By Karthik Iyengar
Reviewed by Anjali DeshmukhKolkata Knight Riders appear in 11 of our Indian Premier League tables, from 2009/10 to 2026, with 76 wins and 79 defeats from 156 league matches. Their best finish in this set is 2, in 2014; their lowest is 7, in 2013, 2022, 2023, 2026.
Across those 156 matches they scored 24231 runs and conceded 24355. By net run rate their strongest season here was 2021 at +0.587, the weakest 2009/10 at -0.341 — a measure that ignores how close the finishes were. They took the title in 2014.
Season by season
League-stage record by season
Season | Pos | P | W | L | NRR | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7 / 10 | 14 | 6 | 7 | -0.156 | 13 | |
7 / 10 | 14 | 6 | 8 | -0.244 | 12 | |
7 / 10 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0.146 | 12 | |
4 / 8 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0.587 | 14 | |
5 / 8 | 14 | 7 | 7 | -0.230 | 14 | |
5 / 8 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0.031 | 12 | |
3 / 8 | 14 | 8 | 6 | -0.053 | 16 | |
3 / 8 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0.233 | 16 | |
2 / 8 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0.453 | 18 | |
7 / 9 | 16 | 6 | 10 | -0.095 | 12 | |
6 / 8 | 14 | 7 | 7 | -0.341 | 14 |
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Who played in 2026
These are the 19 players who actually took the field for Kolkata Knight Riders in the 2026 season, read from the ball-by-ball archive rather than from a squad announcement. Names appear in scorecard form, as the match records write them.
A Raghuvanshi
AM Rahane
AS Roy
B Muzarabani
C Green
CV Varun
FH Allen
Kartik Tyagi
M Pathirana
MK Pandey
Navdeep Saini
R Powell
RK Singh
Ramandeep Singh
SP Narine
SR Dubey
T Dahiya
TL Seifert
VG Arora