The Kolkata Knight Riders (also known by the acronym KKR) are a franchise cricket team representing the city of Kolkata in the Indian Premier League. The franchise is owned by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, actress Juhi Chawla and her spouse Jay Mehta.
They are one of the eight teams that are competing in the 2017 Indian Premier League. They will be captained by Gautam Gambhir, Jacques Kallis is head coach in the place of Trevor Bayliss who is coach for England cricket team, while Simon Katich is the new assistant coach, Lakshmipathy Balaji is the new assistant Bowling coach.
The Knight Riders qualified for the Champions League Twenty20 in 2011, 2012 and 2014. The latter was the last edition of the tournament before it being permanently called off. The team was eliminated in the group stage in 2011 and 2012, but finished as runners-up in the ultimate season.
Coach – Jacques Kallis
Captain – Gautam Gambhir
Ground(s) – Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Currents Sqaud ‘Kolkata Knight Riders’ –
Note –
- denotes a player who is currently unavailable for selection.
- denotes a player who is unavailable for rest of the season.
- Manish Pandey
- Robin Uthppa
- Gautam Gambhir
- Chris Lynn
- Suryakumar Yadav
- Darren Bravo
- Rovman Powell
- Ishank Jaggi
- Andre Russell
- Yusuf Pathan
- Shakib Al Hasan
- Chris Woakes
- Rishi Dhawan
- Colin de Grandhomme
- Sheldon Jackson
- Ankit Rajpoot
- Kuldeep Yadav
- Umesh Yadav
- Piyush Chawla
- Sunil Narine
- Trent Boult
- Nathan Coulter-Nile
- Sayan Ghosh
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