Kolkata Knight Riders, the franchise representing Kolkata in the Indian Premier League (IPL), was captained by Saurav Ganguly, an 'Icon Player' in 2008, who also led the Indian cricket team in the past. Coached by Trevor Bayliss, the team has gold and black as its official colors and Eden Gardens as its home ground. It was bought by Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment, in partnership with Juhi Chawla Mehta and her husband, Jai Mehta, for the price of US$ 75.09 million.Kolkata Knight Riders started IPL 2008 tournament on a good note, winning the first as well as the second match. However, it lost the next four matches, won three and lost the next three. After rain washed out its match against Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata Knight Riders was out of the semi-finals. With poor performance through the first three years of the tournament. The team's performance, however, improved from the fourth season as it qualified for the IPL playoffs and made it to the Champions League Twenty20. They eventually became the IPL champions for the first time in 2012 in fifth edition of IPL and repeats same in 2014.
It was a steal for KKR when they got a hard-hitting batsman like Colin Munro for his base price while they didn't have to spend too much to get hold of the West Indian skipper Holder. Having already retained the bulk of their squad, KKR concentrated on adding strength to their bench.
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.
Logo
The logo of Kolkata Night Riders has a black background, with a blazing golden Viking helmet on it, along with the team's name.
Year wise Team Performance
Year - Position
2008 - Sixth
2009 - Eighth
2010 - Sixth
2011 - Fourth
2012 - Winner
2013 - Seventh
2014 - Winner
2015 - Fifth
2016 - Fourth
2017 - Third
2018 - Third
2019 - Fifth
Kolkata Knight Riders 2020 full squad
Batsmen:
- Nitish Rana - India
- Rinku Singh - India
- Shubman Gill - India
- Eoin Morgan - England
- Siddhesh Lad - India
- Rahul Tripathi - India
All-rounders
- Andre Russell - Jamaica
- Sunil Narine - West Indies
- Kamlesh Nagarkoti - India
- Chris Green - Australia
Wicket-keepers
- Dinesh Karthik (Captain) - India
- Tom Banton - England
- Nikhil Naik - India
Bowlers
- Harry Gurney - England
- Kuldeep Yadav - India
- Shivam Mavi - India
- Prasidh Krishna - India
- Sandeep Warrier - India
- Lockie Ferguson - New Zealand
- Pat Cummins - Australia
- Varun Chakravarthy - India
- Manimaran Siddharth - India
Administration and Support Staffs/Coaches:
- Owners - Red Chillies Entertainment (55% shareholder), Mehta Group (45% shareholder)
- CEO and Managing Director - Venky Mysore (India)
- Head coach - Brendon McCullum
- Assistant coach - Abhishek Nayar
- Mentor - David Hussey
- Bowling coach - Kyle Mills
- Spin bowling coach - Carl Crowe
- Physiotherapist - Kamlesh Jain
- Strength and conditioning coach - Chris Donaldson
- Data and video analyst - AR Srikkanth
