KKR Playing 11 2024: Kolkata Knight Riders Player List, Players Bought at IPL Auction 2024

The inclusion of former captain Gautam Gambhir as their mentor has boosted the plans and strategy of their auction in Dubai quite convincingly. If Eden Gardens going to prepare a spin-friendly track in most of the matches, Gambhir’s spin-oriented mentorship will help a lot in the upcoming IPL season.

The batting & spin department of the team of the core playing XI looks so strong and convincing. They needed a contingent upgrade in the pace department. And they have added Mitchell starc as the most expensive player in IPL history.

KKR Playing 11

Venkatesh Iyer (Impact Player)
Jason Roy
Shreyas Iyer (c)
Nitish Rana
Andre Russell
Rinku Singh
KS Bharat(wk)
Sunil Narine
Mitchell Starc
Harshit Rana
Varun Chakravarthy

Let’s take a look at Kolkata Knight Rider’s player list for the IPL 2024

KKR 2024 Player List

Players	Salary (INR)
Venkatesh Iyer	8 crores
Anukul Roy	20 lakhs
Andre Russell	12 crores
Vaibhav Arora	60 lakhs
Shreyas Iyer (c)	12.25 crores
Nitish Rana (c)	8 crores
Rinku Singh	55 lakhs
Suyash Sharma	20 lakhs
Harshit Rana	20 lakhs
Varun Chakravarthy	8 crores
Sunil Narine	6 crores
Jason Roy	2.8 crore
Rahmanullah Gurbaz	50 lakhs
KS Bharat	50 lakh
Chetan Sakariya	50 lakh
Mitchell Starc	24.75 crore
Angkrish Raghuvanshi	20 lakh
Ramandeep Singh	20 lakh
Sherfane Rutherford	1.5 crore
Manish Pandey	50 lakh
Mujeeb ur Rahman	2 crore
Gus Atkinson	1 crore
Shakib Hussain	20 lakh

The two-time champion team released some expensive picks like Shardul Thakur and Lockie Ferguson. They could fill up 12 players (5 overseas players) with a huge purse of 32.7 crore. They were one of the busiest franchises in this auction.

While three overseas players (i.e. Jason Roy, Andre Russell and Sunil Narine) almost cemented their places in the playing XI, they needed a foreign premium pacer with a good Indian wicketkeeper. Now there are Mitchell Starc and KS Bharat in the core team. They needed the most important backup of Andre Russell. Sherfane Rutherford will be quite able to do that. Now they have a stronger squad to run into the upcoming season as they have Chetan Sakaria, Gus Atkinson and Mujeeb ur Rahman in their team.

Kolkata Knight Riders Auction 2024 Players Bought

Players	Auction Price (INR)
KS Bharat	50 lakh
Chetan Sakariya	50 lakh
Mitchell Starc	24.75 crore
Angkrish Raghuvanshi	20 lakh
Ramandeep Singh	20 lakh
Sherfane Rutherford	1.5 crore
Manish Pandey	50 lakh
Mujeeb ur Rahman	2 crore
Gus Atkinson	1 crore
Shakib Hussain	20 lakh