IPL 2021 season was good for Kolkata Knight Riders. There was team effort and some unique aspect was performance of Indian players like V. Iyer, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Shivam Mavi to name a few. It will be very difficult for Kolkata Knight Riders to decide on retention for 2022 season. They also have very good international players like Eoin Morgan, Lockie Ferguson, Tim Southee, Andre Russell, Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine.
Kolkata Knight Riders should focus on retention based on their core strength. Opening pair is very good for them i.e., Shubman Gill and V Iyer. They also have strong 3rd and 4th number batsman with Nitish Rana and Rahul Tripathi. They have three best all-rounders for T20 format i.e. Andre Russel, Sunil Narine and Shakib Al Hasan.
Eoin Morgan and
Dinesh Karthik will be released based on their performance in Indian Premiere
League 2021. They can buy bowlers from mega auction from big pool.
After retention
of four good players, focus of Kolkata Knight Riders should be on building team
specially bowlers, wicket keeper and batsman / all-rounders for 3rd
to 6th spot. After building the team, captain should be decided from
the squad. In mega auction, Kolkata Knight Riders should focus on buying those
players who were part of their team for long period to maintain core of team.
Even if, they will buy all those players similar to 2021 (except Eoin Morgan
and Dinesh Karthik), they will be good to go.
Possible
Retention – Shubman Gill, V Iyer, Andre Russel, Sunil Narine
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