List of Kolkata Knight Riders cricketers

The following is a list of cricketers from the Kolkata Knight Riders. It includes players to have featured for the team in one or more matches across IPL and CLT20.

Key

General

• § – Member of the current squad
• † – Captain ^[1]
• ‡ – Wicket-keeper
• First – Year of Twenty20 debut for KKR
• Last – Year of latest Twenty20 match for KKR
• Mat – Number of matches played

Fielding

• Ca – Catches taken
• St – Stumpings effected

Batting

• Inn – Number of innings batted
• NO – Number of innings not out
• Runs – Runs scored in career
• HS – Highest score
• 100 – Centuries scored
• 50 – Half-centuries scored ^[α]
• Avg – Runs scored per dismissal
• * – Batsman remained not out

Bowling

• Balls – Balls bowled in career ^[β]
• Wkt – Wickets taken in career
• BBI – Best bowling in an innings ^[γ]
• ER - Average number of runs conceded per over ^[δ]
• Ave – Average runs per wicket
• SR - Batsman scoring rate

Captains

• Won – Number of games won
• Lost – Number of games lost
• NR – Number of games with no result
• Win% – Percentage of games won to those captained ^[ε]

Players

RR cricketers

General					Batting [2]								Bowling [3]					Fielding [3]
Name	Nationality [ζ]	First	Last	Mat	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	100	50 [α]	Avg	SR	Balls [β]	Wkt	BBI [γ]	ER [δ]	Ave	Ca	St
Sourav Ganguly	India	2008	2010	40	38	2	1031	91	0	7	28.64	110.50	216	8	2/21	7.44	33.50	15	0
Aakash Chopra	India	2008	2009	7	6	0	53	24	0	0	8.83	74.65	0	–	–	–	–	2	0
Debabrata Das	India	2008	2013	33	23	9	347	43*	0	0	24.78	123.92	0	–	–	–	–	7	0

Captains

Last Updated on 19 July 2020

KKR captains

No.	Name	First	Last	Mat	Won	Lost	Tie	NR	Win%
1	Sourav Ganguly	2008	2010	27	13	14	0	0	48.14
2	Brendon McCullum	2009	2009	13	3	9	1	0	26.92
3	Gautam Gambhir	2011	2017	108	61	46	1	0	56.48
4	Dinesh Karthik	2018	2020	37	19	17	1	0	51.35
5	Eoin Morgan	2020	2021	24	11	12	1	0	45.83

Source: ESPNcricinfo ^[4]

References

1. "Kolkata Knight Riders / Records / Twenty20 matches / List of captains". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
2. "Kolkata Knight Riders / Records / Twenty20 matches / Batting averages". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 22 January 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
3. "Kolkata Knight Riders / Records / Twenty20 matches / Bowling averages". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 22 January 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
4. "Kolkata Knight Riders Captains". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 July 2020.

1. A century made is not listed as an additional half century.
2. This does not include illegal deliveries like no-balls and wides.
3. The BBI has not been provided for those bowlers who have not taken any wicket while playing for RR.
4. Average runs concede by bowlers while playing for RR.
5. The Win–loss percentage is calculated using the formula:
   ${\displaystyle {\frac {Wins+{\frac {1}{2}}Ties}{Games}}}$
6. The information in the nationality column is according to ESPNcricinfo. This information may not necessarily reflect the player's birthplace or citizenship.