Kolkata Knight Riders have lifted the IPL trophy twice. The team came into the IPL 2018 auction with Rs 59 crore and spent all of its money to get 17 players into their squad. Kolkata is one of the favourites this season and the chances of KKR lifting the trophy are pretty high. Whereas KKR also retained the Duo from West Indies including Sunil Narine and Andre Russell.
KKR spent the maximum amount on Australian batsman Chris Lynn, coughing a whopping amount of Rs 9.6 crore for the batsman.
The KKR squad includes:
Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Chris Lynn, Mitchell Starc, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Kuldeep Singh Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Nitish Rana, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Mitchell Johnson, Shubman Gill, Ranganath Vinay Kumar, Rinku Singh, Cameron Delport, Javon Searless, Apoorv Vijay Wankhade, Ishank Jaggi.