The 2023 cricket season was the 16th season for the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). The franchise had won the IPL title twice in 2012 and 2014 . The franchise had also qualified for the playoffs for three consecutive years in 2016, 2017 and 2018 as well as in 2021, when they were the runners up. In 2023, KKR failed to qualify for the playoffs for the second season in a row, finishing in the seventh place.
Background The team retained four players from the 2022 season ahead of the 2023 Auction Retained Shreyas Iyer, Andre Russell, Varun Chakravarthy, Venkatesh Iyer, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, Harshit Rana
Released Pat Cummins, Shivam Mavi, Sam Billings, Aaron Finch, Alex Hales, Ajinkya Rahane, Mohammad Nabi, Sheldon Jackson, Ashok Sharma, Chamika Karunaratne, Abhijeet Tomar, Baba Indrajith, Pratham Singh, Ramesh Kumar, Rasikh Salam Dar
Trade Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Rahmanullah Gurbaz
Squad Players with international caps are listed in bold Ages given as of 31 March 2023, the date of the first match of the season No.NameNationalityBirth dateBatting styleBowling styleYear signedSalaryNotes Batters Aarya Desai Left-handed Right-arm off break 2023 1 Mandeep Singh Right-handed Right-arm medium 2023 27 Nitish Rana Left-handed Right-arm off break 2018 41 Shreyas Iyer Right-handed Right-arm leg break 2022 Unavailable due to back injury 20 Jason Roy Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2023 Overseas Replacement of Shakib Al Hasan 35 Rinku Singh Left-handed Right-arm off break 2018 Wicket-keepers 16 Litton Das Right-handed 2023 Overseas Unavailable due to personal reason 18 Narayan Jagadeesan Right-handed 2023 21 Rahmanullah Gurbaz Right-handed 2023 Overseas Unavailable due to personal reason Johnson Charles Right-handed Left-arm orthodox 2023 Overseas Replacement of Litton Das All-rounders 96 David Wiese Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 2023 Overseas 75 Shakib Al Hasan Left-handed Left-arm orthodox 2023 Overseas Unavailable due to personal reason 12 Andre Russell Right-handed Right-arm fast 2014 Overseas 54 Shardul Thakur Right-handed Right-arm medium 2023 25 Venkatesh Iyer Left-handed Right-arm medium 2021 6 Anukul Roy Left-handed Left-arm orthodox 2022 Spin bowlers 74 Sunil Narine Left-handed Right-arm off break 2012 Overseas Captain 29 Varun Chakravarthy Right-handed Right-arm leg spin 2020 05 Suyash Sharma Right-handed Right-arm leg spin 2023 Pace bowlers 19 Umesh Yadav Right-handed Right-arm fast 2022 38 Tim Southee Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2021 Overseas 69 Lockie Ferguson Right-handed Right-arm fast 2023 Overseas 136 Kulwant Khejroliya Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast 2023 14 Vaibhav Arora Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 2023 22 Harshit Rana Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2023 Source: Kolkata Knight RidersKKR Players
Administration and support staff PositionNameCEO and Managing Director Venky MysoreTeam manager Wayne BentleyHead coach Chandrakant PanditAssistant coach Abhishek NayarAssistant coach James FosterMentor David HusseyBowling coach Bharat ArunAssistant bowling coach Omkar SalviFielding coach Ryan ten DoeschateStrength and conditioning coach Chris Donaldson Source:KKR Staff
Points table
Teams and standings Results by match
Statistics Most runs No. Name Matches Runs High score 1 Rinku Singh 12 407 58 not out 2 Nitish Rana 12 383 75 3 Venkatesh Iyer 11 314 104 4 Jason Roy 5 218 61 5 Andre Russell 11 208 42 6 Rahmanullah Gurbaz 8 198 81 7 Shardul Thakur 8 109 68 8 Narayan Jagadeesan 6 89 36 9 David Wiese 3 21 12 not out 10 Umesh Yadav 8 19 6 not out 11 Anukul Roy 3 17 13 not out 12 Mandeep Singh 3 14 12 13 Sunil Narine 11 14 7 not out 14 Litton Das 1 4 4 15 Vaibhav Arora 3 2 2 not out 16 Varun Chakravarthy 11 1 1 Source: https://www.iplt20.com/stats/
Most wickets No. Name Matches Wickets Best bowling 1 Varun Chakravarthy 11 17 4/15 2 Suyash Sharma 8 10 3/30 3 Sunil Narine 11 7 3/33 4 Andre Russell 11 7 3/22 5 Harshit Rana 3 4 2/33 6 Shardul Thakur 8 4 2/23 7 Anukul Roy 3 3 2/19 8 Nitish Rana 11 3 2/17 9 Vaibhav Arora 3 2 2/32 10 Tim Southee 2 2 2/54 11 Kulwant Khejroliya 2 2 2/44 12 Umesh Yadav 8 1 1/27 13 Lockie Ferguson 3 1 1/19 Source: https://www.iplt20.com/stats/
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