2022 Kolkata Knight Riders season explained

Club:	Kolkata Knight Riders
Season:	2022
Coach:	Brendon McCullum
Coachtitle:	Coach
Captain:	Shreyas Iyer
Captaintitle:	Captain
Ground:	Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Comp1:	2022 Indian Premier League
Comp1 Result:	7th
Most Runs:	Shreyas Iyer (401)
Most Wickets:	Andre Russell (17)
Prevseason:	2021
Nextseason:	2023

The 2022 season was the 15th season for the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). They were one of the ten teams that competed in the 2022 Indian Premier League. The franchise qualified for the IPL playoffs for the first time in 2011 and won the tournament in 2012 and 2014.^{[1] [2]} The franchise also qualified for the playoffs in the three consecutive years of 2016, 2017 and 2018^{[3] [4]} as well as in 2021 when they were runners up.

Background

The team retained four players from the 2021 season ahead of the 2022 mega-auction.^[5]

Retained: Andre Russell, Varun Chakaravarthy, Venkatesh Iyer, Sunil Narine

Acquired during the auction: Nitish Rana, Pat Cummins, Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Mavi, Sheldon Jackson, Ajinkya Rahane, Rinku Singh, Anukul Roy, Rasikh Dar, Baba Indrajith, Chamika Karunaratne, Abhijeet Tomar, Pratham Singh, Ashok Sharma, Sam Billings, Alex Hales, Tim Southee, Ramesh Kumar, Mohammad Nabi, Umesh Yadav, Aman Khan^[6]

Squad

• Players with international caps are listed in bold.
• Squad strength: 25 (17 - Indian, 8 - overseas)

No.	Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Year signed	Salary	Notes
Batters
41	Shreyas Iyer		6 December 1994	Right-handed		2022		Captain^[7]
3	Ajinkya Rahane		6 June 1988	Right-handed		2022
	Alex Hales		3 January 1989	Right-handed		2022		Overseas
5	Aaron Finch		17 November 1986	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2022		Overseas Replacement for Alex Hales^[8] ^[9]
35	Rinku Singh		12 October 1997	Left-handed		2022
23			23 November 1996	Right-handed		2022
24	Abhijeet Tomar		14 March 1995	Right-handed		2022
	Pratham Singh		31 August 1992	Left-handed		2022
	Baba Indrajith		8 July 1994	Right-handed		2022
	Ramesh Kumar		1 January 1999	Left-handed		2022
All-rounders
12	Andre Russell		29 April 1988	Right-handed		2014		Overseas
25	Venkatesh Iyer		25 December 1994	Left-handed		2021
27	Nitish Rana		27 December 1993	Left-handed		2018
6	Anukul Roy		30 November 1998	Left-handed		2022
7	Mohammad Nabi		1 January 1985	Right-handed		2022		Overseas
Wicket-Keepers
77	Sam Billings		15 June 1991	Right-handed		2022		Overseas
21	Sheldon Jackson		27 September 1986	Right-handed		2021
Spin bowlers
29	Varun Chakravarthy		29 August 1991	Right-handed		2020
74	Sunil Narine		26 May 1988	Left-handed		2012		Overseas
Pace bowlers
30	Pat Cummins		8 May 1993	Right-handed		2020		Overseas
26	Shivam Mavi		26 November 1998	Right-handed		2018
	Chamika Karunaratne		29 May 1996	Right-handed		2022		Overseas
38	Tim Southee		11 December 1988	Right-handed		2022		Overseas
19	Umesh Yadav		25 October 1987	Right-handed		2022
4	Rasikh Salam		5 April 2000	Right-handed		2022
22	Harshit Rana		22 December 2001	Right-handed		2022
	Paras Sharma		17 June 2002	Right-handed		2022
Source:KKR Players

Administration and support staff

Position	Name
CEO and Managing Director	Venky Mysore
Team manager	Wayne Bentley
Head coach	Brendon McCullum
Assistant coach	Abhishek Nayar
Mentor	David Hussey
Bowling coach	Bharat Arun
Fielding coach	James Foster
Source:KKR Staff

Kit manufacturers and sponsors

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Teams and standings

Point table

Fixtures

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Statistics

Most runs

No.	Name	Match	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave.	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s
1	Shreyas Iyer	14	14	1	401	85	30.85	298	134.56	0	3	41	11
2		14	14	1	361	57	27.77	251	143.82	0	2	29	22
3	Andre Russell	14	12	3	335		37.22	192	174.47	0	1	18	32
4		12	12	1	182		16.55	169	107.69	0	1	17	7
5		7	7	2	174		34.80	117	148.71	0	0	17	7
6		8	8	1	169	36	24.14	138	122.46	0	0	9	10
7		7	7	0	133	44	19.00	128	103.90	0	0	14	4
8		5	5	0	86	58	17.20	61	140.98	0	1	10	3
9		14	10	2	71	22	8.88	40	177.50	0	0	6	6
10		5	5	1	63		15.75	24	262.50	0	1	5	6

• Source: https://www.iplt20.com/stats/

Most wickets

No.	Name	Match	Inns	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	BBI	Avg.	Econ.	SR	4W	5W
1		14	13	28.1	0	278	17	4/5	16.35	9.86	9.94	1	0
2		12	12	48.0	2	339	16	4/23	21.18	7.06	18.00	1	0
3		9	9	35.0	0	275	14	3/20	19.64	7.85	15.00	0	0
4		14	14	56.0	0	312	9	2/21	34.66	5.57	37.33	0	0
5	Pat Cummins	5	5	19.5	0	212	7	3/22	30.28	10.68	17.00	0	0
6		11	11	39.0	0	332	6	1/22	55.33	8.51	39.00	0	0
6		6	6	22.0	0	227	5	1/33	45.40	10.31	26.40	0	0
8		2	2	7.0	0	55	1	1/28	55.00	7.85	42.0	0	0
9	Harshit Rana	2	2	5	0	51	1	1/24	51.00	10.20	30.00	0	0

• Source: https://www.iplt20.com/stats/

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kolkata Knight Riders win IPL 5, beat Chennai Super Kings. 29 March 2012. 13 October 2012. 2 June 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120602070808/http://www.ipl-schedule.net/ipl-2012-final-kolkata-knight-riders-win-ipl-5-beat-chennai-super-kings/. dead.
2. News: Records / Twenty20 matches / Team records / Most consecutive wins. ESPNcricinfo. 2 October 2014.
3. Web site: IPL to become 10 team tournament from 2022 . 29 September 2021 . ESPNcricinfo.
4. Web site: 28 September 2021 . IPL 2022: CONFIRMED! Two new IPL teams will be announced on THIS date . 29 September 2021 . Zee News.
5. Web site: VIVO IPL 2022 Player Retention . 30 November 2021 . IPLT20.com . Indian Premier League.
6. Web site: Kolkata Knight Riders full list of players after IPL auction 2022 . 14 February 2021 . sportstar.thehindu.com . The Hindu.
7. Web site: Shreyas Iyer named captain of Kolkata Knight Riders. Cricbuzz. 16 February 2022.
8. Web site: KKR rope in Aaron Finch as replacement for Alex Hales. Cricbuzz. 11 March 2022.
9. Web site: Alex Hales opts out of IPL 2022, KKR name Aaron Finch as replacement. ESPNcricinfo. 11 March 2022.