KKR Retained Players 2025: Kolkata Knight Riders has released the list of its retained players for IPL 2025. Captain Shreyas Iyer, who made Kolkata the champion last year i.e. in IPL 2024, has been released. KKR has retained a total of 6 players for the upcoming season.
Kolkata Knight Riders have retained Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh and Harshit Rana for IPL 2025. KKR has retained 4 capped players and 2 uncapped players.
Rinku Singh, who was worth Rs 55 lakh, has been retained by KKR for Rs 13 crore. Varun Chakraborty has been retained for Rs 12 crore, Sunil Narayan for Rs 12 crore, Andre Russell for Rs 12 crore, Harshit Rana for Rs 4 crore and Ramandin Singh has also been retained for Rs 4 crore.
Each team has a purse value of Rs 120 crore for IPL 2025. Out of this, all the teams had to retain a maximum of six players. Kolkata Knight Riders have retained all their 6 players. KKR has retained Rinku Singh for Rs 13 crore, Varun Chakraborty for Rs 12 crore, Sunil Narine for Rs 12 crore, Andre Russell for Rs 12 crore, Harshit Rana for Rs 4 crore and Ramandeep Singh for Rs 4 crore. .
Kolkata Knight Riders have spent around Rs 57 crore out of Rs 120 crore on retaining 6 players. Now KKR will have Rs 63 crore in the mega auction of IPL 2025.
Kolkata Knight Riders has released its captain Shreyas Iyer. In such a situation, now KKR will have to buy the captain from the auction, or hand over the command to one of the retained players. Earlier it was being said that KKR wants to make Suryakumar Yadav the captain, but Surya will now stay in Mumbai. In such a situation, KKR will have to find a new captain.
