IPL KKR Team 2025 Players List: Defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders bought back Venkatesh Iyer for a whopping sum of Rs 23.75 crores in one of the surprises of the IPL Auction Day 1. They also added players like Quinton de Kock and Anrich Nortje in their ranks while buying back Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Angkrish Raghuvanshi while also snapping up Mayank Markande.

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Kolkata have managed to keep their core intact, using up all their 6 retentions with Rinku Singh (Rs 13 crore) being the costliest. They also retained veteran soldiers Andre Russell and Sunil Narine for Rs 12 crore each as well as spinner Varun Chakravarthy (Rs 12 crore) Ramandeep Singh (Rs 4 crore) and Harshit Rana (Rs 4 crore). They do not have any Right To Match options left and will go into the auctions with a Rs 51 crore purse with which they might look to bring in Ishan Kishan, Jos Buttler or go again for Starc.

Here are the players Kolkata Knight Riders have snapped up in the auction: Venkatesh Iyer (Rs 23.75 crore), Quinton de Kock (Rs 3.60 crore), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Rs 2 crore), Anrich Nortje (Rs 6.50 crore), Angkrish Raghuvanshi (Rs 3 crore), Mayank Markande (Rs 30 lakh), Vaibhav Arora (Rs 1.80 crore), Rovman Powell (Rs 1.50 crore), Manish Pandey (Rs 75 lakh), Spencer Johnson (Rs 2.80 crore), Luvnith Sisodia (Rs 30 lakh), Ajinkya Rahane (Rs 1.50 crore), Anukul Roy (Rs 40 lakh), Moeen Ali (Rs 2 crore), Umran Malik (Rs 75 lakh)

Here are the players Kolkata Knight Riders have retained: Rinku Singh (Rs 13 cr), Varun Chakravarthy (Rs 12 cr), Sunil Narine (Rs 12 cr), Andre Russell (Rs 12 cr), Ramandeep Singh (Rs 4 cr), Harshit Rana (Rs 4 cr)