Kolkata Knight Riders Team Members Names 2014 - Pepsi IPL 7 KKR Team Players List
Pepsi IPL 2014 Season 7 Kolkata Knight Riders (Abbreviated as KKR) is a cricket franchise representing Kolkata in the Indian Premier League and owned by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's company Red Chillies Entertainment in partnership with actress Juhi Chawla and her husband Jay Mehta from the Mehta Group.
The team is now captained by Gautam Gambhir and coached by Trevor Bayliss, a former Australian cricketer. The bowling legend, Wasim Akram is the team's bowling consultant and mentor. Sourav Ganguly, who was the team's Icon Player for the first three seasons, captained the side in the first and third seasons of the tournament while Brendon McCullum led the team in the intervening period.
The team won its primary title in 2012 by defeating defending champions Chennai Super Kings by 5 wickets at their home ground in Chennai. The official theme of the team is Korbo, Lorbo, Jeetbo Re (We will do, we will Fight, We will Win) and the official colors are purple and gold. The brand value of the Kolkata Knight Riders was expected at $57.5 million in 2011, ranking third amongst all ten teams.
The team's concert, however, better from the fourth season as it qualified for the IPL playoffs and made it to the Champions League Twenty20. They finally became the IPL champions for the first time in 2012. Nokia is the official founding sponsor of the Kolkata Knight Riders.
Following are the players retained by Kolkata Knight Riders
- Gautam Gambhir (Captain)
- Sunil Narine
KKR Players Final List in IPL 2014 Season 7
- Jacques Kallis
- Robin Uthappa
- Yusuf Pathan
- Shakib Al Hasan
- Umesh Yadav
- R Vinay Kumar
- Morne Morkel
- Piyush Chawla
- Laxmi Ratan Shukla
- Manish Pandey
- Suryakumar Yadav
- Manvinder Bisla
- Ryan Ten Doechate
- Kuldeep Singh Yadav
- Veer Pratap Singh
- Chris Lynn
- Andre Russell
- SS Mandal
- Patrick Cummins
- Debabrata Das
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