IPL 2018: How each franchise might line up

#6 Kolkata Knight Riders

Good combination of some young and experienced players

List of players bought by the KKR at the IPL 2018 auction –

Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Mitchell Starc, Chris Lynn, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Ishank Jaggi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Nitish Rana, Vinay Kumar, Apoorv Wankhade, Rinku Singh, Shivam Mavi, Cameron Delport, Mitchell Johnson, Javin Searless

The two-time champions had to let go of their skipper Gautam Gambhir and some other players as well and tried to completely revamp the squad.

They retained only Narine and Russell and have bought many new players including some U-19 players who recently impressed everyone in the World Cup. Dinesh Karthik will lead this new KKR side and their probable 11 is as follows:

C Lynn; R Uthappa; N Rana; S Gill; D Karthik(c)(wk); A Russell; S Narine; M Starc; V Kumar; K Yadav; K Nagarkoti.

Experienced top order, inform youngsters in the middle order, big hitters down the order and a fearless bowling attack, KKR have everything to start this season on a positive note. They have a good number of Indian batsmen like Karthik, Uthappa, Nitish Rana and Shubman Gill that allows them to go for that extra experienced overseas bowler like Starc.

KKR have changed their side a lot and have come up with a great bowling lineup including pacers like Starc, Russell and quality spinners like Narine and Kuldeep Yadav. In this star-studded lineup, a lot of eyes will be on the young U-19 players, Nagarkoti and Gill, who were in great touch in the recent World Cup win.