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The Indian Premier League is gearing up for Season 17. IPL mini auction will be held on 19th of this month in Dubai. On the other hand, all the franchises are busy preparing their players. Also the players who did not make much impact have already been got rid of. So KKR franchise has released a total of 12 players before this year’s IPL. Also, 15 players were attached. This means that KKR is likely to buy a total of 10 players through this mini auction. So it can be said that new faces will appear in the KKR team this time. Apart from this, the KKR management has taken a key decision on the captaincy. The team management has decided to hand over the captaincy to Shreyas Iyer, who made a re-entry after injury and failed in the World Cup. It means Shreyas will lead the Kolkata Knight Riders in the upcoming season. Nitish Rana, who captained KKR last season, will be seen as the vice-captain this time. Shreyas Iyer will lead the Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL 2022 season. But the KKR team was not very impressive. But captain Iyer scored 401 runs and became one of the leading scorers in the tournament. But Shreyas Iyer withdrew from IPL in 2023 due to injury. So Nitish Rana was selected as the new captain of Kolkata Knight Riders.
Players retained by Kolkata Knight Riders:
Shreyas Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaj, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty, Sangeet Roy, Rinku Singh, Vaibhav Arora, Suyash Singh, Mandeep, Kulyaj Sharma, Rosen Sharma, .
Kolkata Knight Riders Released Players:
Shakib Al Hasan, Liton Das, Arya Desai, David Veeja, Shardul Thakur, Narayan Jagadeesan, Mandeep Singh, Kulwant Khejrolia, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Johnson Charles.
Nitish as vice captain..
Shreyas Iyer reappointed as KKR captain.
Nitish Rana to be the Vice Captain. pic.twitter.com/Np7cwMSZis
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) December 14, 2023
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