Highlights | Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) IPL 2024 Auction Retained, Released and New Players List: KKR Buy Manish Pandey At Base Price

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) IPL 2024 Players Auction: Kolkata Knight Riders will the one team to watch out for in the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 season as they have got some major boost in their team. Firstly, the magic man for KKR, Gautam Gambhir has returned to the team which he led to two IPL titles and secondly, captain Shreyas Iyer is back after missing the 2023 season due to injury. After releasing the likes of Shardul Thakur and Lockie Ferguson just after an year of trading them both, KKR still have a pretty strong side.

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The likes of Rinku Singh, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer and more will keen on making an impact for their team. We have had some magical moments from Rinku last season when he smashed Gujarat Titans (GT) bowler Yash Dayal for five sixes in a row to win the game for his team and we can expect many more moments like that from the star who is currently getting chances in Indian colours as well.

This will be the second season for Chandrakant Pandit as the head coach of KKR and he did pretty well in his debut season in which he faced lots of injury trouble within the squad. Nitish Rana did a fair job as skipper of the team last season and now he will be the vice-captain. It will be interesting to see how Shreyas Iyer goes about his business in his first season as KKR captain. Iyer was bought by the franchise for Rs 12.25 crore in 2022. A back injury in April 2023 ruled him out of the season but now he is fully fit and ready for action.

KKR Purse Available: Rs 32.7 crore

KKR Slots Remaining: Twelve (Four Overseas)

Players released by KKR: Litton Das, Shakib Al Hasan, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Narayan Jagadeesan, Mandeep Singh, Aarya Desai, David Wiese, Kulwant Khejroliya, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee and Johnson Charles.

Players retained by KKR: Rinku Singh (55 Lakhs), Varun Chakaravarthy (8 crore), Venkatesh Iyer (8 crore), Nitish Rana (VC) (8 crore), Shreyas Iyer (C) (12.25 crore), Jason Roy (2.8 crore), Sunil Narine (6 crore), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (50 lakh), Suyash Sharma (20 lakh), Anukul Roy (20 lakh), Andre Russell (12 crore), Harshit Rana (20 lakh) and Vaibhav Arora (60 lakh).

Gambhir To Attend Auction

Make no mistake about this, the new mentor and the former captain Gautam Gambhir will be present in Dubai at the KKR table to help pick the best players.

KKR released 12 players ahead of the IPL 2024 Auction and need to fill in the same number of positions.

Full List Of Players Bought By KKR In IPL 2024 Auction

NO.	PLAYER NAME	Auction Price
1	David Wiese	INR 1 crore
2	Venkatesh Iyer	INR 8 crores
3	Anukul Roy	INR 20 lakhs
4	Andre Russell	INR 12 crores
5	Vaibhav Arora	INR 60 lakhs
6	Shakib Al Hasan	INR 1.5 crore
7	Shreyas Iyer (Injured)	INR 12.25 crores
8	Nitish Rana (c)	INR 8 crores
9	Rinku Singh	INR 55 lakhs
10	Mandeep Singh	INR 50 Lakhs
11	Kulwant Khejroliya	INR 20 lakhs
12	Suyash Sharma	INR 20 lakhs
13	Lockie Ferguson	INR 10 crores
14	Harshit Rana	INR 20 lakhs
15	Tim Southee	INR 1.5 crores
16	Shardul Thakur	INR 10.75 crores
17	Varun Chakravarthy	INR 8 crores
18	Umesh Yadav	INR 2 crores
19	Sunil Narine	INR 6 crores
20	Narayan Jagadeeshan	INR 90 lakhs
21	Johnson Charles	INR 50 Lakhs
22	Rahmanullah Gurbaz	INR 50 lakhs
23	KS Bharat	INR 50 Lakhs
24	CHETAN SAKARIYA	INR 50 Lakhs
25	Mitchell Starc	INR 24.75 Cr
26	Angkrish Raghuvanshi	INR 20 Lakhs
27	SHERFANE RUTHERFORD	INR 1.20 Cr
28	Manish Pandey	INR 50 Lakhs
29	Mujeeb Rahman	INR 2 Cr
30	Sakib Hussain	INR 20 Lakhs
31	TBA	TBA
32	TBA	TBA
33	TBA	TBA
34	TBA	TBA
35	TBA	TBA
36	TBA	TBA
37	TBA	TBA
38	TBA	TBA
39	TBA	TBA
40	TBA	TBA

The list will be updated as soon as the auction starts...