Kolkata Knight Riders in 2018

The 2018 season was the 11th season for the Indian Premier League franchise Kolkata Knight Riders. Dinesh Karthik was captaining the team for the eleventh season.

Squad

• Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Nat	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Signed year	Salary	Notes
Batsmen
3	Rinku Singh	Template:Flagicon	1997-10-12 (age 29)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Template:INRConvert
27	Nitish Rana	Template:Flagicon	1993-12-27 (age 33)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Template:INRConvert
37	Robin Uthappa	Template:Flagicon	1985-9-11 (age 41)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2018	Template:INRConvert	Vice-captain
50	Chris Lynn	Template:Flagicon	1990-4-10 (age 36)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
77	Shubman Gill	Template:Flagicon	1999-9-8 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Template:INRConvert
99	Eoin Morgan	Template:Flagicon	1989-1-27 (age 37)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	2018	Template:INRConvert
24	Cameron Delport	Template:Flagicon	1989-5-12 (age 37)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
All-rounders
12	Andre Russell	Template:Flagicon	1988-4-29 (age 38)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
74	Sunil Narine	Template:Flagicon	1988-5-26 (age 38)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
86	Javon Searles	Template:Flagicon	1986-12-21 (age 40)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2018	dateTemplate:INRConvert	Overseas
Wicket-keepers
19	Dinesh Karthik	Template:Flagicon	1985-6-1 (age 41)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Template:INRConvert	Captain
Bowlers
21	Piyush Chawla	Template:Flagicon	1988-12-24 (age 38)	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break	2018	Template:INRConvert
23	Kuldeep Yadav	Template:Flagicon	1994-12-14 (age 32)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm wrist-spin	2018	Template:INRConvert
33	Vinay Kumar	Template:Flagicon	1984-2-12 (age 42)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2018	Template:INRConvert
43	Prasidh Krishna	Template:Flagicon	1996-02-19 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2018	Template:INRConvert
14	Mitchell Starc	Template:Flagicon	1990-1-30 (age 36)	Left-handed	Left-arm fast	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas

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Statistics

Most runs

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

• Last Update: 29 May 2018.
• Source: Cricinfo

Most wickets

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

• Last Update: 29 May 2018.
• Template:Color box The player with the most wickets at the end of the tournament receives the Purple Cap.
• Source: Cricinfo