One of the most popular and loved IPL Franchise is Kolkata Knight Riders. The Kolkata based franchise is owned by the popular Indians celebrities. KKR is owned by Bollywood King Shahrukh Khan, Bollywood Actress Juhi Chawla and her spouse Jay Mehta.
In IPL 2012, KKR defeated Chennai Super Kings in final to win their first IPL title and in IPL 2014 they defeated Kings XI Punjab to win their second IPL title. Kolkata Knight Riders have won two IPL titles till now.
If Kolkata Knight Riders clinch the IPL 2019 title then they will equal the record held by IPL franchises Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians of the maximum number of times IPL champions.
Till now, Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians have won three IPL titles each. It will be interesting to see if KKR could manage to win their third IPL title or not.
The fresh squad for the Kolkata Knight Riders IPL 2019 include 21 players that include seven batsmen including 3 wicket-keeper batsmen. It has five all-rounders, two spinners and seven pacers. The full list of players is as follows:
Batsmen | All-Rounders | Spinners | Pacers |
Dinesh Karthik (WK) | Andre Russell | Piyush Chawla | Prasidh Krishna |
Chris Lynn | Sunil Narine | Kuldeep Yadav | Shivam Mavi |
Robin Uthappa (WK) | Nitish Rana | Kamlesh Nagarkoti | |
Shubman Gill | Shrikant Mundhe | Yarra Prithviraj | |
Rinku Singh | Carlos Brathwaite | Anrich Nortje | |
Nikhil Naik (WK) | Harry Gurney | ||
Joe Denly | Lockie Ferguson |
Top players in the Kolkata Knight Riders squad for upcoming IPL season are Dinesh Karthik, Shubman Gill, Robin Uthappa, Andre Russell, Kuldeep Yadav, Piyush Chawla, and Sunil Narine. The KKR team is lead by Dinesh Karthik and trained by Jacques Kallis.
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