Kolkata Knight Riders, IPL 2025: Kolkata Knight Riders have suffered a major setback before the start of IPL 2025. Speed ​​star Umran Malik is out of the tournament due to injury. In his place, KKR has included left-arm fast bowler Chetan Sakariya in the team.

Kolkata Knight Riders have chosen Chetan Sakariya as the replacement for Umran Malik for the 18th season of the Indian Premier League i.e. IPL 2025. Umran Malik is out of the entire season due to injury. KKR itself has given this information.

Sakariya was in the KKR team last year too, but he did not play a single match and the franchise released him before the auction. Earlier too, Chetan has been a part of Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders apart from Rajasthan Royals in IPL. Now it remains to be seen how Chetan, who is struggling with poor form, capitalizes on this opportunity.

Chetan Sakariya has played international cricket for India. Sakariya has represented India in one ODI and two T20 International matches. He has also played 19 IPL matches, in which he has taken 20 wickets. Left arm fast bowler Chetan Sakariya has been included in the team for Rs 75 lakh.

Chetan Sakariya may have played international cricket for India, but he did not find any buyer in IPL 2025. After this, Sakariya joined the Kolkata Knight Riders team as a net bowler. Now KKR has included him in the team as a replacement for Umran Malik.

IPL 2025 is scheduled to start from March 22. The first match of the 18th season is to be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore. KKR will clash with RCB on March 22. This match will be played at KKR's home ground Eden Gardens. This season, the command of KKR has been handed over to Ajinkya Rahane.

Kolkata Knight Riders Squads for IPL 2025: Ajinkya Rahane (c), Rinku Singh, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Venkatesh Iyer, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Anrich Nortje, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Markande, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Spencer Johnson, Luvnith Sisodia, Anukul Roy, Moeen Ali, Chetan Sakariya.