IPL 2024: Kolkata Knight Riders Team Preview
Kolkata Knight Riders Team Preview: As the Kolkata Knight Riders are buckling up for the cash rich league, with he baggage of challenges faced by the bowlers in the last seas. KKR will bounce back with a bang this time as they have not grabbed an IPL trophy since decade. Kolkata fixed this with a big purchase of this year in the IPL 2024 Auction, after buying the services of Mitchell Starc for 24.74 crores that makes him the most expensive player of the years.
Kolkata suffered the last season form one end but gradually fixed the side by taking Starc in. With the lokes of the other bowlers like Chetan Sakariya, Vaibhav Arora and Harshit Rana. Kolkata will bounce back.
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In the Squad the Skipper Shreyas Iyer will come back as Delhi and Kolkata will both resume with their old Captains, Iyer and Pant. Shreyas fought with the back Injury. His comeback will make Nitesh Rana will make no.4 more aggressive in this league. Following this Rinku Singh and Rana will be a deadly duo in this season. As Rinku was the highest scorer for the side and was fire in the last season. The Kolkata Knight Riders will arrive strategically sorted this time around.
The line up is revised after the return of the slogger, with the captaincy and leading ability of KKR after Gautam Gambhir. Iyer with his prowess take KKR to next level. The line up will look like with the big names Mitchell Starc, Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh and Andre Russell will give the back bone to the squad.
Mujeeb Ur Rahman will named in the squad after Ireland series but there are still some confirmations needed .
As according to the auction buys what options KKR portrays in the line up.
Kolkata Knight Riders Team Preview For TATA IPL 2024
IPL 2024 Auction buys: KS Bharat, Chetan Sakariya, Mitchell Starc, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Gus Atkinson (replaced by Chameera), Sakib Hussain, Phil Salt (Replacement for Jason Roy).
Predicted XI: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc, Chetan Sakariya, Varun Chakravarthy, Vaibhav Arora.
Squad: Shreyas Iyer, K.S. Bharat, Rahmanullah GUrbaz (AFG), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford (WI), Manish Pandey, Andre Russell (WI), Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine (WI), Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc (AUS), Dushmantha Chameera (SL), Sakib Hussain, Mujeeb Ur Rahman (AFG).
