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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
No. |
Name |
|
Batting style |
Bowling style |
Notes |
27 |
Nitish Rana |
Left-handed |
Right-arm off break |
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77 |
Shubman Gill |
Right-handed |
Right-arm off break |
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35 |
Rinku Singh |
Left-handed |
Right-arm off break |
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N/A |
Siddhesh Lad |
Right-handed |
Right-arm off-break |
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16 |
Eoin Morgan |
Left-handed |
Right-arm medium |
Overseas; Captain |
|
52 |
Rahul Tripathi |
Right-handed |
Right-arm fast medium |
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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 |
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23 |
Kuldeep Yadav |
Left-handed |
Slow left-arm wrist-spin |
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29 |
Varun Chakravarthy |
Right-handed |
Right-arm leg break |
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N/A |
Manimaran Siddharth |
Right-handed |
Left-arm orthodox |
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5 |
Kamlesh Nagarkoti |
Right-handed |
Right-arm fast |
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26 |
Shivam Mavi |
Right-handed |
Right-arm fast-medium |
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24 |
Prasidh Krishna |
Right-handed |
Right-arm fast-medium |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
- Sourav Ganguly (2008,2010)
- Brendon McCullum (2009)
- Gautam Gambhir (2011-2017)
- Dinesh Karthik (2018-2020)
- 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 |
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