KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS (KKR) SQUAD ANALYSIS:
1) IPL PERFORMANCE OVER THE YEARS
(i) Results
2008 - 6th
2009 - 8th
2010 - 6th
2011 - 4th
2012 - Champions
2013 - 7th
2014 - Champions
2015 - 5th
2016 - 4th
2017 - 3rd
2018 - 3rd
2019 - 5th
2020 - 5th
2021 - Runner-Up
2022 - 7th
2023 - 7th
2024 - Champions
(ii) Overall Win Percentage
253 - 129w/123l/1nr (51.2%)
(iii) Head To Head Win Percentage
CSK - 30 - 11w/19l (37.9%)
DC - 32 - 16w/16l (50%)
GT - 3 - 1w/2l (33.3%)
LSG - 3 - 0w/3l (0%)
MI - 32 - 9w/23l (28.1%)
PBKS - 32 - 21w/11l (65.56%)
RR - 27 - 14w/13l (51.9%)
RCB - 33 - 19w/14l (57.6%)
SRH - 25 - 16w/9l (64%)
(iv) Home Ground
Eden Gardens, Kolkata - 81 - 47w/34l (58%)
2) PLAYERS IN-CHARGE FOR 2025
(i) Captain - Ajinkya Rahane
(ii) Vice Captain - Venkatesh Iyer
(iii) Head Coach - Chandrakant Pandit
(iv) Assistant Coach - Ottis Gibson
(v) Bowling Coach - Bharat Arun
(vi) Mentor - Dwayne Bravo
3) OVERSEAS PLAYERS
(i) Sunil Narine
(ii) Andre Russell
(iii) Spencer Johnson
(iv) Quinton De Kock
(v) Rahmanullah Gurbaz
(vi) Moeen Ali
(vii) Anrich Nortje
(viii) Rovman Powell
4) SQUAD INFO WITH RECENT PERFORMANCES
Probable XII (including Impact Player)
1) Sunil Narine - LHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 22r 1w, 12r 0w, 2r 2w, 0w, 1r 0w, 13r 0w, 1r 1w, 7r 0w, 0w, 1w
2) Quinton De Kock (WK) - LHB
Last 10 - 16, 0, 5, 43, 4, 21, 55, 15
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Rahmanullah Gurbaz
3) Ajinkya Rahane (C) - RHB, RM
Last 10 - 16, 12, 31, 108, 96, 12, 16, 37, 98, 84, 95, 22
4) Venkatesh Iyer - LHB, RMF
Last 10 - 42, 80*, 4r 0w, 5, 10*, 5r 0w, 18r 1w, 17r 1w, 2w, 38r 2w, 27r 1w
5) Manish Pandey - RHB, RM
Last 10 - 30, 10, 42, 30*, 5, 6, 36*, 0, 30*, 56, 9
6) Rinku Singh - LHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 9, 30, 6r 1w, 36r 2w, 1, 55, 10, 27*
7) Andre Russell - RHB, RF
Last 10 - 4r 0w, 0, 9r 0w, 3, 3r 1w, 6, 37*, 12, 6, 24*
8) Ramandeep Singh - RHB, RM
Last 10 - 16, 0, 2r 0w, 13r 0w, 80, 0w, 22r 0w, 2, 7, 0w, 8r 2w
9) Harshit Rana - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 1w, 3w, 13r 2w, 1w, 3w, 3w, 0w, 4w, 3w, 7r 1w, 5w, 59r 2w
10) Vaibhav Arora - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 32r 0w, 1w, 2w, 2w, 28r 5w, 1r 3w, 17r 0w, 0w, 2w, 11r 0w
11) Varun Chakravarthy - RHB, Legbreak
Last 10 - 2w, 2w, 5w, 1w, 2w, 2w, 5w, 2w, 3w, 18r 5w
12) Spencer Johnson - LHB, LFM
Last 10 - 2w, 0w, 2w, 2w, 3w, 27r 0w, 3w, 1w, 0w, 6r 4w
BENCH
13) Angkrish Raghuvanshi - RHB, LAO
Last 10 - 0, 56, 1, 50*, 19, 6r 0w, 41*, 16, 21, 6
14) Rovman Powell - RHB, RM
Last 10 - 63, 20, 1, 32*, 25, 28
15) Moeen Ali - LHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 17r 0w, 0r 1w, 14r 0w, 0r 0w, 0w, 1r 0w, 2w, 5r 0w, 20r 0w, 51r 0w
16) Rahmanullah Gurbaz - RHB, WK
Last 10 - 0, 6, 10, 110, 7, 5, 1, 1, 6, 7
17) Anrich Nortje - RHB, RF
Last 10 - 1w, 0w, 3w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 0w
18) Anukul Roy - LHB, LAO
Last 10 - 46r 0w, 0r 2w, 1w, 1r 0w, 8r 4w, 52r 1w, 3w, 4r 1w, 32r 1w, 17r 2w, 1w, 91r 1w
19) Umran Malik - RHB, RF
Last 10 - 0w, 0w, 7r 2w, 7r 1w, 1w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 3w, 0w
20) Mayank Markande - RHB, Legbreak
Last 10 - 9, 31r 1w, 12, 27r 3w, 0w, 0w, 3w, 1w, 1w, 1w, 0w, 0w
21) Luvnith Sisodia - LHB, WK
Last 10 - 41, 10, 0, 56, 23, 26, 62*, 39, 4, 39
Safe C/VC Choices
Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy
5) STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
(i) A quality bowling unit - With Spencer, Russell, Harshit, Varun and Narine as their core frontline bowlers, they get a high quality attack, one with all variations needed for a balanced unit, and one that can break partnerships at crucial times, and one that has the ability to defend below par totals.
(ii) Defending Champions - They come into this season as the defending champions and although have lost their captain Shreyas Iyer in the auction, they have replaced him with Rahane who is an equally experienced player and an equally good captaincy choice, especially with the amount of IPL and domestic captaincy experience he comes with. They have retained their core from the previous season, and have had a really good auction to replace the ones they've lost. On paper, they seem to be a good enough unit to be able to defend their title out here.
(iii) Like to Like Backups available - Quinton-Gurbaz, Narine-Moeen, Russell-Powell and Spencer-Nortje. Possibly, this is the only team who have their 4 core overseas players and have perfect backups to those 4 in case of injuries, poor form or tactical changes. Even in their Indian unit, having a pacer in Umran, spinners in Anukul and Markande, a top order batter in Raghuvanshi, as well as a keeping option in Sisodia, their bench looks good and with potential backups and replacements to their ideal XII.
(iv) Loss of Gambhir as head coach - Gambhir is probably the only one who brings out the batsman in Sunil Narine as an opener. Obviously, with him being the National coach, there is a change in the coaching staff, and although Bravo has joined as a mentor, he brings a different dynamic to the Russell-Narine-Powell Caribbean trip, but what Gambhir has done with the team in the past stays different, and it will be interesting to see how the new coaching staff brings this team out this season.
6) STATS FROM OVER THE YEARS (as part of any team before this)
(i) Top Run Scorers
-> Ajinkya Rahane - Runs (4642), Avg (30.14) - 185M/171I
-> Manish Pandey - Runs (3850), Avg (29.17) - 171M/159I
-> Quinton De Kock - Runs (3157), Avg (31.26) - 107M/107I
-> Andre Russell - Runs (2484), Avg (29.22) - 126M/105I
-> Sunil Narine - Runs (1534), Avg (17.04) - 176M/110I
-> Venkatesh Iyer - Runs (1326), Avg (31.57) - 50M/49I
-> Moeen Ali - Runs (1162), Avg (22.78) - 67M/57I
(ii) Top Wicket Takers
-> Sunil Narine - Wickets (180), SR (22.64) - 177M/175I
-> Andre Russell - Wickets (115), SR (14.76) - 127M/112I
-> Varun Chakravarthy - Wickets (83), SR (19.13) - 71M/70I
-> Anrich Nortje - Wickets (60), SR (17.57) - 46M/46I
-> Mayank Markande - Wickets (37), SR (19.46) - 37M/37I
-> Moeen Ali - Wickets (35), SR (21.66) - 67M/52I
7) PREDICTIONS FOR THIS SEASON
(i) Top Run Scorer
Ajinkya Rahane/Venkatesh Iyer
(ii) Top Wicket Taker
Varun Chakravarthy
(iii) Most Valuable Player
Sunil Narine
(iv) Points Table Position
Top 4
8) C/VC Choices
Safe - Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy
GL - Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana
Differential Pick - Ajinkya Rahane
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