Nothing major bad with Squad, just the case with non-performance

14 games, 5 wins and 7 defeats; The eighth place in IPL 2025 is not what KKR would have hoped, after raising the trophy in 2024. Of course, the Times were different last year, with Shreyas Iyer, Gautam Gambir and Abhishek Nayar at the helm, which was not the case this time, but Kolkata had managed to assemble a decent team, which managed to live the expectations.

All their best queries and strikers failed in the same way, or at least did not work regularly, to repeat last year’s performance. Above all, the striker was a disappointed Big-Big. In addition, a controversy linked to the height at the start of the tournament did not do them good, and their spinners / others were still under pressure at home – the gardens of Eden. Now that their campaign has been over for a long time, Insideport is examining the 2025 KKR season.

IPL 2025 KKR has preserved and released from players

Players selected: Sunil Narine, Rinku Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harsit Rana.

Released players: Shreyas Iyer, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Nitish Rana, Sherfane Rutherford, Phil Salt, KS Bharat, Manish Pandey, Angkrish Raghuvanshi Starc, Chetan Sakariya.

Full KKR squad

Quinton de Kock (WK), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane (C), Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Anrich Nortje, Varun Chakaravarthy, Angrish Raghuvanshi, Luvnis Anukul Roy, Gurbaz, Mayank Markande, Shivam Shukla, Chetan Sakariya.

No one can really point their fingers to the KKR team, and despite some big names in the previous season, they had all the bases covered. Yes, the captain’s candidate could have been a problem, because Ajinkya Rahane did not appear as the most effective captain, but it seemed that management did not want to put the reign to Sunil Narine, Andre Russell or even Rinku Singh.

Kolkata Knight Riders Review (4/10)

KKR paid a heavy price to let Shreyas Iyer go. Not only is he one of the best leaders in the tournament, but was the backbone of their strike order. His absence, and the bad form of Venkatesh Iyer meant, their other strikers were always going to fight. Most importantly, their Sunil Narine use ploy as a opener looked like an expired movement; Something that the opposition teams had planned in advance. And they did not try to change this at all. There were also problems in their bowlingal attack and missed Mitchell Starc.

Tall::

• Ajinkya Rahane entered as captain and ended as their highest discount
• Angkrish Raghuvanshi was not exceptional, but with his 300 points shown, he can be a future star
• Varun Chakravarthy and Vaibhav Arora finished with 17 counters each

Down:

• Let go shreyas
• Make Venkatesh Iyer the vice-captain
• Failure by André Russell
• Poor performance of Harshit Rana and Narine
• Opening of horses of striker, poor in the stick by Kock Quinton

In advance on IPL 2026

First, the team must have a captain, who can also be their best performer; Ditto with the vice-captain too. If the team is looking for the long term, then Rinku Singh and Raghuvanshi can be big bets. They must strengthen their striker and obtain a solid foreign stimulator. Now, who they get is a discussion for later, but the team should be ready to fill the shortcomings, even it has a price. But as discussed previously, they had a decent team to start.

So there should not be any changes in abundance, but 3-4 necessary for sure.