Kolkata Knight Riders in 2023
The 2023 cricket season will be the 16th season for the Indian Premier League franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). The franchise won the IPL title twice in  2012 and 2014 . The franchise also qualified for the playoffs in the three consecutive years of 2016, 2017 and 2018 as well as in 2021 when they were runners up. Background
The team retained four players from the 2022 season ahead of the 2023 Auction
Retained Shreyas Iyer, Andre Russell, Varun Chakravarthy, Venkatesh Iyer, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, Harshit Rana

 Released Pat Cummins, Shivam Mavi, Sam Billings, Aaron Finch, Alex Hales, Ajinkya Rahane, Mohammad Nabi, Sheldon Jackson, Ashok Sharma, Chamika Karunaratne, Abhijeet Tomar, Baba Indrajith, Pratham Singh, Ramesh Kumar, Rasikh Salam Dar

 Trade Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Rahmanullah Gurbaz

Squad 
 Players with international caps are listed in bold
 Ages given as of 31 March 2023, the date of the first match of the season

Source: Kolkata Knight Riders

Administration and support staff

Points table

Teams and standings

Results by match

Statistics

Most runs

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

Most wickets

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

References

Kolkata Knight Riders seasons