The International Cricket Stadium being built in Narsinghgarh, Tripura can be the new home ground of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in IPL 2025.
Before the IPL 2025 mega auction, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has released the list of retention and release players. The franchise has retained Rinku Singh, Sunil Narayan, Varun Chakraborty, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana and Ramandeep Singh. Players like captain Shreyas Iyer, Venkatesh Iyer and Nitish Rana have been released. The team will enter the auction with a purse of Rs 48 crore.
Meanwhile, big news is coming out regarding Eden Gardens Stadium, the home ground of Kolkata Knight Riders. Actually, large-scale changes will be made in the stadium before the T20 World Cup 2026. For this reason, defending champion KKR is going to get a new home ground in the upcoming season.
Tripura’s stadium will be the new home ground of KKR
The International Cricket Stadium being built in Narsinghgarh, Tripura can be the new home ground of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in IPL 2025. Let us tell you, the construction of this stadium started in 2017 at a cost of Rs 185 crore but till now the stadium is not completely ready.
Tripura Cricket Association secretary Subrata Dey confirmed that the stadium will be ready by February 2025. He also confirmed that the stadium can host KKR. And recently IPL Chairman Arun Dhumal has also visited the stadium. It was also said that if the work is not completed in the remaining time, they will terminate the contract of the firm and appoint a new firm.
According to News18, Subrata Dey said,
IPL Chairman Arun Kumar Dhumal recently visited the proposed International Stadium in Narsinghgarh. He said that if the stadium is ready before February next year, then it can be made the second home ground of KKR or some other state will get the benefit of it. This is a golden opportunity to host IPL matches in the proposed stadium, so we have called a reputed construction agency to expedite the work and complete it by February 2025. TCA will review the construction work and if the agency fails to meet the deadline, we will terminate it and appoint a new firm to complete the remaining work.