In the mega auction of IPL 2025, Kolkata Knight Riders have included many strong players in their team including Quinton de Kock, Venkatesh Iyer, Manish Pandey, Spencer Johnson, Rovman Powell.
Sunrisers Hyderabad were defeated by Kolkata Knight Riders in the final match of the Indian Premier League 2024. The performance of Kolkata Knight Riders was quite good throughout the Indian Premier League 2024 season. Now Kolkata team would definitely like to win the upcoming season also.
Kolkata Knight Riders have included many strong players in their team in the mega auction of the Indian Premier League 2025. Ahead of the upcoming season, Kolkata Knight Riders released Shreyas Iyer from their team, although they retained Rinku Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Ramandeep Singh, and Harshit Rana.
In the mega auction of IPL 2025, Kolkata Knight Riders have included many strong players in their team including Quinton de Kock, Venkatesh Iyer, Manish Pandey, Spencer Johnson, Rovman Powell. Not only this, Kolkata Knight Riders bought Venkatesh Iyer for Rs 23.75 crore. Kolkata Knight Riders are looking very aggressive in the upcoming season also. With this, today we tell you the possible playing XI of Kolkata Knight Riders in the upcoming season:
Opener:
Sunil Narayan and Quinton de Kock
Sunil Narayan and Quinton de Kock can be seen opening for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2025. Sunil Narine’s performance was very good in IPL 2024 and he played an important role in his team’s victory.
Quinton de Kock also has a lot of experience of playing in the Indian Premier League and both these players can be seen playing aggressive cricket from the very beginning. Talking about Quinton de Kock, he has performed very well in franchise cricket recently and he can be seen batting well in the upcoming series also.
Middle Order:
Venkatesh Iyer, Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh
Venkatesh Iyer can be seen performing tremendously in the middle order, on whom the Kolkata franchise has made a huge bid. Venkatesh Iyer has been seen in excellent form for some time now.
Manish Pandey was included in their team by Kolkata Knight Riders at the last moment. Manish Pandey also has a lot of experience of playing in this important tournament and Kolkata Knight Riders would definitely like to include him in their playing XI.
Allrounder: Andre Russell
The all-rounder will be seen playing the role of Andre Russell and Sunil Narine in Kolkata Knight Riders. Both these players have performed brilliantly for Kolkata Knight Riders in the last several seasons.
Russell is counted among the aggressive batsmen in the world and can also perform brilliantly for his team through bowling. The upcoming season is going to be important for both these players.
Bowlers: Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty, Spencer Johnson, Umran Malik
It is very important for all these bowlers to bowl well in the upcoming season. In IPL 2024, it was seen that along with the batsmen, the bowlers also played their roles very well and that is why Kolkata Knight Riders won against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the final.
Harshit Rana and Varun Chakravarthy are the key players of Kolkata Knight Riders while Spencer Johnson and Umran Malik have also left their mark in this tournament.
