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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.
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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.
| General | Batting | Bowling | Fielding | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | First | Last | Nationality | Mat | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | 100 | 50 | Avg | Balls | Wkt | BBI | Ave | Ca | St |
| Batters | |||||||||||||||||
| Aakash Chopra | 2008 | 2009 |  India | 7 | 6 | - | 53 | 24 | - | 8.83 | - | 2 | - | ||||
| Debabrata Das | 2008 | 2013 | India | 31 | 14 | 8 | 304 | 35 | - | 21.71 | - | 7 | - | ||||
| Cheteshwar Pujara | 2008 | 2010 | India | 10 | 6 | 2 | 122 | 45 | - | 30.50 | - | 2 | - | ||||
| Brad Hodge | 2008 | 2010 |  Australia | 19 | 19 | 2 | 476 | 73 | - | 4 | 29.75 | 150 | 9 | 3/29 | 22.45 | 6 | - |
| Ricky Ponting | 2008 | 2008 | Australia | 4 | 4 | - | 39 | 20 | - | 9.75 | - | 2 | - | ||||
| All-rounders | |||||||||||||||||
| Sourav Ganguly | 2008 | 2010 | India | 40 | 38 | 2 | 1031 | 91 | - | 7 | 27.13 | 216 | 8 | 2/21 | 33.50 | 15 | - |
| Laxmi Ratan Shukla | 2008 | 2013 | India | 42 | 29 | 7 | 374 | 48 | - | 17.00 | 258 | 14 | 3/6 | 31.93 | 13 | - | |
| Chris Gayle | 2008 | 2010 |  Jamaica | 16 | 15 | 1 | 463 | 88 | - | 2 | 30.87 | 199 | 5 | 1/4 | 59.20 | 2 | - |
| Ajit Agarkar | 2008 | 2010 | India | 27 | 16 | 9 | 160 | 39 | - | 22.86 | 474 | 18 | 3/25 | 38.56 | 2 | - | |
| David Hussey | 2008 | 2010 | Australia | 23 | 23 | 4 | 511 | 71 | - | 2 | 26.90 | 162 | 2 | 1/23 | 122.00 | 10 | - |
| Bowlers | |||||||||||||||||
| Iqbal Abdulla | 2008 | 2013 | India | 33 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 12 | 0 | 0 | – | 614 | 28 | 3/24 | 20.07 | 8 | 0 |
| Murali Karthik | 2008 | 2010 | India | 26 | 7 | 2 | 73 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 14.60 | 526 | 16 | 3/17 | 36.32 | 10 | 0 |
| Ajantha Mendis | 2008 | 2009 |  Sri Lanka | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 168 | 6 | 2/19 | 34.50 | 2 | 0 |
| Ishant Sharma | 2008 | 2010 | India | 31 | 15 | 7 | 33 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 4.13 | 667 | 26 | 2/9 | 33.23 | 5 | 0 |
| Umar Gul | 2008 | 2008 |  Pakistan | 6 | 4 | 1 | 39 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 13.00 | 135 | 12 | 4/23 | 15.33 | 0 | 0 |
| Ranadeb Bose | 2008 | 2009 | India | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12 | 0 | 0/24 | – | 0 | 0 |
| Last updated: 19 July 2020 [1] [2] [3] | |||||||||||||||||
Last Updated on 19 July 2020
| 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]
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