2018 Kolkata Knight Riders season

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The 2018 season was the 11th season for the Indian Premier League franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). Dinesh Karthik captained the team for the season. The KKR finished the season in the third place.

Squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Year signed	Salary	Notes
Batsmen
3	Rinku Singh	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Template:INRConvert
27	Nitish Rana	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Template:INRConvert
37	Robin Uthappa	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2018	Template:INRConvert	Vice-captain
50	Chris Lynn	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
77	Shubman Gill	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Template:INRConvert
99	Ishank Jaggi	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	2018	Template:INRConvert
24	Cameron Delport	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm medium	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
All-rounders
12	Andre Russell	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
74	Sunil Narine	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
86	Javon Searles	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2018	dateTemplate:INRConvert	Overseas
Wicket-keepers
19	Dinesh Karthik	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Template:INRConvert	Captain
Bowlers
21	Piyush Chawla	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break	2018	Template:INRConvert
23	Kuldeep Yadav	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Slow left-arm wrist-spin	2018	Template:INRConvert
33	Vinay Kumar	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2018	Template:INRConvert
43	Prasidh Krishna	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2018	Template:INRConvert
14	Mitchell Starc	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Left-arm fast	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas

Season

League table

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Results

League matches

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Statistics

Most runs

Name	Matches	Inns	Runs	HS	Avg	SR
Dinesh Karthik	16	16	498	52	49.80	147.77
Chris Lynn	16	16	491	74	32.73	130.23
Sunil Narine	16	16	357	75	22.31	189.89
Robin Uthappa	16	16	351	54	21.93	132.45
Andre Russell	16	16	316	88*	28.72	184.79

Source: ESPNcricinfo^[2]

Most wickets

Name	Matches	Wkts	BBI	Ave	Eco
Kuldeep Yadav	16	17	4/20	24.58	8.14
Sunil Narine	16	17	3/18	27.47	7.65
Piyush Chawla	15	14	3/48	29.42	8.40
Andre Russell	16	13	3/31	27.30	9.38
Prasidh Krishna	7	10	4/30	26.00	9.28

Source: ESPNcricinfo^[3]

References

↑ Tom Curran replaces Starc in Kolkata Knight Riders squad(30 March 2018). Retrieved 2 April 2018.
↑ KKR Most Runs in IPL 2018.
↑ KKR Most Wickets in IPL 2018.

External links

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[1] Tom Curran replaces Starc in Kolkata Knight Riders squad(30 March 2018). Retrieved 2 April 2018.

[2] KKR Most Runs in IPL 2018.

[3] KKR Most Wickets in IPL 2018.

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