Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will miss the companies of their common skipper Shreyas Iyer not less than within the first half of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023. Shreyas is anticipated to bear surgical procedure for his lower-back downside which benched him in the midst of the fourth and closing Test towards Australia earlier this month.
In Iyer’s absence, KKR are but to announce their new skipper for the IPL 2023, even days forward of their opening match towards Punjab Kings on April 1. West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell, Bangladesh T20I skipper Shakib al Hasan and Delhi Ranji skipper Nitish Rana are front-runners to exchange Iyer as skipper.
The Shah Rukh Khan-owned franchise have received the IPL twice prior to now however failed to succeed in the Playoffs stage in 2022 after dropping the IPL 2021 closing to MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings. KKR will financial institution on Russell’s firepower within the middle-order within the absence of Iyer with in-form Tamil Nadu opener Narayan Jagadeesan anticipated to return into the center in addition to the wicketkeeper.
Apart from these two Rinku Singh and Rana might be essential for KKR’s batting. The Knight Riders will as soon as once more have all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer on the prime of the order with both Litton Das of Bangladesh or Afghanistan’s Rahmanullah Gurbaz opening the batting with him. They even have the choice of sending spinner Sunil Narine to open the batting as properly.
The bowling assault might be manned by Narine together with Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee and spinner Varun Chakravarthy with all-rounders Shardul Thakur, Russell and Venkatesh Iyer additionally chipping in.
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— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) March 27, 2023
Kolkata Knight Riders strongest Predicted Playing XI
Venkatesh Iyer, Litton Das/Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Nitish Rana, Andre Russell (capt), Rinku Singh, Narayan Jagadeesan (wk), Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Varun Chakravarthy
Kolkata Knight Riders squad for IPL 2023
Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, Narayan Jagadeesan, Vaibhav Arora, Suyash Sharma, David Weise, Kulwant Khejrolia, Mandeep Singh, Litton Das, Shakib Al Hasan
