Kolkata Knight Riders Will face Sunrisers Hyderabad at their home ground, Eden Gardens, Kolkata on 24th March.

Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL Auction 2019

KKR only retained 13 players from their IPL 2018 squad and completed their IPL 12 squad with the addition of 8 players. In the IPL Auction which was held in Jaipur in December 2018, KKR bought 8 players. KKR bought Carlos Brathwaite of Windies team for the massive amount of 5cr. IPL KKR team 2019 is all set to play the IPL 12 season with 7 Batsmen, 5 all-rounders, 2 Spinners and 7 Pacers.

Kolkata Knight Riders IPL 2019 Squad

KRR Team For IPL 2019 Batsmen Allrounders Spinners Pacers Chris Lynn Andre Russell Kuldeep Yadav Sandeep Warrier Shubman Gill Sunil Narine Piyush Chawla Prasidh Krishna Dinesh Karthik (wk) Nitish Rana KC Cariappa Lockie Ferguson* Robin Uthappa (wk) Carlos Brathwaite* Anrich Noetje* Joe Denly* Shrikant Mundhe* Harry Gurney* Nikhil Naik (wk)* Prithvi Raj Yarra* Rinku Singh

– * Denotes the Players purchased from the IPL Auction 2019

Strengths of Team KKR

The spin attack of KKR is their biggest strength. Sunil Narine and Kuldeep Yadav bowl in tandem and it just doesn’t get better than this, having two of the best at the same time. In the batting department too, they possess good power.