Kolkata Knight Riders IPL 2025 Retentions: Final List Of Retained Players And Remaining Purse Size

IPL Retentions 2025: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), experienced a drastic change in ir fortunes as y lifted coveted IPL trophy earlier this year. Under, head coach Chandrakant Pandit, mentor Gautam Gambhir and captain Shreyas Iyer, Kolkata Knight Riders lifted ir third IPL trophy after 10 years, ir last one coming in 2014 prior to this. Kolkata Knight Riders will head into next season of IPL with Dwayne Bravo as ir mentor who has replaced Gautam Gambhir.

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Kolkata Knight Riders Retained List For IPL 2025.

Defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders have anunced its retained list for IPL 2025 and have arguably delivered biggest surprise of phase. y have released Shreyas Iyer, who lifted IPL 2024 trophy as captain of franchise.

Here's full retained list of KKR: 

• First Retention: Rinku Singh- Rs 13 crore
• Second Retention: Varun Chakravarthy- Rs 12 crore
• Third Retention: Sunil Narine- Rs 12 crore
• Fourth Retention: Andre Russell- Rs 12 crore
• Fifth Retention: Harshit Rana- Rs 4 crore
• Sixth Retention: Ramandeep Singh- Rs 4 crore

Total Amount Spent: 57 crore

Remaining Purse: 63 crore

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KKR Eyeing Yet Ar Title

Apart from Mumbai Indian and Chennai Super Kings , Kolkata Knight Riders are most successful IPL franchise. Kolkata-based franchise has won three titles so far (2012, 2014 and 2024). Throughout all se victories, Sunil Narine has been a mainstay for purple and gold franchise. KKR head into next season as defending champions and it will be exciting to see how campaign pans out for m.