Kolkata Knight Riders squad for IPL 2023

• Shreyas Iyer - ₹12.25 crores
• Nitish Rana - ₹8 crores
• Varun Chakravarthy - ₹8 crores
• Anukul Roy - ₹20 lakhs
• Ashok Sharma - ₹55 lakhs
• Tim Southee - ₹1.5 crores
• Andre Russell - ₹12 crores
• Venkatesh Iyer - ₹8 crores
• Sunil Narine  - ₹6 crores
• Rinku Singh - ₹55 lakhs
• Umesh Yadav  - ₹2 crores
• N Jagadeesan - ₹90 Lakhs
• Vaibhav Arora - ₹60 Lakhs
• Rahmanullah Gurbaz - ₹50 Lakhs
• Shardul Thakur - ₹10.75 Crores 
• Lockie Fergsuon - ₹10 Crores
• Suyash Sharma - ₹20 lakhs,
• David Wiese - ₹1 Crore,
• Kulwant Khejroliya - ₹20 lakhs,
• Litton Das - ₹50 Lakhs,
• Mandeep Singh - ₹50 Lakhs,
• Shakib Al Hasan - ₹1.5 Crores

Ahead of the 2023 retention announcement, KKR decided to part ways with a bunch of players notably Pat Cummins. However, before they did that they decided to not wait for the auction as far as the player acquisition was concerned and dipped their feet into the trade market. Not only did they replace Cummins with Ferguson, and get an all-purpose Indian star in the form of Shardul Thakur, they even secured the services of Rahmanullah Gurbaz to ease the pressure on their opening pair. In Shreyas Iyer and Nitish Rana, they have two excellent players with the bat to complement the ever-reliable bowling spine of Sunil Narine and Umesh Yadav. Andre Russell and Rinku Singh have shown their ability with both ball and bat in recent seasons, so it is relatively safe to say that KKR know who their core players are. 

The team needed a wicktekeeper batter and they fulfilled the postion with their first move in the mini auction taking N Jagadeesan for ₹90 Lakhs. They have also added to the fast bowling buying Vaibhav Arora for ₹60 Lakhs. Although they had the least money remaining when entered the auction hall, they did a decent job with that, which included signings of Shakib Al Hasan, Litton Das, and David Wiese.