KKR Retained Players 2025: Defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders will not dare to shake their core players’ combination after a successful campaign last year. KKR has won the IPL title a total of three times in the cash-rich league tournament’s history – 2012, 2014, and 2024.
Latest news:
- KKR appointed former West Indies allrounder Dwayne Bravo as their mentor for the IPL 2025 season.
KKR Retained Players 2025 with Released
BCCI planned to host the IPL 2025 mega auction on November 24 and 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia while teams announced their retained players list on 31 October 2024.
Though this year’s auction was planned to be hosted outside India, fans can still enjoy the IPL 2025 auction live streaming from their home.
According to the new IPL 2025 retention rules released by BCCI, each team can retain six players from their existing squad, either via retention or by using the Right to Match (RTM) option.
Kolkata Knight Riders will miss the key person behind their success in the last season. As Gautam Gambhir was named as the head coach of the Indian Men’s cricket team, KKR will miss the service of their former skipper for the IPL 2025 season.
Along with Gambhir, KKR will also miss Abhishek Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate who were also the members of KKR support staff unit last year.
KKR roped former West Indies allrounder Dwayne Bravo to fill the vacant mentor post for the IPL 2025 season.
Following are the KKR released and retained Players list for the IPL 2025 season:
KKR Retained Players 2025
KKR Retained Players in IPL 2025: Kolkata Knight Riders are unlikely to retain their captain Shreyas Iyer ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction. Following are the complete details of the KKR Retained Players 2025:
| R. No | Player | Price |
| 1 | Rinku Singh | INR 13 CR |
| 2 | Varun Chakravarthy | INR 12 Cr |
| 3 | Sunil Narine | INR 12 Cr |
| 4 | Andre Russell | INR 12 Cr |
| 5 | Ramandeep Singh | INR 4 Cr |
| 6 | Harshit Rana(U) | INR 4 Cr |
Following are the complete details of the IPL 2025 Kolkata Knight Riders retained players’ stats.
- Rinku Singh | Runs – 168; Wickets – 00
- Varun Chakravarthy | Runs – 00; Wickets – 21
- Sunil Narine | Runs – 488; Wickets – 17
- Andre Russell | Runs – 222; Wickets – 19
- Ramandeep Singh | Runs – 125; Wickets – 00
- Harshit Rana | Runs – 00; Wickets – 19
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KKR Released Players 2025
KKR Released Players 2025: Apart from the retained players, Kolkata Knight Riders will release the remaining players and might pick them later in the auction event. Following are the details of the KKR released players list.
- Manish Pandey
- Shreyas Iyer
- Jason Roy
- Nitish Rana
- Andre Russell
- Venkatesh Iyer
- Angkrish Raghuvanshi
- Phil Salt
- K. S. Bharat
- Rahmanullah Gurbaz
- Ramandeep Singh
- Sherfane Rutherford
- Anukul Roy
- Mitchell Starc
- Vaibhav Arora
- Gus Atkinson
- Dushmantha Chameera
- Chetan Sakariya
- Sakib Hussain
- Mujeeb Ur Rahman
- Suyash Sharma
- Allah Ghazanfar
CHECK: IPL 2025 KKR Squad Players List with New Signings in Auction
Kolkata Knight Riders Owner, Home Venue
The Kolkata Knight Riders franchise is owned by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, actress Juhi Chawla, and her spouse Jay Mehta.
Eden Gardens in Kolkata which has a ground capacity of 68000 is the home venue for the Kolkata Knight Riders.[Which Is The Best Stand In Eden Gardens]
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IPL 2025 Auction Date
With the deadline for submitting the retention players list ending by October 31, BCCI planned to hold the IPL 2025 mega auctions on November 24 and 25.
IPL 2025 Auction Venue
The two-day event of the IPL 2025 mega auction will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
IPL 2025 Teams Purse Value
Ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction, BCCI increases the purse value of each team by INR 20 crores over the existing purse value of about INR 100 crores.
The final purse value of the team will be decided right after they submit the retained and released players list for the event. Kolkata Knight Riders Purse Value Before Auction will be 63 Crore without announcing retention and releasing players list.
