9 matches of IPL 2024 have been played, meanwhile on Friday 29 March, KKR announced the replacement of the player. Afghanistan spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman has now been dropped from the KKR team. In his place, KKR has included a 16-year-old mystery spinner from Afghanistan in the team.
This player got the place
In place of Mujeeb Ur Rahman, 16 year old spinner Mohammad Ghazanfar of Afghanistan has been included in the Kolkata team. Ghazanfar recently made his debut against Ireland. He has played two One Day Internationals. Ghazanfar was paid Rs. by KKR. Rs 20 lakh has been included in the base price. In IPL 2024, KKR won its first match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. This match witnessed Andre Russell's stormy innings.
KKR's new team
Shreyas Iyer (captain), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sunil Narine, Phil Salt, Suyyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakraborty, Mitchell Starc, Mohammad Ghazanfar, Sherfan Ruthford. … , Gus Atkinson, Manish Pandey, KS Bharat, Chetan Sakariya, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh, Saqib Hussain.