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 their fortunes as they lifted the coveted IPL trophy earlier this year. Under, head coach Chandrakant Pandit, mentor Gautam Gambhir and captain Shreyas Iyer, Kolkata Knight Riders lifted their third IPL trophy after 10 years, their last one coming in 2014 prior to this. Kolkata Knight Riders will head into the next season of the IPL with Dwayne Bravo as their mentor who has replaced Gautam Gambhir.

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Kolkata Knight Riders Retained List For IPL 2025.

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

Here's the 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 Another Title

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