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The 2020 season was the 13th season for the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). They were one of the eight teams that competed in the 2020 Indian Premier League . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The franchise previously qualified for the IPL playoffs in 2011 and won the tournament in 2012 and 2014 .
A total of 971 players including 258 overseas players have registered for the 2019 IPL Auctions, wheres a maximum of 73 positions are to be filled. [16] Later, the Governing Council sent the eight franchises the final list of players, which has been trimmed from the original 971 to 332, including 19 Indian capped players.
Up until 2021, the IPL tournament involved each team playing every other team twice in a home-and-away, double round-robin format. [13] [14] From 2022, the ten teams were divided into two groups of five. A random draw was used to determine the groups and who plays whom across the groups once and twice.
It includes players to have featured for the team in one or more matches across IPL and CLT20. Players ... KKR captains No. Name ... 2020: 37: 19: 17: 1: 0 51.35 5 ...
Before IPL 2020, KKR released 11 players from their squad and also traded in Siddhesh Lad from Mumbai Indians. At the 2020 IPL Auction, KKR bought pace bowler Pat Cummins for ₹15.5 crores. This was the biggest buy in the auction. [55] KKR also purchased Eoin Morgan, who just came off as captain of the World Cup winning England squad.
On 2 August 2020, it was announced that the tournament would be played between 19 September and 10 November 2020 in the United Arab Emirates.The tagline was Ab Khel bolega: (Now game will speak.) [2] [3] [4] On 4 August 2020, Vivo pulled out as the title sponsor of the Indian Premier League (IPL) for the 2020 edition.
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.
Both the teams played the inaugural match of the Indian Premier League.RCB won the first toss of the tournament and elected to bowl. KKR batting first, posted a mammoth total of 222 runs for 3 wickets in 20 overs due to a marvellous inning played by Brendon McCullum who scored 158* in 73 balls and became the first centurion of the tournament.