langeveldt	2009	2010	South Africa	1
Angelo Mathews	2009	2010	Sri Lanka	15
Anureet Singh	2009	2010	India	3
Owais Shah	2010	2010	England	5
Shane Bond	2010	2010	New Zealand	8
Rohan Gavaskar	2010	2010	India	2
Jaydev Unadkat	2010	2016	India	25
Manoj Tiwary	2010	2013	India	54
Gautam Gambhir	2011	2017	India	108
Yusuf Pathan	2011	2017	India	106

Captains

1. Sourav Ganguly (2008,2010)
2. Brendon McCullum (2009)
3. Gautam Gambhir (2011-2017)
4. Dinesh Karthik (2018-2020)
5. Eoin Morgan (2020- Present)

Administration and support staff

Position	Name
Owner	Shah Rukh Khan (Red Chillies Entertainment), Jay Mehta, Juhi Chawla (Mehta Group)
CEO and managing director	Venky Mysore
Team manager	Wayne Bentley
Head coach	Brendon McCullum
Assistant coach	Abhishek Nayar
Mentor	David Hussey
Bowling coach	Kyle Mills
Assistant bowling coach	Omkar Salvi
Spin bowling consultant	Pravin Tambe
Fielding coach	James Foster
Physiotherapist	Kamlesh Jain
Strength and conditioning coach	Chris Donaldson
Data and video analyst	AR Srikkanth