Kolkata Knight Riders head into the auction with 12 slots available having retained 13 of their players from the last season. Four of those slots can be used for overseas players. Their starting budget before the auction was INR 32.7 crore.

KKR squad: Full list of released players before auction

Indian: Aarya Desai, Kulwant Khejroliya, Litton Das, Mandeep Singh, N Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur and Umesh Yadav.

Overseas: David Wiese, Johnson Charles, Litton Das, Lockie Ferguson, Shakib Al Hasan and  Tim Southee

KKR squad: Full team list for Kolkata Knight Riders after IPL 2024 auction

Note – Players bought in the auction have a ‘*’ next to their name

Batters

Jason Roy, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi* (INR 20 lakh), Sherfane Rutherford* (INR 1.50 crore), Manish Pandey* (INR 50 lakh)

Wicketkeepers

Rahmanullah Gurbaz, KS Bharat* (INR 50 lakh)

All-rounders

Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Venkatesh Iyer

Bowlers

Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy, Chetan Sakariya (INR 50 lakh), Mitchell Starc* (INR 24.75 crore), Mujeeb Ur Rahman* (INR 2 crore), Gus Atkinson* (INR 1 crore), Sakib Hussain* (INR 20 lakh)