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IPL 2021 season runner up ‘Kolkata Knight Riders’ (Kolkata Knight Riders KKR Runner-Up IPL 2021) can make a big announcement about the upcoming season of IPL 2022 at 6 pm today. What this announcement will be, it has not been disclosed yet. It is worth noting that Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have retained 4 players, but for the upcoming season of IPL 2022, the team management has not yet announced the name of the captain of KKR. Now it remains to be seen whether the name of the captain of the team will be announced this evening or there will be news of a famous personality joining the team.
#AjkerAdda: Who else should be joining our Top order in the #GalaxyOfKnights, ____________ pic.twitter.com/dR3O6QwHpk
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) January 26, 2022
The ‘Kolkata Knight Riders’ (KKR) team has already made two big moves regarding the IPL 2022 season. First, 4 players have been retained for the upcoming season. And second, the Indian team’s bowling coach Bharat Arun has been signed as the bowling coach of the KKR team. Before the mega auction of Kolkata Knight Riders IPL 2022, Rs 12 crore to Andre Russell, Rs 8 crore to Varun Chakravarthy, Rs 8 crore to Venkatesh Iyer and Rs 6 crore to Sunil Narine. Retained in Rs.
PS. Don’t forget to Tune in LIVE at 6:00 PM tomorrow for a BIG announcement! pic.twitter.com/ec771CBh4b
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) January 26, 2022
Who can be the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2022
It is worth noting that KKR decided to remove England cricket team captain Eoin Morgan from their team captaincy and talked about appointing a new captain for the upcoming season IPL 2022. KKR do not have much options at the moment. Either the team management make any one of the 4 retained players as the captain, choose someone as the new captain in the mega auction (IPL 2022 Mega Auction) to be held in February.
Something BIG coming up…#KKR #AmiKKR #IPLAuction pic.twitter.com/zdpQU7TKNS
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) January 26, 2022
Now only Rs 48 crore is left in KKR’s account for the purchase of players in the auction for IPL 2022. Earlier this month, the team. Management appointed former bowling coach of the Indian team Bharat Arun as its bowling coach. It is worth mentioning that Bharat Arun was the bowling coach of Team India since 2014 and he played a big role in taking the Indian team to new heights. Remind you that Bharat Arun has also played Test and ODI matches for the Indian team. He was also a successful player of Tamil Nadu team.
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Significantly, Bharat Arun started his coaching career with the Tamil Nadu team. He then became the Chief Bowling Coach with the National Cricket Academy (NCA), Bangalore. Then he was appointed as the head coach of the India U-19 team. During his tenure, the India U-19 team won the U-19 World Cup played in Australia in 2012.
Brendon McCullum, Head Coach, Kolkata Knight Riders said, “Bharat Arun is a warm welcome to the coaching staff of KKR. With a strong and successful career in international cricket, I am confident that Arun (Bharat Arun Balling Coach) will strengthen the team. And I am looking forward to working with him too. His experience at the international level will be needed by the bowlers of our team as we will be with a new team of players.”