{"id":22934,"date":"2025-12-18T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=672654"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:46:03","slug":"kkr-ipl-2026-probable-playing-xi-full-squad-biggest-buys-squad-composition-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/kkr-ipl-2026-probable-playing-xi-full-squad-biggest-buys-squad-composition-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"KKR IPL 2026: Probable playing XI, Full squad, biggest buys, squad composition and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) emerged as one of the most aggressive franchises at the <strong>IPL 2026 mini-auction in Abu Dhabi<\/strong>, snapping up <strong>three of the six most expensive players<\/strong> sold on Tuesday and reshaping their squad for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time champions made headlines by spending a massive <strong>Rs 25.20 crore on Australian all-rounder Cameron Green<\/strong>, one of the biggest deals of the auction. KKR further strengthened their bowling attack by signing <strong>Sri Lankan pace sensation Matheesha Pathirana for Rs 18 crore<\/strong>, addressing their need for a reliable death-overs specialist.<\/p>\n<p>After releasing Quinton de Kock, KKR also moved swiftly to rebuild their wicketkeeping department. The franchise brought in <strong>New Zealand duo Finn Allen and Tim Seifert<\/strong>, along with <strong>Tejasvi Singh<\/strong>, ensuring depth and flexibility behind the stumps.<\/p>\n<h3>KKR IPL 2026 squad composition<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Wicketkeepers:<\/strong><br \/>\nFinn Allen, Tim Seifert, Tejasvi Singh<\/p>\n<p><strong>Batters:<\/strong><br \/>\nAjinkya Rahane, Rovman Powell, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Rahul Tripathi<\/p>\n<p><strong>All-rounders:<\/strong><br \/>\nAnukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine, Cameron Green, Sarthak Ranjan, Daksh Kamra, Rachin Ravindra<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fast bowlers:<\/strong><br \/>\nUmran Malik, Matheesha Pathirana, Vaibhav Arora, Kartik Tyagi, Mustafizur Rahman, Akash Deep<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spinners:<\/strong><br \/>\nVarun Chakaravarthy, Prashant Solanki<\/p>\n<h3>KKR probable playing XI for IPL 2026<\/h3>\n<p>Ajinkya Rahane (c), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Rinku Singh, Cameron Green, Tejasvi Singh (wk), Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Matheesha Pathirana<\/p>\n<p><strong>Impact Player:<\/strong> Vaibhav Arora<\/p>\n<h3>KKR IPL 2026 full squad<\/h3>\n<p>Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Cameron Green, Finn Allen, Matheesha Pathirana, Tejasvi Singh, Kartik Tyagi, Prashant Solanki, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert, Mustafizur Rahman, Sarthak Ranjan, Daksh Kamra, Rachin Ravindra, Akash Deep.<\/p>\n<p>With a power-packed mix of proven match-winners, explosive overseas talent and a strong Indian core, KKR have clearly signalled their intent to mount a serious title challenge in <strong>IPL 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) emerged as one of the most aggressive franchises at the IPL 2026 mini-auction in Abu Dhabi,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}