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KKR - Team Overview, IPL 2025 Season

 

                         KKR – Team Overview, IPL 2025 Season




The three times IPL winners and the current defending champions are again one of the teams to watch out for in the upcoming Tata IPL, season 18. As the team management successfully retained most of their core, they still had to let go two of their heavy weights, Sreyas Iyer and Mitchelle Starc during the mega auction. But, overall the team looks well balanced and destructive in their own way.

 

With the experience of Ajinkya Rahane leading the side with the assistance of veteran Chandrakant Pandit as a head coach, the team already has a solid XI and the bench strength also looks solid too. Looks to have covered all bases except the impact of Mitchelle Starc.

 

Lets have a look at how the playing XI along with the impact player is looking like, Yes, the combination may vary depending on the conditions but overall, they will look to keep a similar XI throughout.

 

Openers: I don’t think they will hinder too much on the explosivity of Sunil Narine at the top opening with either Gurbaz or DeKock. They will have their keeping option covered at the top as well.

 

Middle Order: With youth and experience on offer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Venkatesh Iyer, and Ajinkya Rahane will be handling the 3rd, 4th and 5th  position followed by the destructive RRR’s, Rinku Singh, Andre Russel and Ramandeep Singh.

 

Lower Order: The lower order will definitely feature Harshit Rana with his recently found experience with the Indian team, he will become really handy along with Spenser Johnson who’s here the fill in the big shoes of Mitchelle Starc. India’s answer to mystery spin, Varun Chakravarty fills in the 11th spot.

 

Impact Player: As they had gone for most part of last season, Anukul Roy with his all round abilities can be the impact player.

 

Probable Team List

1.     Rahmanulla Gurbaz (WK)

2.     Sunil Narine

3.     Angkrish Raghuvanshi

4.     Venketesh Iyer

5.     Ajinkya Rahane ©

6.     Rinku Singh

7.     Andre Russel

8.     Ramandeep Singh

9.     Harshit Rana

10.  Spenser Johnson

11.  Varun Chakravarthy

12.  Anukul Roy (Impact Player)

 

With a mix of destruction and stability in the top five, KKR will be hoping to maximize the Power Play with Narine and Gurbaz going hammer and tongs from the first over. Even if they loose one or two early, they have Raghuvanshi, Iyer and Rahane who brings in solidity in the middle and the lower middle order again can create havoc with the likes of Rinku, Russel and Ramandeep, three of the best finishers of the game going around. The bowling looks quite stable with 8 power-packed overs of mystery spin from Narine and Varun up their sleeves and both Harshit and Johnson coming in with a decent Champions Trophy run behind them. The only concern still remains is the fitness of Andre Russel as we have seen year after year as they want him to bowl his quota. But, they do have the likes of Ramandeep and Venky Iyer to slip in an over or two if required and with the impact player rule, the likes of Anukul Roy will also come in handy.

 

Key Players:

KKR will be hoping for another season of destruction from their destructive Russel, Narine Combo. Along with that, with the form Varun Chakravarthy brings in, they will look to cash in on that and will be hoping Venkatesh Iyer fires big time after spending such big bucks on him.

 

Overall the Knight Riders looks more than ready to defend their title as they start their campaign against RCB on 22nd March, 2025. The team looks too hot, too cool and the Kings men are ready to rule again.

 

By Sayandeep Dutta

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