IPL 2021 Auction Preview: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Squad Details

Kolkata Knight Riders should have done better with the talent at their disposal during IPL 2020. They finished the league stage in fifth position, tied on 14 points with Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad, and missed out on a playoff spot due to net run-rate: a deficit of 0.042. It has been a bit of a trend for KKR, that they struggle for consistency over the course of a campaign and end up underachieving.

Dinesh Karthik led KKR in the first seven matches, before handing over the reins to England’s Eoin Morgan. The move did not bear great results on paper, but it is the path the franchise is sticking to for the upcoming campaign.

Results in last three seasons

Season	League stage finish	Playoff result
IPL 2018	3rd	Lost Qualifier 2
IPL 2019	5th	––
IPL 2020	5th	––

Players released after IPL 2020: Chris Green, Harry Gurney, M Siddharth, Nikhil Naik, Siddhesh Lad, Tom Banton

Player traded in/out: None

KKR squad for IPL 2021 ahead of auction

Batsmen	Bowlers	Wicketkeepers	Allrounders
Eoin Morgan	Kamlesh Nagarkoti	Dinesh Karthik	Andre Russell
Shubman Gill	Kuldeep Yadav		Sunil Narine
Nitish Rana	Lockie Ferguson		Pat Cummins
Rinku Singh	Prasidh Krishna
Rahul Tripathi	Sandeep Warrier
	Shivam Mavi
	Varun Chakravarthy

It’s becoming a bit of a trend for KKR to go into an auction with not much funds left in comparison to the slots left to fill. They have not bothered to fill up their full quota of 25 places and that is likely to be the case again.