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Kolkata Knight Riders
Personnel
Captain	Sourav Ganguly
Coach	John Buchanan
Team information
Founded	2008
Home ground	Eden Gardens

The Kolkata Twenty20 franchise is an still unnamed franchise representing Kolkata in the Indian Premier League.

Franchise History

IPL Kolkata is a franchise of the eight team Indian Premier League. It was bought on January 24 2008 by Red Chillies Entertainment in partnership with Juhi Chawla and Jay Mehta.

Etymology

Players

Sourav Ganguly is the designated icon player for the Kolkata franchise, he will also be the captain. During the player auction IPL Kolkata managed to acquire two genuine fast bowlers in Shoaib Akhtar and Ishant Sharma. The bid of $950,000 for Sharma also made him the highest priced bowler in the league. Additionally IPL Kolkata managed to get Australian captain Ricky Ponting for an surprising low price of $400,000.

Current Squad

No	Name	Age	Batting Style	Bowling/Fielding	Bidding Price
1	Sourav Ganguly (Captain)	35	LHB	RM	Icon Player
2	Ishant Sharma	19	RHB	RF	US$ 950,000
3	Chris Gayle	28	LHB	ROB	US$ 950,000
4	Brendon McCullum	26	RHB	WK	US$ 700,000
5	David Hussey	30	RHB	ROB	US$ 675,000
5	Shoaib Akhtar	32	RHB	RF	US$ 450,000
5	Murali Kartik	31	LHB	LAO	US$ 425,000
5	Ricky Ponting	33	RHB	RM	US$ 400,000
5	Ajit Agarkar	30	RHB	RFM	US$ 350,000
5	Umar Gul	24	RHB	RFM	US$ 150,000