2025 Kolkata Knight Riders season

Kolkata Knight Riders

2025 season
Coach	Chandrakant Pandit
Ground(s)	TBA
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The 2025 season will be the 18th appearance for the Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. They are one of the ten teams competing this year and will enter as the defending champions after defeating the Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets in the previous edition's final, ending a 10-year trophy drought.

Background

Pre-Auction

Retentions

The player retentions were announced by the teams on October 31, 2024. The Kolkata Knight Riders utilized their entire retention capacity and retained six players: four capped and two uncapped. They have a remaining budget of ₹51 crore and no Right-To-Match (RTM) option available.

Knight Riders' Retentions before Mega Auction

Player	Salary
Rinku Singh	₹13 crore (US$1.6 million)
Sunil Narine	₹12 crore (US$1.4 million)
Varun Chakravarthy	₹12 crore (US$1.4 million)
Andre Russell	₹12 crore (US$1.4 million)
Harshit Rana	₹4 crore (US$480,000)
Ramandeep Singh	₹4 crore (US$480,000)

Releases

Kolkata Knight Riders released 17 players ahead of the Mega-Auction, including its title-winning captain, Shreyas Iyer.

Knight Riders' Releases before Mega Auction

Roles	Players
Batters	Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer
Wicket-keepers	KS Bharat, Phil Salt, Rahmanullah Gurbaz
All-rounders	Anukul Roy, Sherfane Rutherford, Venkatesh Iyer
Pacers	Chetan Sakariya, Dushmantha Chameera, Mitchell Starc, Sakib Hussain, Vaibhav Arora
Spinners	Allah Ghazanfar, Suyash Sharma

Support Staff changes

Gautam Gambhir was appointed as the head coach of the Indian cricket team, which prevented him from assisting the Knight Riders in the future. As a result, Dwayne Bravo, who has connections with the Knight Riders family from his time playing for the Trinbago Knight Riders, was appointed as the new mentor. Abhishek Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate also joined Gambhir as the assistant coaches of the Indian team respectively.

Support staff changes of Kolkata Knight Riders

Position	Outgoing	Incoming	Ref.
Mentor	Gautam Gambhir	Dwayne Bravo
Assistant Coach	Abhishek Nayar	TBA
Fielding Coach	Ryan ten Doeschate	TBA

Squad

• Players with international caps are listed in bold.
• Given ages are as of 1 January 2025 (2025-01-01).

Kolkata Knight Riders squad for the 2025 Indian Premier League
No.	Name	Nat.	Birth date and age	Batting style	Bowling style	Signed year	Salary	Notes
Captain
TBA
Batters
35	Rinku Singh		(1997-10-12)12 October 1997 (aged 27)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	₹13 crore (US$1.6 million)
All-rounders
12	Andre Russell		(1988-04-29)29 April 1988 (aged 36)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2014	₹12 crore (US$1.4 million)	Overseas
19	Ramandeep Singh		(1997-10-12)12 October 1997 (aged 27)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	₹4 crore (US$480,000)
Pacers
22	Harshit Rana		(2001-12-22)22 December 2001 (aged 23)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast medium	2022	₹4 crore (US$480,000)
Spinners
29	Varun Chakravarthy		(1991-08-29)29 August 1991 (aged 33)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	2020	₹12 crore (US$1.4 million)
74	Sunil Narine		(1988-05-26)26 May 1988 (aged 36)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2012	₹12 crore (US$1.4 million)	Overseas

Administration and support staff

Position	Name
Head / Director of Cricket	Venky Mysore
Team manager	Wayne Bentley
Head coach	Chandrakant Pandit
Batting coach	TBA
Bowling coach	Bharat Arun
Fielding coach	TBA
Mentor	Dwayne Bravo
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League stage

Points table

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	A/B	Chennai Super Kings	0	0	0	0	0	—
2	A/B	Delhi Capitals	0	0	0	0	0	—
3	A/B	Gujarat Titans	0	0	0	0	0	—
4	A/B	Kolkata Knight Riders	0	0	0	0	0	—
5	A/B	Lucknow Super Giants	0	0	0	0	0	—
6	A/B	Mumbai Indians	0	0	0	0	0	—
7	A/B	Punjab Kings	0	0	0	0	0	—
8	A/B	Rajasthan Royals	0	0	0	0	0	—
9	A/B	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	0	0	0	0	0	—
10	A/B	Sunrisers Hyderabad	0	0	0	0	0	—

First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: ESPNcricinfo

League progression

League progression

Team	Group matches														Playoffs
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Q1/E	Q2	F
Kolkata Knight Riders

Win

Loss

No result

• Note: The total points at the end of each group match are listed.
• Note: Click on the points (group matches) or W/L (playoffs) to see the match summary.

External links

• Official website
• Kolkata Knight Riders on IPLT20 Website
• 2025 IPL Teams at ESPNcricinfo