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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) are a professional T20 franchise cricket team representing the city of Kolkata in the Indian Premier League. The franchise is owned by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, actress Juhi Chawla, and her spouse Jay Mehta. Their home ground is the Eden Gardens, Kolkata. [1]
In 2008, Red Chillies acquired ownership rights for the franchise representing Kolkata in the Twenty20 cricket tournament Indian Premier League, for a price of US$75.09 million, and have since named the team Kolkata Knight Riders. KKR is the richest team in the IPL and it has been ranked as the most valued with a brand value of $42.1 million. [88]
Red Chillies Entertainment also owns the Indian Premier League's Kolkata Knight Riders; this was the first time an IPL team had invested in a Twenty20 cricket league outside India. [1] In 2016, Red Chillies Entertainment took over the team's operations and changed the name to the Knight Riders.
The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) are a franchise cricket team based in Kolkata, India, which plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). They are one of the ten teams that are competing in the Indian Premier League. Their current captain is Shreyas Iyer and their coach is Chandrakant Pandit.
The Indian Premier League, also known as IPL and Tata IPL for sponsorship reasons, is a men's T20 cricket league held annually in India.Founded by the BCCI in 2007, the league features ten state or city-based franchise teams.
The rivalry between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore is one of the oldest in the IPL. The inaugural match of IPL was played between both the teams in which KKR won by 140 runs due to a 158* off just 73 balls by Brendon McCullum. [146] In the IPL 2009, RCB won in both encounters against Knight Riders. During the second time ...
With a US$6 billion asset base and US$4.3 billion revenue, this multinational conglomerate is headquartered in Kolkata. He also owns the IPL cricket team Lucknow Super Giants [9] and the ISL football team Mohun Bagan. [10] As per the Forbes 2022 report, [11] he is the 83rd richest person in India and overall 1238th in the world.
KKR went into the auction with a budget of 35.65 crores INR. They bought Australian bowler Pat Cummins for 15.50 Cr, which was the highest amount ever for an overseas player at the auction. They also bought England captain Eoin Morgan (for 5.25 Cr), Rahul Tripathi , Tom Banton and Chris Green, and 48-year-old leg-spinner Praveen Tambe, who was ...