KKR Retained and Released Players 2025 – Hello friends, welcome to iplgk.com. The list of released and retained players by all IPL teams was released on 31 October 2024. In this blog post we will know about the players released and retained by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) for IPL 2025. The link to download the PDF of this blog post is given at the bottom of this article.
IPL Retained and Released Players 2025
All IPL franchises have released the list of retained and released players for IPL Mega Auction 2024. By clicking on the link given below, you can read about the players retained and released by other teams.
- CSK Retained and Released Players 2025
- RCB Retained and Released Players 2025
- MI Retained and Released Players 2025
- LSG Retained and Released Players 2025
- GT Retained and Released Players 2025
KKR Retained and Released Players List 2025
Kolkata Knight Riders franchise retained a total of 6 players. These players include stormy batsman Rinku Singh, spinner Varun Chakraborty, West Indies all-rounder Sunil Narayan, West Indies stormy batsman Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh and Harshit Rana. It includes 4 capped and 2 uncapped players. Kolkata Knight Riders retained Rinku Singh for Rs 13 crore.
Like every franchise, Kolkata Knight Riders also had Rs 120 crore in their purse and Kolkata Knight Riders spent Rs 69 crore to retain these 6 players. Kolkata Knight Riders still have Rs 51 crore left in their purse to buy other players in the IPL mega auction.
The following are the names of the players retained and released by the Kolkata Knight Riders franchise.
KKR Retained Players List 2025
Kolkata Knight Riders franchise has retained a total of 6 players by spending Rs 69 crore, out of which 4 are Indian and 2 are overseas players. Following are the names of the players retained by Kolkata Knight Riders, their price and category.
| KKR Retained Players List 2025 | |||
| S.N. | Player Name | Price | Category |
| 1. | Rinku Singh | Rs 13 Crore | Capped |
| 2. | Varun Chakravarthy | Rs 12 Crore | Capped |
| 3. | Sunil Narine | Rs 12 Crore | Capped |
| 4. | Andre Russell | Rs 12 Crore | Capped |
| 5. | Ramandeep Singh | Rs 4 Crore | Uncapped |
| 6. | Harshit Rana | Rs 4 Crore | Uncapped |
KKR Released Players List 2025
Kolkata Knight Riders franchise released a total of 17 players for the next season of IPL, these players also include the names of veteran players like captain Shreyas Iyer, Nitish Rana, Phil Salt, Mitchell Starc, Shakib Al Hasan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Manish Pandey. Following are the names of all the players released by Kolkata Knight Riders franchise.
- Suyash Sharma
- Vaibhav Arora
- KS Bharat
- Angkrish Raghuvanshi
- Manish Pandey
- Chetan Sakaria
- Anukul Roy
- Venkatesh Iyer
- Nitish Rana
- Shreyas Iyer
- Mitchell Starc
- Gus Atkinson
- Sherfan Rutherford
- Rahmanullah Gurbaz
- Phil Salt
- Shaqib Al Hasan
- Mujeeb Ur Rahman
In this blog post we read about the players retained and released by Kolkata Knight Riders franchise. The link to download the PDF of this post is given below.
