Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), aiming for a fourth IPL title, retained key players like Rinku Singh and Sunil Narine. They made a record-breaking purcha

Check out three player options that could have been selected in the IPL 2025 auction instead of Venkatesh Iyer for their squad, only on CricTracker.com.

The Knight Riders aimed to re-sign many of the players who were part of their title-winning season, and managed to be successful as well. Look at the best five buys for KKR in the mega auction.

Having failed to retain Venkatesh Iyer, KKR went hard for the all-rounder at the IPL 2025 mega auction and bought him back for a whopping INR 23.75 crores. Vaibhav Arora, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, and Anukul Roy are other players who have returned to the franchise after being released.

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Defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) go into Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 auction seeking a captain after releasing Shreyas Iyer last month. Having retained the core group, KKR enter the auction hall in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with a purse of ₹ 51 crore.

Let's take a look at five 'underpaid' players, who fetched a much lesser fee than expected at the IPL 2025 Mega Auction.

The IPL 2025 season will feature several new opening pairs after the mega auction, except maybe for Delhi Capitals, Kolkata Knight Riders, and Sunrisers Hyderabad, who retain last season's openers. Key changes include Jos Buttler partnering with Shubman Gill for Gujarat Titans and Phil Salt with Virat Kohli for Royal Challengers Bangalore.