The Knights have signed 8 players in the IPL mini-auction at just 4.9 Crores. Here is the IPL Auction 2023: Kolkata Knight Riders Auction Picks, KKR Full Squad, Playing XI, and players list with price
KKR were having the least amount of value in their purse before coming into the auction. They had just 6.55 Crore in their purse as they spent most of their value on the draft picks of Shardul Thakur and Lockie Ferguson.
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) IPL 2023 Squad, Auction Players List With Price, Team Squad And Playing 11
They invested their purse value very smartly and picked 5 uncapped Indian players at just 2.4 Crores. KKR only had 2 spots left for the overseas players and their purse value also didn’t allow them to afford expensive overseas stars in their team.
David Wiese became the first Namibian player to play in the IPL. Though he has already represented RCB back in 2016 he was a South African at that time.
IPL Auction 2023: Kolkata Knight Riders Top Picks
Shakib Al Hassan 1.5 Crore
The Bangladeshi all-rounder will reunite with his former team KKR. It will be tough for him to make his place in this playing XI as KKR is the team that depends moreover on their overseas players. He will be fighting for the place with spin wizard Sunil Narine.
IPL Auction 2023: Kolkata Knight Riders Auction Picks
Players bought at the 2023 auction: N. Jagadeesan (INR 90 lakh), Vaibhav Arora (INR 60 lakh), Suyash Sharma (INR 20 lakh), David Wiese (INR 1 crore), Kulwant Khejroliya (INR 20 lakh), Litton Das (INR 50 lakh), Mandeep Singh (INR 50 lakh), Shakib Al Hasan (INR 1.5 crore).
Purse Remaining: INR 1.65 crore
Total player slots available: 3
Overseas slots available: 0
KKR FULL SQUAD FOR IPL 2023
The knights bought an exciting wicketkeeper batter in drafts from Afghanistan in name of Rahmanullah Gurbaz.
Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, N. Jagadeesan, Vaibhav Arora, Suyash Sharma, David Wiese, Kulwant Khejroliya, Litton Das, Mandeep Singh, Shakib Al Hasan.
Probable XI
Venkatesh Iyer, Rahmanullah Gurbaz(WK), Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer(C), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Umesh Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Varun Chakravarthy