Kolkata Knight Riders have announced their captain for IPL 2024. Just before the auction for IPL 2024, big news has come from Kolkata Knight Riders. Franchise CEO Venky Mysore has made a big announcement by announcing the names of the captain and vice-captain. He said in the statement that Shreyas Iyer will also be the captain of KKR for IPL 2024, while Nitish Rana will be his deputy. After missing the last season due to injury, Shreyas Iyer will again be seen captaining the team in the 17th season of the Indian Premier League.
Shreyas Iyer is the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in IPL 2024. Kolkata Knight Riders posted on their social media account that Shreyas Iyer will be seen captaining the team again in IPL 2024. At the same time, Nitish Iyer will be seen in the role of Iyer's deputy this season. Shreyas Iyer was not seen playing in IPL 2023 due to back injury, due to which the command of the team was handed over to Nitish Rana.
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Venky said- It was really unfortunate that Shreyas missed IPL 2023 due to injury. We are glad that he is back and will lead the team as captain. The way he has worked hard to recover from his injury and the form he is in is a testament to his character. Let us tell you that even before the start of IPL 2023, Shreyas Iyer got injured and he had to sit out the entire season. In such a situation, Nitish Rana was commanding the team.
| IPL Season | M | R | HS | Avg | S/R | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 14 | 401 | 85 | 30.85 | 134.56 | 0 | 3 | 41 | 11 |
| 2021 | 8 | 175 | 47* | 35.00 | 102.33 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 |
| 2020 | 17 | 519 | 88* | 34.60 | 123.27 | 0 | 3 | 40 | 16 |
| 2019 | 16 | 463 | 67 | 30.86 | 119.94 | 0 | 3 | 41 | 14 |
| 2018 | 14 | 411 | 93* | 37.36 | 132.58 | 0 | 4 | 29 | 21 |
| 2017 | 12 | 338 | 96 | 33.80 | 139.09 | 0 | 2 | 36 | 10 |
| 2016 | 6 | 30 | 19 | 5.00 | 69.76 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 2015 | 14 | 439 | 83 | 33.76 | 128.36 | 0 | 4 | 41 | 21 |
| All IPL | 101 | 2776 | 96 | 31.55 | 125.38 | 0 | 19 | 237 | 99 |
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The performance of Kolkata Knight Riders under the captaincy of Nitish Rana in IPL 2023 was not anything special. Out of 14 matches played in the 16th season of the Indian Premier League, the team could win only 6 matches, while the team had to face defeat in 8 matches. Let us tell you that KKR has won the IPL trophy twice and this time under the captaincy of Iyer, the team would like to win this title for the third time.
Shreyas Iyer (C), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Jason Roy, Sunil Narine, Suyyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakraborty, KS Bharat, Chetan Sakariya, Mitchell Starc, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Gus Atkinson, Saqib Hussain.
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