Kolkata knight riders: Defending Champion Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has announced its new captain. Kolkata Knight Riders have made the player's most expensive player Venkatesh Iyer, but a player purchased for the base prize 1.5 crore in the IPL auction (IPL 2025). In IPL 2025, three -time champion team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will be commanded by a 36 -year -old player.

This player becomes KKR's captain

Ajinkya Rahane (Ajinkya Rahane) had a base prize of 1.50 crores in the Indian Premier League 2025 (IPL 2025) mega auction. In this prize, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) bought the player. While Venkatesh Iyer, priced at 23.75 crores for KKR, is the most expensive player of the season. But KKR has chosen Ajinkya Rahane as the captain of 2025.

While Venkatesh Iyer will be the vice-captains of the team. Let me tell you, Ajinkya Rahane is the 9th captain of KKR. Prior to him, Sourav Ganguly (27 matches), Brendon McCul (13 matches), Gautam Gambhir (122 matches), Jax Kallis (2 matches), Dinesh Karthik (37 matches), Eoin Morgan (24 matches), Shreyas Iyer (29 matches) and Nitish Rana (14 matches) have captained the team.

Why did Ajinkya Rahane make captain

Why has Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) made Ajinkya Rahane the captain. This was answered by KKR CEO Venki Mysore. KKR CEO Venki Mysore said

'We are very happy to find a player like Ajinkya Rahane. As a leader, he brings experience and maturity with him. Also Venkatesh Iyer has been a franchise player for KKR and has many qualities of leadership. We are confident that they will keep a good synergy between the two to start our title protecting the title.

Rahane has 185 IPL matches experience

Ajinkya Rahane has played 185 matches of IPL. In which he has scored an average of 30.14 and the strike rate from 123.42 to 4642 runs. Which includes 2 centuries and 30 half -centuries. Rahane has played 85 Tests, 90 ODIs and 10 T20 matches for Team India. Let us tell you, in the last season, the Kolkata team won the IPL 2024 title under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer. But this time Shreyas Iyer is part of the Punjab Kings (PBKS) with a price of 26.75 crores. However, Rahane will be expected to help make KKR champions.

IPL 2025 Kolkata Squad-

Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Venkatesh Iyer (Vice -captain), Sunil Naren Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Varun Chakraborty, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh, Quinton Dickock, Rehmanullah, Enrichullah, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Vaibhav Arora, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Markande, Rowman Powell, Manish Powell, Manish Powell Sisodia, favorable Roy, Moin Ali, Umran Malik

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🚨 🚨 - ajinkya rahane named captain of kkr. Venkatesh Iyer named Vice-Captain of Kkr for Tata IPL 2025. pic.twitter.com/f6raccqkmw

- kolkataknightriders (@kkriders) March 3, 2025