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Kolkata Knight Riders are the most underperforming team in the IPL history. Inspite of having a great team in the previous editions, the Shah Rukh Khan owned outfit had reached the knockout round only twice out of which they went on to win the 2012 edition. Often they fail to get their team composition right and that […]

Player Name: Brendon McCullam Country: New Zealand Base Price: 20 Million INR Age: 32 Playing Style: Right Handed Batsman, Wicket Keeper IPL represented in the past: Kolkata Knight Riders, Kochi Tuskers Kerala Player’s record in T20 format: Batting Matches: 172 Innings: 169 Runs Scored: 4892 Average: 32.40 Highest Score: 158* Strike Rate: 135.08 50/100: 25/5 4/6: 470/215 Bowling […]

This is a new series begun in Sportzwiki where we profile the top buys of Indian Premier League auction 2014 and dissect the reasons the franchises paid these players such huge money. We first begin with the Prince of Indian cricket, India’s biggest match winner sans Sachin and Dhoni, YUVRAJ SINGH.  He was dropped from the Indian […]

The Indian Premier League is arguably the world’s most famous T20 leagues. It, however, has always been more about controversies and less cricket. Ever since its inception way back in 2008, there has been an abundance of hullabaloo. While cricket no doubt is at the heart of product, controversies knowingly or otherwise helped IPL raise its […]

Player Name: Yusuf Pathan Country: India Base Price:  20 Million INR Age: 32 Playing Style: Right Handed Batsman, Right Arm off Break Bowler IPL represented in the past: Rajasthan Royals, Kolkata Knight Riders Player’s record in T20 format: Batting Matches: 147 Innings: 132 Runs Scored: 2762 Average: 25.57 Highest Score: 100 Strike Rate: 148.97 50/100: 1/12 4/6: 22/151 […]

The cricketing world may soon go to watch the another course of face-off between Shah Rukh Khan and Sourav Ganguly after the time when Ganguly was involved in Kolkata Knight Riders, a franchise owned by King Khan. Only this time the contention will be experienced in the field of football, for Indian Soccer League (ISL), a city […]

The following are the top 10 Indian Premier League innings: 7) Rohit Sharma: 109* (60) – MI vs KKR, 12 May 2012 A clean, classy, almost a perfect (if there ever was one!) Twenty20 hundred are the words which can be used to describe this innings of ever talented Rohit Sharma. Supporters of Rohit Sharma (yes there […]

It was a day of hits and misses, purses and cheque-books, permutations and combinations as some of the best players in the world went under the hammer in the Indian Premier League auction of 2014. Yuvraj Singh took home a massive 14 crore, while Dinesh Karthik’s acquisition for a whopping 12.5 crore was surely a case of […]

The happenings around the auction weren’t particularly auspicious for the league as the Justice Mudgal role indicted former Chennai Super Kings Team Principal Gurunath Meiyappan for his involvement in betting on Indian Premier League games. But still SC allowed the auction to go ahead as scheduled. And Day 1 of the IPL auction for 2014 saw the […]

Kolkata Knight Riders Openers: Gambhir,Uthapa, Middle Order: Kallis,Y.Pathan,Shakib Bowlers: Piyush Chawla,Morne Morkel,Vinay Kumar,Umesh,Narine Our Review: Probably the one team who have spent unwisely this auction. Their preference of high profile players have gone against them in the past and it might have this time around also. When teams place a high bet on current form […]