KKR-KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS IPL 2020 (FULL SQUAD AND INFORMATION OF TEAM)

KKR 
The Kolkata Knight Riders are a franchise cricket team representing the city of Kolkata in the Indian Premier League. The franchise is owned by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, actress Juhi Chawla and her spouse Jay Mehta.The home of the Knight Riders is Eden Gardens, the largest cricket stadium in India and the second largest in the world by seating capacity.The franchise, which has gained immense popularity due to its association with celebrity owners, qualified for the IPL playoffs for the first time in 2011. This also gave them the eligibility to play in the Champions League Twenty20. They eventually became the IPL champions in 2012, by defeating Chennai Super Kings in the final. They repeated the feat in 2014, defeating Kings XI Punjab.The Knight Riders hold the record for the longest winning streak by any Indian team in T20s (14).
The leading run-scorer of the side is Gautam Gambhir,while the leading wicket-taker is Sunil Narine.The official theme of the team is Korbo, Lorbo, Jeetbo Re (we will perform, fight and win!) and the official colours are purple and gold. The brand value of the Knight Riders was estimated at $104 million in 2018, second highest among IPL franchises.

KKR HOME GROUND
The home venue of the Knight Riders is the iconic Eden Gardens (with the two ends of the crease called the High Court End and the Club House End). Owned by the Cricket Association of Bengal, it is the largest cricket stadium in India and had a seating capacity of over 90,000.In 2011, the stadium was renovated to meet the standards set by the International Cricket Council for the 2011 Cricket World Cup; reducing its capacity to around 68,000. The renovated stadium includes a new clubhouse and players' facilities, upgrading the exterior wall, cladding the existing roof structure with a new metal skin, and general infrastructure improvements.In 2013, two of the team's home matches were hosted by the JSCA International Cricket Stadium in Ranchi.

KKR 2020 SQUAD

Dinesh Karthik (captain)

Shivam Mavi

Sandeep Warrier

Kuldeep Yadav

Eoin Morgan

Pat Cummins

Harry Gurney

Sunil Narine

Nikhil Naik

M Siddharth

Andre Russell

Lockie Ferguson

Prasidh Krishna

Shubman Gill

Nitish Rana

Siddhesh Lad

Kamlesh Nagarkoti

Rinku Singh

Varun Chakravarthy

Tom Banton

Pravin Tambe

Chris Green

Rahul Tripathi



KKR BOUGHT PLAYERS AT AUCTION
  1. Eoin Morgan (5.25 Crore) 
  2. Pat Cummins (15.5 Crore)
  3. Rahul Tripathi (60 lakh)
  4. Varun Chakravarthy (4Cr)
  5. M Sidhharth (20 lakh) 
  6. ChrisGreen (20 lakh)
  7. Tom Banton (1 Crore)
  8. Pravin Tambe (20 lakh)
  9. Nikhil Naik (20 lakh)


KKR STRENGTH- 
FAST BOWLING

KKR WEAKNESS- INDIAN BATSMAN

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IPL 2020 -SHEDULE, TEAMS REVEIW, INTERESTING FACTS AND STATS OF FULL IPL, FULL REVIEW

IPL 
The Indian Premier League is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India contested during March or April and May of every year by eight teams representing eight different cities in India. The league was founded by the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2008. 
The IPL is the most-attended cricket league in the world and in 2014 ranked sixth by average attendance among all sports leagues. In 2010, the IPL became the first sporting event in the world to be broadcast live on YouTube.The brand value of the IPL in 2019 was ₹475 billion (US$6.7 billion), according to Duff & Phelps.According to BCCI, the 2015 IPL season contributed ₹11.5 billion (US$160 million) to the GDP of the Indian economy.

There have been twelve seasons of the IPL tournament. The current IPL title holders are the Mumbai Indians, who won the 2019 season.

IPL 2020
Eight franchises buy 62 players at VIVO IPL 2020 Player Auction
62 players, 29 overseas and 33 Indians were sold as the eight Indian Premier League franchises splurged their way into fierce bids at the 2020 VIVO IPL Player Auction in Kolkata.
Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins set the cash registers ringing as he became the most expensive overseas signing in the history of the tournament after Kolkata Knight Riders acquired him for a whopping Rs.15.50 crores.
His Australian teammate, all-rounder Glenn Maxwell too earned big with the final bid being locked at Rs. 10.75 crores. The Big show made his way to Kings XI Punjab.


IPL 2020 SCHEDULE
Currently, there is no official news released about IPL 2020 Time Table, dates, Match List or Schedule. Vivo IPL 2020 Schedule will be declared soon. Millions of cricket fans are eagerly waiting for upcoming Indian Premier League Season 13. Total 8 Teams will participate in this IPL T20 Tournament and each team will play 14 matches and Each and every match will be started in either 4.00pm or 8:00 pm only.
Last year IPL was started at 23rd of March and the final match was played on 12th of May 2019 where MI beat CSK and won the Vivo IPL Champion Title for the 4th Time. 
This Time IPL is predicted to start at First Week Of April Month and will end till last of May.
And IPL schedule will be updated soon on this website.

INTERESTING FACTS OF IPL

1. Broadcasting rights of IPL are sold for a whopping ₹16347.5 crore to Star India Network for 5 years. It means 1 ball costs around 21 Lakh Rupees.
2. In IPL Delhi Daredevils is the only team that had never played an IPL Final.
3. Harbhajan Singh had bowled the highest number of dot balls in the history of IPL. He has bowled 1151 dot balls in 151 Matches.
4. Praveen Kumar is the bowler who has bowled the first ever over in IPL.
5. Praveen Kumar is the bowler who has bowled the most number of maiden overs in the history of IPL. He has bowled 14 maiden overs.
6. Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli are the only two Indian players to have won the most valuable player award in the history of IPL.
7. Chennai Super Kings is the only team in IPL that has never changed its captain.
8. Amit Mishra holds the record of highest number of hat tricks 3 in the history of IPL.
9. Dale Steyn holds the record of most number of dot balls in one IPL Season. In 17 matches.He bowled 212 dot balls out of a total of 407 balls in IPL 2013.
10. Virat Kohli holds the record of most runs in one IPL Season. He has made 973 runs in IPL 2016.
11. In every IPL Season, RCB promotes Go Green initiative by wearing green jersey for a match.
12. Basil Thampi holds the record of conceding most runs in an innings. He conceded 70 runs in 4 overs against RCB in IPL 2018.
13. K.L. Rahul holds the record of fastest 50 in 14 balls and Chris Gayle holds the record of fastest 100 in 30 balls in IPL.
14. Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first Indian player to win an orange cap in IPL.
There is hardly any record which is untouched by Sachin in the cricketing world. He made 618 runs in 15 matches including 5 fifties in IPL 2010.
15. Shaun Marsh becomes the first orange cap holder in the inaugural season 2008 of IPL.
He made 616 runs in 11 matches including 5 fifties and one hundred in IPL 2008.
16. Sohail Tanvir becomes the first purple cap holder in the inaugural season 2008 of IPL.
17. Chris Gayle and David Warner have won orange cap twice in the history of IPL.
Chris Gayle in two consecutive years, 2011 and 2012 and David Warner in 2015 and 2017.
18. Bhuvneshwar Kumar SRH and dwayne bravo CSK are the only two bowlers to have won the purple cap twice in IPL history.
19.Prayas ray Barman(RCB-2019) is the youngest player in the history of IPL.
He is just 16 years old when he has been bought in IPL Auction 2018.
20. Mujeeb Ur Rahman is also the highest paid under 19 player to feature in IPL 2018.
This young Afghanistani player has been bought for a whopping 4 crores rupees by Kings XI Punjab in 2018.
21. Brad Hogg is the oldest player in the history of IPL.
He was 45 old when he last played for KKR in IPL 2016.
22. In 2015 Parthiv Patel becomes the first Indian player who plays for 6 IPL franchises.
23. Aaron Finch becomes the first overseas player who plays for 6 IPL franchises.
24. Lakshmipathy Balaji becomes the first bowler to pick up a hat trick in IPL in 2008.
25. Ashish Nehra for DD and Fidel Edwards for DC the two bowlers who bowl the most economical over in the history of IPL.
They both shared the same bowling figures. They both conceded 6 runs in his 4 overs with 1 maiden over each and 1 wicket each.
both the performances came in 2009 when IPL was held in South Africa instead of India.

IPL TOP STATS
1.MOST RUNS
       
VIRAT KHOLI
RUNS - 5412

2.  MOST SIXES
CRIS GAYLE
SIXES- 326

3. BEST STRIKE RATE
ANDRE RASSEL
STRIKE RATE- 186.41

4. MOST WICKETS
LASITH MALINGA
WICKETS- 170

5. BEST ECONOMY
RASHID KHAN
ECONOMY- 6.55

IPL 2020 AUCTION 
MOST EXPENSIVE PLAYER

  1. Cummins-₹15,50,00,000
  2. Maxwell-₹10,75,00,000
  3. Morris-₹10,00,00,000
  4. Cottrell-₹8,50,00,000
  5. Coulter-Nile-₹8,00,00,000
  6. Hetmyer-₹7,75,00,000

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