Ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction, Kolkata Knight Riders bought Rinku Singh (13 crore), Varun Chakraborty (12 crore), Sunil Narine (12 crore), Andre Russell (12 crore), Harshit Rana (4 crore) and Ramandeep Singh (4 crore). ) was retained. The team had entered the auction with a purse of Rs 51 crore. The goal of the franchise was to buy top players in a limited budget, in which the team was successful.

KKR bought Venkatesh Iyer for Rs 23.75 crore. Besides, they also got players like Umran Malik, Manish Pandey, Ajinkya Rahane, Moeen Ali and Spencer Johnson at cheap prices. Kolkata does not have Shreyas Iyer, under whose leadership the franchise became champion last season. But overall the team’s squad is quite good.

Meanwhile, cricket commentator Aakash Chopra says that the biggest strength of KKR in the upcoming season (RRR) is Rinku Singh, Andre Russell and Ramandeep Singh. He also emphasized that the middle order of the team is tremendous.

Akash Chopra said this about KKR’s batting lineup

While talking in the video shared on his YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra said,

There is a lot of depth in his batting. They are explosive. They have RRR. Ramandeep is now an Indian player and he has also matured. So Rinku, Russell and Ramandeep are your three batsmen who can bat at numbers four, five and six. This number four, five and six could be one of the better numbers 4 to 6 in the league.

Apart from this, Venkatesh Iyer and Angkrish Raghuvanshi are also there. That’s why there is a lot of power in batting. He has done this work very well. He has continued what he did last year. Last year, Shreyas Iyer had a very small role in batting. Of course, he contributed as captain. Although they do not have Shreyas, Nitish Rana and Phil Salt, RRR have depth and explosiveness in the batting.

No one can hit Varun and Sunil – Chopra

Aakash Chopra also described spinners Varun Chakraborty and Sunil Narine as Kolkata’s strength for the upcoming season. He said, “His spin bowling. It is the same as last year – Varun Chakraborty from one end and Sunil Narine from the other. This is your mystery spin bank of eight overs. Nobody is able to read these spinners or hit them. Everyone struggles against them.”