Kolkata Knight Riders’ CEO and Managing Director Venky Mysore said that the unit was happy to have retained the core of their team for the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League. Reacting to the developments of the day, Mysore said, “We are very happy to have been able to retain our entire squad. Barring some fine tunings we have retained the same squad that we had last season, obviously led by captain Eoin Morgan, supported by DK”
Naming the players like Australian pacer Pat Cummins, New Zealand quick Lockie Ferguson, and other players including the likes of Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, and Varun Chakravarthy he said that it was pleasing to have the same guys turning out to do better this season.
“Retaining the nucleus makes our squad a very strong one, very balanced one. It was a very unfortunate last season that we missed out on the run rate and now we will regroup and come stronger this year,” Mysore added.
Saying that he was happy with the current squad, the CEO didn’t rule out the fact that they would try and get a few more players to fit the bill in the mini-auction. “We will have some opportunity at the mini-auction to be held a little later and we will try and fine-tune a bit more then, for now, we are really looking forward to IPL 2021,” he said.
Players not retained by KKR Tom Banton, Chris Green, Ali Khan, Nikhil Naik, Siddharth Manimaran, Harry Gurney, and Siddhesh Lad
KKR retained squad Eoin Morgan (ENG) Dinesh Karthik, Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Rahul Tripathi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson (NZ), Pat Cummins (AUS), Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy, Andre Russell (WI), Sunil Narine (WI), Tim Seifert (NZ)
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