Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
The Kolkata Knight Riders (also known by the acronym KKR) are a franchise cricket team representing the city of Kolkata in the Indian Premier League. The franchise is owned by Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan, actress Juhi Chawla and her spouse Jay Mehta. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]OWNER: Knight Riders Sports Private Ltd
COACH: Jacques Kallis
VENUE: Eden Gardens
CAPTAIN: Dinesh Karthik[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]SQUAD LIST
- Dinesh Karthik (c)
- Piyush Chawla
- Tom Curran
- Cameron Delport
- Ishank Jaggi
- Mitchell Johnson
- Kuldeep Yadav
- Chris Lynn
- Prasidh Krishna
- Sunil Narine
- Nitish Rana
- Andre Russell
- Javon Searles
- Shivam Mavi
- Shubman Gill
- Rinku Singh
- Robin Uthappa
- Vinay Kumar
- Apporv Wankhade
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]They eventually became the IPL champions for the first time in
2012, by defeating
Chennai Super Kings in the final and repeated the feat in
2014, defeating
Kings XI Punjab.
The Knight Riders hold the record for the longest winning streak by any Indian team in T20s (14).
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