Kolkata Knight Riders Squad Review 2018

Last year IPL - Indian Premier League completed 10 glorious years. As announced a grand auction was held at Bangalore in January 2018. With the return of two popular franchise team Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, the auction got so much excitement all over the world. After so many discussion the decision was taken of retaining players that each team will be able to retain max 3 players. So all 8 teams announced their list of retained players. 

8 IPL franchises retain these following players

Kolkata Knight Riders	Andre Russell, Sunil Narine
Royal Challengers Bangalore	Virat Kohli, Sarfaraz Khan, AB de Villiers
Chennai Super Kings	MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja
Mumbai Indians	Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah
Sunrisers Hyderabad	David Warner, Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Rajasthan Royals	Steve Smith
Kings XI Punjab	Axar Patel
Delhi Daredevils	Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Chris Morris

Coming to the retaining decision of Kolkata based franchise Kolkata Knight Riders decided to retain hard hitter all-rounder Andre Russel and Mystery spinner-batsman Sunil Narine. After completing one year ban on cricket Russel will be super excited to back in the game with a bang. And what else is there to talk about the magnificent Sunil Narine. This duo going to play a vital role for KKR in IPL 2018. We will be looking forward to watch so many 4s and 6s all around the ground this year from them. We will be ready to cheer for each and every wicket taken by them.

Now coming to the auction Kolkata Knight Riders bench was ready with their plan. But there was a big decision to make by them, as Gautam Gambhir who was behind all the success of last 7 years requested KKR not to bid from them or use the RTM card. So that he can play for his home team.  That decision surely made all the KKR fans very much sad.

The next two buy was quite expensive for KKR. But has to say picking up Chris Lynn and Mitchel Starc has made the team stronger. While Lynn can make runs with magnificent run rat, Starc can pick up quick wickets with his fiery bowling. KKR fans must be very happy to have these two Aussie players in the team. Lynn sanity will be back this year again at the Eden Gardens.

We know that Kolkata Knight Riders team management always made their team with a different thought each and every time. They always prefer great talent rather than big names, so that team can be a good mixture of good talents and experience. That's why they decided to focus on the young Indian talents who were doing great for the U-19 team in the World Cup in New Zealand. They just went for some of the best from the team by picking up Subhman Gill, Kamlesh Nagarkoti and Shibam Mavi. We should not forget that Shubhman Gill was selected the Man of the tournament in U-19 ICC World Cup. Kamlesh Nagarkoti and Mavi are now well known for their pace bowling with 140+ kmph speed. With the new bouncy pitch at the Eden Gardens, these two bowlers can be dangerous for the opposition teams. 

Later KKR team used their RTM cards to bring Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla and Kuldeep Yadav back in their squad for IPL 2018. Dinesh Kartik, Nitish Rana and Ishank Jaggi were picked up to bring strength in the middle order of the team. To make the bowling line-up strong Vinay Kumar, Cameron Delport and Mitchel Johnson were brought in with some domestic players with good performances like A Wankhede, Rinku Singh.

So, at last, we can tell that like every year the team is a good mixture of experience and talents. Though we don't have too many big names in the team, we can expect young knights to perform well to keep the good performance of the team throughout the tournament. 

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I am super excited to watch these knights rocking each and every game in this year IPL. What do you think? Don't forget to let us know by commenting below.