Top 5 Kolkata Knight Riders Players Who Can Be In Red Hot Form This IPL Season

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:13:52 GMT

Current defending Champions Kolkata Knight Riders had a great auction before the IPL 2025,though there were quite setback when Shreyas Iyer the former captain left the team for the credibility issues. Though team had moved on from that and they have replaced the same replica of the person who understand the game better. They bought Rahane at the cost of 1.5 crore which could consider as the best deal of all.

The amount of experience Rahane posses in that camp is just invaluable. Retaining the core team and adversing the new talents strains Kolkata into the final 4 of this IPL edition too.In this edition there are players who can strom this IPL season with their innovative batting style.

The first on our list is -

1 Ajinkya Rahane

Rahane might be considered as slow starter or carrier of the team but the recent form and the way he played in the previous season are the testiments that Rahane could be the x factor for Kolkata. From 2023 he has stellar performance for CSK where he had the strike rate of 199 and scored 209 runs comparing to last year it is quite impressive where he just possesed a strike rate of 103 and scoring just 133 runs.

Rahane has improved a lot as a t20 player and the additional responsibility of captaincy would strive him more as player and enchance the confidence beneath him.

2. Venkatesh Iyer

Venkatesh Iyer has been the best opener for KKR where he debuted in 2021 where he had a stellar performance in 10 games scoring 350 runs where they finished as runners up in that season and Iyer established himself as prominent opener. He established himself in 2022 too where he had a good season but later suffering from injury he had to skip the next season.

Iyer was back in 2024 he was not just back but was impactful then way earlier he just devasted the opening slot scoring 370 in that season with the average of 46.89 with the strike rate of 158. Yet it seems Iyer hasn't shown his full potential he may be the dangerous customer for other teams in this upcoming season.

3. Andre Russell

The muscle man is no need of introduction of his finishing abilities which he is been doing for KKR for years. If he stands on the ground that means any bowler in the world is small for him. He has played some of the crucial knocks which is never been expected. The type of pressure handling he does and range of hitting is quite insane.

He posses the strike rate of 170 at the death overs of the game. Where his valuable efforts are still in praise. In this season too he can create a huge impact with his all round abilities too which can help KKR to attain their fourth title.

4. Manish Pandey

Manish Pandey who started his career as an opener than later moved onto the middle order batsman. Started his career with Royal Challengers Banglore where streched with Virat Kohli strature though he had a good flow of runs too. But due to imconsistency he had to travel many teams. Scoring runs was never an issue but the template of consistency been lacking.

In this season he has been picked by Kolkata once again for 75 Lakhs. He is considered as best middle order batsman for now who manages the role and this year without absence of Shreyas Iyer he can play the middle order role for the team.

5. Sunil Narine

Sunil Narine the spin web and the pinch hitter of the team has gain wide spread recogonisition where it all started up by Gautam Gambhir who promoted him to the top order during his captaincy tenure in 2017,from there it was no looking back for Narine. With KKR he has won three tiltles from 2012,2014 and now its 2024. He has won it in different phases which makes him more ellite. There is no intro for his spin bowling which can be heavily handy.

He can play the role of same all rounder for the team, that's what makes kolkata a dangerous side where their players posses both kind of talents so it kindly helps them to generate the game.

These players are considered as the X factor for this season it would be epicable as they added some experienced coach pool too Csk Dwayne Bravo as bowling coach can be very handy that reciprocates KKR are on a hunt to retain their title.