KKR retained gamers, current squad, purse quantity, remaining slots

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) launched a dozen of gamers forward of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 public sale.  KKR haven’t gained the IPL since 2014 and the franchise will look to finetune their squad come the IPL 2024 participant public sale on 19 December. KKR completed seventh in IPL 2023 with 12 factors, and haven’t made the playoffs since 2021.

IPL 2024 Auction: Full listing of gamers retained, launched, traded, remaining purse, squad abstract

The greatest information for KKR is the retention of West Indian duo Andre Russell and Sunil Narine. While Russell had a relatively below-par season with the bat, scoring simply 227 runs from 14 matches, that was nonetheless sufficient for the workforce administration to place religion in him for one more season. Narine, in the meantime, had ended final season with 11 wickets from 14 matches.

Related Articles

IPL Auction 2024: Captain of a franchise prone to be traded, prime gamers to be launched, says report

IPL 2024 Auction: Purse remaining for all 10 franchises forward of marquee occasion in December

KKR even have their batting firepower with the likes of Rinku Singh and Venkatesh Iyer retained within the squad. What’s extra, Shreyas Iyer will all be set to return to the facet to additional bolster their batting line-up.

Some of the largest names to have been launched earlier than the public sale have been Shardul Thakur, Shakib Al Hasan and Umesh Yadav. New Zealand’s duo of Lockie Ferguson and Tim Southee have additionally been launched by KKR.

Ahead of the IPL 2024 public sale, let’s check out how KKR’s squad stacks up and the way a lot cash is remaining within the purse:

 Kolkata Knight Riders retained gamers: Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Shreyas Iyer, Jason Roy, Sunil Narine, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy

 Kolkata Knight Riders launched gamers: Shakib Al Hasan, Litton Das, Aarya Desai, David Wiese, Narayan Jagadeesan, Mandeep Singh, Kulwant Khejroliya, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Johnson Charles

Kolkata Knight Riders remaining slots: Kolkata Knight Riders have 13 gamers of their current roster with 4 abroad gamers. KKR have 12 accessible slots, with 4 of these being abroad slots.

Kolkata Knight Riders purse remaining: KKR have spent Rs 67.three crore up to now for his or her current squad. They have Rs 32.7 crore remaining within the purse heading into the public sale.