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Kolkata Knight Riders IPL 2024 Auction Plan: The Kolkata franchise is gearing up for the IPL 2024 auction. The KKR franchise is under pressure to buy more players in the auction. While other teams need 6 to 8 players, Kolkata Knight Riders team has to choose 12 players at once. To fill these vacant slots, KKR has Rs. 32.7 crores only.
This time the Kolkata franchise has released a total of 12 players from its squad. Most of them are fast bowlers. In such circumstances, there is no doubt that KKR will have to target more fast bowlers in this auction.
KKR dropped star fast bowlers like Locky Ferguson, Shardul Thakur, Tim Southee and Umesh Yadav from their team. Currently there is no good fast bowler in the team except Andre Russell and Vaibhav Arora. In such circumstances, the pressure on the KKR franchise to add at least four or five specialist fast bowlers to the team in the auction to be held on December 19.
Here KKR can focus on foreign fast bowlers like Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Gus Atkinson, Gerald Coetzee, David Willey, Chris Woakes. Two or three Indian fast bowlers should also be included in the team. Bowlers like Harshal Patel can be in this list.
KKR looks a bit balanced in the batting department. However, even here there is a shortage of one or two specialist batsmen. In such a situation, the Kolkata franchise will also have to focus on some good batsmen in the auction. Here, KKR could target one or two key names among foreign batsmen and enter the auction.
List of retained players: Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaj, Shreyas Iyer, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Kusut Roy, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Varun Chakraborty, Jason Roy.
List of Released Players: Shakib Al Hasan, Liton Das, Arya Desai, Narayan Jagadeesan, Mandeep Singh, Kulwant Khejrolia, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Johnson Charles, David Viss.
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