Kolkata Knight Riders IPL 2025 Retentions: Checklist Of Players Retained And Launched

IPL 2024 champions Kolkata Knight Riders have introduced their retentions for the upcoming mega auctions. KKR put an finish to rumours, conserving maintain of star West Indian all-rounder Andre Russell. However, IPL 2024-winning captain Shreyas Iyer was not retained by KKR. As per BCCI’s rule, all of the ten franchises have been requested to submit the ultimate checklist of their retained gamers by Thursday, October 31. KKR are certainly one of solely two franchises who’ve retained all six gamers earlier than the mega public sale, that means they are going to haven’t any Right to Match (RTM) playing cards.

KKR CEO Venky Mysore emphasised after the retentions announcement that the process will not be a “one-way” course of, hinting that the choice to half methods with Shreyas Iyer could have been one taken by the participant himself.

Having created a star-studded aspect en path to a dominant IPL 2024 title, retaining a most of six gamers was at all times going to be a troublesome job for the Knight Riders.

Overseas stars Phil Salt and Mitchell Starc have been let go, whereas Indian regulars Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana and Vaibhav Arora have additionally not been retained.

KKR managed to retain their six gamers for a mixed whole of solely Rs 57 crore. However, Rs 69 crore will likely be deducted from their public sale price range, as that’s the designated quantity for 4 capped retentions and two uncapped retentions (18 + 14 + 11 + 18 + 4 + 4 = 69).

This leaves KKR with an public sale purse of Rs 51 cr, having already sealed six gamers from their title-winning squad.

Pacer Harshit Rana and all-rounder Ramandeep Singh, each of whom may make their India debuts in November, have been retained as uncapped gamers. 

PLAYERS RETAINED:

1. Rinku Singh (Rs 12 cr)

2. Varun Chakravarthhy (Rs 12 cr)

3. Sunil Narine (Rs 12 cr)

4. Andre Russell (Rs 12 cr)

5. Harshit Rana (Rs 4 cr – uncapped)

6. Ramandeep Singh (Rs 4 cr – uncapped)

AUCTION BUDGET: Rs 51 cr

RTMs out there: 0

Players launched: Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Shreyas Iyer, Jason Roy, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, Vaibhav Arora, KS Bharat, Chetan Sakariya, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Gus Atkinson, Sakib Hussain.