Kolkata Knight Rider came into the auction with the smallest auction kitty, of Rs 7.05 crore while they still had 11 empty slots in their line-up.
Pat Cummins, Alex Hales and Sam Billings pulled out of the 2023 season before the auction, to focus on international cricket and KKR traded in Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson and Rahmanullah Gurbaz in the off season.
IPL Auction 2023: Full Squad of Kolkata Knight Riders
Shreyas Iyer (c)
Rahmanullah Gurbaz
Rinku Singh
Andre Russell
Sunil Narine
Nitish Rana
Anukul Roy
Venkatesh Iyer
Shardul Thakur
Tim Southee
Lockie Ferguson
Umesh Yadav
CV Varun
Harshit Rana
Shakib Al Hasan
N. Jagadeesan
Vaibhav Arora
David Wiese
Mandeep Singh
Litton Das
Suyash Sharma
Kulwant Khejroliya
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