Kolkata Knight Riders or KKR, as they are popularly known, is one of the most successful as well as popular team of the IPL. Although their performance in the last few years have really been disappointing but they did have managed to lift the IPL trophy for a couple of times and one can always expect some exciting matches and unexpected results from them at any time.
Table of Contents
Kolkata Knight Riders Team 2021 – KKR Vivo IPL 14 Squad List
- Andre Russell
- Chris Green
- Dinesh Karthik
- Eoin Morgan
- Harry Gurney
- Kamlesh Nagarkoti
- Kuldeep Yadav
- Lachie Ferguson
- Manimaran Siddharth
- Nikhil Naik
- Nitish Rana
- Pat Cummins
- Prasidh Krishna
- Pravin Tambe
- Rahul Tripathi
- Rinku Singh
- Sandeep Warrier
- Shivam Mavi
- Shubman Gill
- Siddhesh Lad
- Sunil Narine
- Tom Banton
- Varun Chakravarthy
Kolkata Knight Riders Team History and Records
Kolkata Knight Riders won IPL 2 times. Although their performance in the last few years have really been disappointing and they have even struggled to make it to the semifinals and have been eliminated in the league stage often, but still their overall team is good and the brand value exceeds hundred million dollar mark.
Sunil Narayan stands the record for taking maximum number of wickets in IPL belongs to Kolkata Knight Riders as well. The team was successful captain by Gautam Gambhir in last couple of seasons. This time my responsibility is on the shoulders of veteran Dinesh Kartik. He has represented India enough and Kolkata Knight Riders hopes to benefit from his experience.
Kolkata Knight Riders Home Ground
Eden Gardens is the home ground for Kolkata Knight Riders. Needless to say, it is obviously one of the most popular cricket sports ground of the world and its second largest in terms of seating capacity and can easily maintained crowd of over 90000 spectators which gives a great home advantage to Kolkata Knight Riders whenever they play on the home ground.
Despite all these facts, there is something wrong with management level and team selection that they have struggled to perform in the last few seasons as they should. They do have good players like Andre Russell, Pat Cummis, Kuldeep Yadav and young guns like Shumbham Gill, but KKR still look far away from a balanced team..Shahrukh Khan has been trying hard to bargain players into the team and this time they have included quite a few new players and unknown names and their put their money on it. Let us hope that Kolkata Knight Riders perform better than they have done in the last couple of seasons and their at least maintain their champions spirit that have won them IPL on a couple of occasions.
What to expect from Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2021?
Present problem with Kolkata Knight Riders seems to be that they have been missing big names of late. In the past, KKR was associated with some international players that had experience and great records in IPL and in short format of cricket. However, right now the team looks really new with no superstar or somebody who can really change the game in the favor seems to be missing in the team. Kolkata Knight Riders needs to work on this and find out some match winners in the team if they want to perform well and dream of winning their third IPL trophy.