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IPL 2026 · KKR · 25 players

Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata · Eden Gardens

Captain

Ajinkya Rahane

Head coach

Abhishek Nayar

Titles

3 (2012, 2014, 2024)

Ownership

Knight Riders Group / Red Chillies

Full squad

IPL 2026 list including published replacements. Auction sheets can still shift mid-window.

Batters (6)

  • Ajinkya Rahane

    Captain

  • Rinku Singh

  • Angkrish Raghuvanshi

  • Manish Pandey

  • Ramandeep Singh

  • Rahul Tripathi

Wicket-keepers (4)

  • Luvnith Sisodia

  • Finn Allen

    Overseas

  • Tejasvi Singh

  • Tim Seifert

    Overseas

All-rounders (7)

  • Rovman Powell

    Overseas

  • Anukul Roy

  • Sunil Narine

    Overseas

  • Cameron Green

    Overseas

  • Sarthak Ranjan

  • Daksh Kamra

  • Rachin Ravindra

    Overseas

Bowlers (8)

  • Vaibhav Arora

  • Varun Chakaravarthy

  • Navdeep Saini

  • Umran Malik

  • Prashant Solanki

  • Kartik Tyagi

  • Saurabh Dubey

  • Blessing Muzarabani

    Overseas