KKR Team 2025 Players List: KKR bought Venkatesh Iyer again in the IPL 2025 mega auction with 23.75 crore of money to make his batting core strong in IPL 2025, with wicketkeeper-batters Rahmanullah Gurbaz for Rs 2 crore and Quinton de Kock for Rs 3.6 crore.
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KKR IPL Auction 2025: Kolkata Knight Riders had entered the IPL mega auction 2025 with an amount of 51 crore. After bidding till 23.75 crore, finally KKR brought up Venkatesh Iyer in their squad. They make their all-rounder core very strong, with Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, and Moin Ali in their squad.
In their bowling lineup, they built one of the strongest bowling lineups for the IPL 2025. They bought Harshit Rana, Umran Malik and Vaibhav Arora with a pace firepower Anrich Nortje and Spencer Johnsan. Varun Chakravarthy and Mayank Markande will be lead KKR’s spin department in IPL season 18.
KKR Retained Players 2025: In the KKR team 2025 players list, they retained six players ahead of IPL season 18, with Sunil Narine (12 crore), Andre Russell (12 crore), Rinku Singh (14 crore), Varun Chakravarthy (12 crore), Harshit Rana, and Ramandeep Singh with 4 crore each.
Also read: Know the KKR Squad 2025 with price and Kolkata Knight Riders Players List in IPL Auction 2025
KKR Team 2025 Players List |
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Players
|
Type
|
Base
|
Sold
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Venkatesh Iyer
|
AR | 2.00 | 23.75 | |||
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Rinku Singh (R)
|
BAT | (R) | 13.00 | |||
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Varun Chakravarthy (R)
|
AR | (R) | 12.00 | |||
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Andre Russell
 (R) |
AR | (R) | 12.00 | |||
|
Sunil Narine
(R) |
BOWL | (R) | 12.00 | |||
|
Anrich Nortje
|
BOWL | 2.00 | 6.50 | |||
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Harshit Rana (R)
|
BOWL | (R) | 4.00 | |||
|
Ramandeep Singh (R)
|
AR | (R) | 4.00 | |||
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Quinton de Kock
|
BAT | 2.00 | 3.60 | |||
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Angkrish Raghuvanshi
|
BAT | 0.30 | 3.00 | |||
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Spencer Johnson
|
BOWL | 2.00 | 2.80 | |||
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Moeen Ali
|
AR | 2.00 | 2.00 | |||
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Rahmanullah Gurbaz
|
BAT | 2.00 | 2.00 | |||
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Vaibhav Arora
|
BOWL | 0.30 | 1.80 | |||
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Ajinkya Rahane
|
BAT | 1.50 | 1.50 | |||
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Rovman Powell
|
BAT | 1.50 | 1.50 | |||
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Umran Malik
|
BOWL | 0.75 | 0.75 | |||
|
Manish Pandey
|
BAT | 0.75 | 0.75 | |||
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Anukul Roy
|
AR | 0.30 | 0.40 | |||
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Luvnith Sisodia
|
BAT | 0.30 | 0.30 | |||
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Mayank Markande
|
BOWL | 0.30 | 0.30 | |||
– Foreign players
Strengths of KKR in IPL 2025 |
- Strong Batting Core: With experienced players like Quinton de Kock and Rahmanullah Gurbaz, KKR’s top order is massively solid.Moin Ali and Venkatesh Iyer add power in the middle-order batting.
- All-rounder: KKR has built a well-decent All-rounder core for IPL 2025, with all-rounders like his old player Andre Russell and Sunil Narine, with Venkatesh Iyer and Ramandeep Singh giving KKR flexibility in their playing XI.
- Pacers: In IPL season 18, Kolkata Knight Riders bought Anrich Nortje and Spencer Johnsan for the leaders of the pace attack, along with Harshit Rana and Umran Malik.
- Spinners: Varun Chakravarthy and Mayank Markande will play as the spinners for the Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL season 18.
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