Kolkata Knight Riders: Squad, schedule and possible playing 11 for IPL 2022

IPL 2022: On the basis of the new rule, where each team doesn't play the other twice in the league, catch the full schedule of Kolkata Knight Riders for this season's IPL here

If there is a team that has not been able to garner the best out of its potential since its last championship win in 2014, it is KKR. The Knight Riders have always had a great team at their disposal and unlike Punbjab Kings or the Rajsthan Royals, they aren't just blown away at the start of the league either.

The problem starts at the end of the season where they linger around the fourth or fifth position in the Points Table and eventually are either relegated before the Playoffs or after reaching it, before even making it to the final. This time, with a breath of fresh air in terms of Shreyas Iyer as captain, the Knights would look to conquer the final frontier and win their third IPL title. 

IPL 2022 KKR Squad

Andre Russell, Varun Chakravarthy, Venkatesh Iyer, Sunil Narine, Shreyas Iyer, Pat Cummins, Nitish Rana, Shivam Mavi, Sheldon Jackson, Ajinkya Rahane, Rinku Singh, Anukul Roy, Rasikh Dar, Chamika Karunaratne, Baba Indrajith, Ashok Sharma, Pratham Singh, Abhijeet Tomar, Sam Billings, Alex Hales, Ramesh Kumar, Mohammed Nabi, Aman Khan, Umesh Yadav.

IPL 2022: Kolkata Knight Riders Schedule

The 2022 season is unique in the sense that, unlike previous editions, each team will not play the other twice, rather all 10 teams will play only 14 games each. In that regard, they will play five teams twice and four teams just once. To decide, which four teams will the team play once and which five twice, 10 teams are divided into two groups of five each. The group is based on the number of Trophies won and the number of participations in an IPL Final. 

The following is the division of Group

Group 1	Group 2
Mumbai Indians	Chennai Super Kings
Kolkata Knight Riders	Sunrisers Hyderabad
Rajasthan Royals	Royal Challengers Bangalore
Delhi Capitals	Punjab Kings
Lucknow Super Giants	Gujarat Titans

Each team will play all the teams in its own group twice and the team parallel to it in the other group twice. And for the rest of the teams in the other group, the said team will play them only once. For e.eg KKR will play all the teams in its group twice and Sunrisers Hyderabad from the other group twice as well, but the other four teams from Group 1 will play KKR only once. 

On that basis, here is the full schedule of KKR for IPL 2022

Versus (Team)	Venue	Date and Time (IST)	Match Number
Chennai Super Kings	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	26.03.2022, 1930 hrs	01
Royal Challengers Bangalore	DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai	30.03.2022, 1930 hrs	06
Punjab Kings	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	01.04.2022, 1930 hrs	08
Mumbai Indians	MCA Stadium, Pune	06.04.2022, 1930 hrs	14
Delhi Capitals	Brabourne - CCI, Mumbai	10.04.2022, 1930 hrs	19
Sunrisers Hyderabad	Brabourne - CCI, Mumbai	15.04.2022, 1930 hrs	25
Rajasthan Royals	Brabourne - CCI, Mumbai	18.04.2022, 1930 hrs	30
Gujarat Titans	DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai	23.04.2022, 1930 hrs	35
Delhi Capitals	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	28.04.2022, 1930 hrs	41
Rajasthan Royals	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	02.05.2022, 1930 hrs	47
Lucknow Super Giants	MCA Stadium, Pune	07.05.2022, 1930 hrs	53
Mumbai Indians	DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai	09.05.2022, 1930 hrs	56
Sunrisers Hyderabad	MCA Stadium, Pune	14.05.2022, 1930 hrs	61
Lucknow Super Giants	DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai	18.05.2022, 1930 hrs	66

Pat Cummins and Aaron Finch, both the players, who will be in Pakistan for the ODIs and T20Is will miss the early phase of the tournament and even though Finch wasn't sure shot in the Playing 11, Cummins would have to be replaced by either Chamika Karunratne or Mohammad Nabi for initial matches.

IPL 2022 KKR Possible Playing 11

Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer (C), Rinku Singh, Sheldon Jackson (wk), Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy, Lockie Ferguson, Pat Cummins, Shivam Mavi