Money was spent like water on Cameron Green and Mathisha Pathirana, see the complete squad of Kolkata Knight Riders here

IPL 2026 KKR Squad: Kolkata Knight Riders bid Rs 25.20 crore for Cameron Green in the IPL 2026 mini auction. With this, Green became the most expensive foreign player to be sold in IPL history. Earlier, Kolkata had made this record by purchasing Mitchell Starc for Rs 24.75 crore. Now the team has maintained this record.

The team also made a big bid on Sri Lankan fast bowler Mathisha Pathirana. Pathirana, who came in the auction with a base price of Rs 2 crore, was bought by the team for Rs 18 crore. Apart from this, the team also made a big bid of Rs 9.20 crore on Bangladesh fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman.

KKR had the highest purse (IPL 2026 KKR Squad)

Let us tell you that Kolkata Knight Riders team had entered the auction with the biggest purse. The team had a purse of Rs 64.30 crore. The team had to fill a total of 13 slots, out of which 6 slots were for foreign players.

Players bought in auction (IPL 2026 KKR Squad)

Cameron Green (25.20 crores)

Finn Allen (2 crores)

Mathisha Pathirana (18 crores)

Karthik Tyagi (30 lakhs)

Prashant Solanki (30 lakhs)

Rahul Tripathi (75 lakhs)

Tim Seifert (1.50 crore)

Mustafizur Rahman (9.20 crores)

Tejashwi Dahiya (3 crores)

Sarthak Ranjan (30 lakhs)

Daksh Room (30 Lakh)

Rachin Ravindra (2 crores)

Akashdeep (1 crore)

KKR’s retained players (IPL 2026 KKR Squad)

Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakraborty.

KKR’s performance last season

In the last season i.e. 2025 IPL, the performance of Kolkata Knight Riders was very poor. The team could win only 5 out of 14 league matches, with which they had to finish at 8th position in the points table.