Kolkata Knight Riders Auction 2025 | Final Team | Retained | Released
In the IPL 2025, Ajinkya Rahane will lead the team as a new captain. In IPL 2025 auction Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) entered with a purse of ₹120 crore, and they added a total of 21 players to their team including 8 overseas players.
They choose their squad very smartly by acquiring key players such as Venkatesh Iyer, Quinton de Kock, Anrich Nortje, and Ajinkya Rahane.
KKR Auction 2025 franchise retained their core players Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Varun Chakravarthy, and Harshit Rana.
and KKR also released several players, notably Shreyas Iyer, Nitish Rana, and Mitchell Starc who were playing a key role in the team as important players.
IPL 2025 KKR Auction Final Team Squad
| Players | Players | Team | Type | Base | Sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Rinku Singh | KKR | BAT | – | 13.00 |
 | Varun Chakravarthy | KKR | AR | – | 12.00 |
 | Sunil Narine | KKR | BOWL | – | 12.00 |
 | Andre Russell | KKR | AR | – | 12.00 |
 | Harshit Rana | KKR | BOWL | – | 4.00 |
 | Ramandeep Singh | KKR | AR | – | 4.00 |
 | Venkatesh Iyer | KKR | AR | 2.00 | 23.75 |
 | Quinton de Kock | KKR | BAT | 2.00 | 3.60 |
 | Rahmanullah Gurbaz | KKR | BAT | 2.00 | 2.00 |
 | Anrich Nortje | KKR | BOWL | 2.00 | 6.50 |
 | Angkrish Raghuvanshi | KKR | BAT | 0.30 | 3.00 |
 | Luvnith Sisodia | KKR | BAT | 0.30 | 0.30 |
 | Vaibhav Arora | KKR | BOWL | 0.30 | 1.80 |
 | Mayank Markande | KKR | BOWL | 0.30 | 0.30 |
 | Rovman Powell | KKR | BAT | 1.50 | 1.50 |
 | Ajinkya Rahane | KKR | BAT | 1.50 | 1.50 |
 | Anukul Roy | KKR | AR | 0.30 | 0.40 |
 | Manish Pandey | KKR | BAT | 0.75 | 0.75 |
 | Moeen Ali | KKR | AR | 2.00 | 2.00 |
 | Spencer Johnson | KKR | BOWL | 2.00 | 2.80 |
 | Umran Malik | KKR | BOWL | 0.75 | 0.75 |
KKR Retained and Released Players List
| KKR Retained Players | KKR Released Players |
| Rinku Singh | Shreyas Iyer |
| Sunil Narine | Nitish Rana |
| Varun Chakravarthy | Jason Roy |
| Harshit Rana | Suyash Sharma |
| Ramandeep Singh | Vaibhav Arora |
| Andre Russell | Dushmantha Chameera |
| KS Bharat | |
| Chetan Sakariya | |
| Sherfane Rutherford | |
| Manish Pandey | |
| Allah Ghazanfar | |
| Sakib Hussain | |
| Mitchell Starc | |
| Phil Salt |
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MI Auction 2025 | Final Team | Retained | Released