Kolkata Knight Riders

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Kolkata Knight Riders

As the name itself suggests, this team represents Kolkata in the Indian Premier League. This
team plays incredibly well, and the owners of the team are always present to cheer and boost the
players while on the field. The team has got a strong fan base and fan following along with some
great players and coaches. This team is immensely popular and is thirteen years old. The main
cause behind the reputation and popularity of the Kolkata Knight Riders team is its owner,
who himself is a Bollywood star.

Kolkata Knight Riders Owner

This team has two owners. The first is the Red Chillies Entertainment, owned by Shahrukh
Khan and his wife Gauri Khan with a share of 55% and the second owner being the Mehta group
owned by Juhi Chawla and her husband Jay Mehta with a share of 45%.
This is one of the major reasons for the popularity and fan base of the team that it is owned by
the biggest star of all times; Shahrukh Khan himself.

Who is the CEO of Kolkata Knight Riders?

Venky Mysore was the CEO of the two times champion team Kolkata Knight Riders.

Kolkata Knight Riders Coach

Brendon McCullum

This team has got a New Zealand-based renowned player as their coach, namely Brendon
McCullum. McCullum has been a coach of the New Zealand team and plays all the forms. He is
one of the best players even today and has made some whooping records in his career. Surely,
the team couldn’t get a better coach than Brandon McCullum. He himself is a Right-handed
batsman and plays amazingly well.

Kolkata Knight Riders Captain

The captaincy of the team is handled by Eoin Morgan, and no one could handle it better than he
does. This Irish batsman has been a captain of the England team also, and in his era of captaincy, the team made huge achievements, including the win of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup. It was
the first time for the English team to win this competition. They had never won it before.
He himself is a left-handed batsman.

Kolkata Knight Riders Players

The list of the players of this team is such that every player has their own way of playing and has
made remarkable records in the field of cricket. This team consists of Eoin Morgan as captain
and batsman, Andre Russel, who is an All-rounder, Shubham Gill as a batsman, Varun
Chakravarthy as Bowler, Dinesh Karthik as Wicket-keeper, Harbhajan Singh as a bowler, Nitish
Raina as a batsman, and many more just like them. Here is the full list of Kolkata Knight Riders
Players.

  1. Eoin Morgan
  2. Karun Nair
  3. Andre Russel
  4. Rahul Tripathi
  5.  
  6. Ben Cutting
  1. Pawan Negi
  2. Shakib al Hasan
  3.  
  4. Dinesh Karthik
  5. Lockie Ferguson
  6. Kamlesh Nagarkoti
  1. Gurkeerat Singh Mann
  2. Nitish Rana
  3.  
  4. Shubman Gill
  5. Kuldeep Yadav
  6. Tim Seifert
  1. Harbhajan Singh
  2. Shivam Mavi
  3.  
  4. Sheldon Jackson
  5. Sandeep Warrier
  6. Pat Cummins
  1. Varun Chakravarthy
  2. Prasidh Krishna
  3. Venkatesh Iyer
  4. Sunil Narine
  5. Vaibhav Arora

These players have made their fans proud from time to time and never disappoint them.