2025 Kolkata Knight Riders season


The 2025 season was the 18th season for the Indian Premier League cricket franchise Kolkata Knight Riders. They were one of the ten teams that competed in the 2025 Indian Premier League. They were the defending champions. Ahead of the season, Ajinkya Rahane was announced as the captain, replacing Shreyas Iyer. The team was coached by Chandrakant Pandit.
The Kolkata Knight Riders were the fourth team to be eliminated from the 2025 IPL and finished the season in 8th place with five wins from 14 matches. The player with the most runs was Rahane at 390, and with the most wickets were Varun Chakravarthy and Vaibhav Arora tied at 17.

Pre-season

The 2025 Indian Premier League was the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League, a professional Twenty20 cricket league held in India, organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. The Kolkata Knight Riders were the defending champions having won their third title in the previous season. The tournament featured ten teams competing in 74 matches from 22 March to 3 June 2025 across 13 venues in India. Kolkata played all their home matches at Eden Gardens.

Player retention

Franchises were allowed to retain a maximum of six players from their squad, including a maximum of five recent international players. Franchises were required to submit their retention lists before 31 October 2024. Kolkata retained six players, but did not retain their prior captain Shreyas Iyer.
No.PlayerSalary
1Rinku Singh
2Varun Chakravarthy
3Sunil Narine
4Andre Russell
5Ramandeep Singh
6Harshit Rana

BattersWicket-keepersAll-roundersFast bowlersSpin bowlers

  • K. S. Bharat
  • Phil Salt
  • Rahmanullah Gurbaz
  • Anukul Roy
  • Sherfane Rutherford
  • Venkatesh Iyer
  • Chetan Sakariya
  • Dushmantha Chameera
  • Mitchell Starc
  • Sakib Hussain
  • Vaibhav Arora
  • Allah Ghazanfar
  • Suyash Sharma

    • Auction

    The season's auction took place in November 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The auction purse for each franchise was set at, with franchises deducting an amount from the purse for every retained player. Kolkata had a purse remaining of. Franchises that did not retain six players, were allowed Right-to-Match cards at the auction for each player not retained. Kolkata had no cards left. Kolkata bought fifteen players in the auction, including ten capped players and five overseas players.

    Squad

    • Players with international caps as of start of 2025 IPL are listed in bold.
    • Ages are as of.
    • Withdrawn players are indicated by a dagger symbol and placed at the bottom of the table.
    S/NNameNationalityBirth dateBatting styleBowling styleSalaryNotes
    2Anrich NortjeRight-handedRight-arm fastOverseas
    3Ajinkya RahaneRight-handedRight-arm mediumCaptain
    9Manish PandeyRight-handedRight-arm medium
    10Moeen AliLeft-handedRight-arm off breakOverseas
    11Mayank MarkandeRight-handedRight-arm leg break
    12Andre RussellRight-handedRight-arm fast-mediumOverseas
    13Quinton de KockLeft-handedOverseas
    14Vaibhav AroraRight-handedRight-arm fast medium
    18Angkrish RaghuvanshiRight-handedRight-arm off break
    19Ramandeep SinghRight-handedRight-arm medium
    21Rahmanullah GurbazRight-handedRight-arm medium fastOverseas
    22Harshit RanaRight-handedRight-arm fast medium
    25Venkatesh IyerLeft-handedRight-arm medium
    29Varun ChakravarthyRight-handedRight-arm leg break
    35Rinku SinghLeft-handedRight-arm off break
    45Anukul RoyLeft-handedSlow left-arm orthodox
    47Spencer JohnsonLeft-handedLeft-arm fastOverseas
    55Chetan SakariyaLeft-handedLeft-arm medium fastReplacement
    73Luvnith SisodiaLeft-handed
    74Sunil NarineLeft-handedRight-arm off breakOverseas
    Shivam ShuklaRight-handedRight-arm leg breakTemporary replacement
    52Rovman Powell Right-handedRight-arm mediumOverseas; Withdrawn
    Umran Malik Right-handedRight-arm fastWithdrawn

    Support staff

    In September 2024, it was announced that Chennai Super Kings's bowling coach, Dwayne Bravo, would join Kolkata in a mentorship role replacing Gautam Gambhir. In March 2025, Ottis Gibson and Carl Crowe joined Kolkata in an assistant coach and bowling coach roles replacing Abhishek Nayar, Omkar Salvi and Ryan ten Doeschate.
    PositionName
    Head coachChandrakant Pandit
    Assistant coachOttis Gibson
    Bowling coachBharat Arun
    Carl Crowe
    MentorDwayne Bravo

    • Source: ''Wisden''

    League stage

    Fixtures

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    Statistics

    RunsPlayer
    390Ajinkya Rahane
    300Angkrish Raghuvanshi
    246Sunil Narine
    206Rinku Singh
    167Andre Russell

    General references

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