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Kolkata Knight Riders

Teams and fixtures for Kolkata Knight Riders.

  • Staff Report
  • Published: 00:15 April 17, 2008
  • Gulf News

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Kolkata Knight riders

  • Owner: Red Chillies Entertainment owned by Shah Rukh Khan.
  • Bought for: $ 75.09 million
  • Designated player: Sourav Ganguly
  • Most expensive player: Ishant Sharma (Ind) $ 950,000
  • Coach: John Buchanan.

Squad: Sourav Ganguly (captain), Ricky Ponting, David Hussey, Chris Gayle, Ishant Sharma, Ajit Agarkar, Murali Kartik, Iqbal Abdullah, Siddarth Kaul, Akash Chopra, Cheteshwar Pujara, Wriddhiman Prasanta Saha, Rohan Banerjee, Debabrata Das, Saurasish Lahiri, Laxmiratan Shukla, Yashpal Singh, Brendon McCullum, Shoaib Akhtar, Salman Butt, Mohammad Hafeez, Umar Gul, Tatenda Taibu.

Fixtures:

April 18

Royal Challengers
Bangalore

April 20
Deccan Chargers
Kolkata

April 26
Chennai Superkings
Chennai

April 29
Mumbai Indians
Kolkata

May 1
Rajastan Royals
Jaipur

May 3
King's XI Punjab
Mohali

May 8
Royal Challengers
Kolkata

May 11
Deccan Chargers
Hyderabad

May 13
Delhi Daredevils
Kolkata

May 16
Mumbai Indians
Mumbai

May 18
Chennai Superkings
Kolkata

May 20
Rajastan Royals
Kolkata

May 22
Delhi Daredevils
Delhi

May 25
King's XI Punjab
Kolkata

Note: Local players will be added to make up the 16-man squads. Teams and fixtures subject to change.










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