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2025 Kolkata Knight Riders season

The 2025 season will be the 18th appearance for the Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. They are one of the ten teams competing this year and will enter as the defending champions after defeating the Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets in the previous edition's final, ending a 10-year trophy drought.[1][2]

Kolkata Knight Riders
2025 season
CoachChandrakant Pandit
Ground(s)TBA
← 2024 2026 →

Background

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Pre-Auction

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Retentions

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The player retentions were announced by the teams on October 31, 2024.[3] The Kolkata Knight Riders utilized their entire retention capacity and retained six players: four capped and two uncapped. They have a remaining budget of ₹51 crore and no Right-To-Match (RTM) option available.

Knight Riders' Retentions before Mega Auction
Player Salary
  Rinku Singh[4] ₹13 crore (US$1.6 million)
  Sunil Narine ₹12 crore (US$1.4 million)
  Varun Chakravarthy ₹12 crore (US$1.4 million)
  Andre Russell ₹12 crore (US$1.4 million)
  Harshit Rana ₹4 crore (US$480,000)
  Ramandeep Singh ₹4 crore (US$480,000)

Releases

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Kolkata Knight Riders released 17 players ahead of the Mega-Auction,[5] including its title-winning captain, Shreyas Iyer.[6]

Knight Riders' Releases before Mega Auction
Roles Players
Batters Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer
Wicket-keepers KS Bharat, Phil Salt, Rahmanullah Gurbaz
All-rounders Anukul Roy, Sherfane Rutherford, Venkatesh Iyer
Pacers Chetan Sakariya, Dushmantha Chameera, Mitchell Starc, Sakib Hussain, Vaibhav Arora
Spinners Allah Ghazanfar, Suyash Sharma

Support Staff changes

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Gautam Gambhir was appointed as the head coach of the Indian cricket team, which prevented him from assisting the Knight Riders in the future. As a result, Dwayne Bravo, who has connections with the Knight Riders family from his time playing for the Trinbago Knight Riders, was appointed as the new mentor. Abhishek Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate also joined Gambhir as the assistant coaches of the Indian team respectively.

Support staff changes of Kolkata Knight Riders
Position Outgoing Incoming Ref.
Mentor   Gautam Gambhir   Dwayne Bravo [7]
Assistant Coach   Abhishek Nayar TBA
Fielding Coach   Ryan ten Doeschate TBA

Squad

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  • Source: ESPNcricinfo
  • Players with international caps are listed in bold.
  • Given ages are as of 1 January 2025 (2025-01-01).
Kolkata Knight Riders squad for the 2025 Indian Premier League
No. Name Nat. Birth date and age Batting style Bowling style Signed year Salary Notes
Retained players[8]
12 Andre Russell   (1988-04-29)29 April 1988 (aged 36) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 2014 ₹12 crore (US$1.4 million) Overseas
19 Ramandeep Singh   (1997-10-12)12 October 1997 (aged 27) Left-handed Right-arm off break 2018 ₹4 crore (US$480,000)
22 Harshit Rana   (2001-12-22)22 December 2001 (aged 23) Right-handed Right-arm fast medium 2022 ₹4 crore (US$480,000)
29 Varun Chakravarthy   (1991-08-29)29 August 1991 (aged 33) Right-handed Right-arm leg break 2020 ₹12 crore (US$1.4 million)
35 Rinku Singh   (1997-10-12)12 October 1997 (aged 27) Left-handed Right-arm off break 2018 ₹13 crore (US$1.6 million)
74 Sunil Narine   (1988-05-26)26 May 1988 (aged 36) Left-handed Right-arm off break 2012 ₹12 crore (US$1.4 million) Overseas

Administration and support staff

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Position Name
Head / Director of Cricket Venky Mysore
Team manager Wayne Bentley
Head coach Chandrakant Pandit
Batting coach TBA
Bowling coach Bharat Arun
Fielding coach TBA
Mentor Dwayne Bravo
Source: [citation needed]

League stage

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Points table

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League progression

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League progression
Team Group matches Playoffs
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Q1/E Q2 F
Kolkata Knight Riders
Win Loss No result
  • Note: The total points at the end of each group match are listed.
  • Note: Click on the points (group matches) or W/L (playoffs) to see the match summary.

References

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  1. ^ "KKR's bowlers rip through SRH to win third IPL title". ESPNcricinfo. 26 May 2024. Archived from the original on 26 May 2024. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  2. ^ "KKR vs SRH Cricket Scorecard, Final at Chennai, May 26, 2024". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
  3. ^ "Deadline For Submission Of Retention List For IPL 2025 Auction Revealed". ABP News. 29 September 2024. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Rinku Singh reacts after KKR retain him for IPL 2025". India Today. 31 October 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  5. ^ "KKR IPL 2025 retained and released players list". The Indian Express. 29 September 2024. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  6. ^ "IPL-winning captain Shreyas Iyer fails to find spot in KKR retention list". India Today. 31 October 2024. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
  7. ^ "DJ Bravo joins Kolkata Knight Riders as mentor". Kolkata Knight Riders. 27 September 2024.
  8. ^ "Russell, Shreyas Iyer, Starc unlikely to be retained by KKR". ESPNcricinfo. 30 October 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
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