IPL 2025: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Schedule and Match Timings, Home and Away
Defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) get their title defence underway at home in the opening match of the IPL 2025 season. The Shah Rukh Khan owned side will be looking carry on from their dominant performance from last season in this new season.
KKR in IPL 2024
KKR was the best team in the IPL 2024 season. Not only did the side based out of Kolkata won the IPL title, but it was in quite the fashion against the Sunrisers Hyderabad. After bowling out SRH for just 113 runs, KKR chased the target in just 10 overs, about 1 hour before a normal IPL match would end.
KKR were the most dominant team throughout the season as they finished at the top of the table under Shreyas Iyer’s leadership with 9 wins, 3 losses and 2 matches were abandoned during the league phase, accumulating a total of 20 points.
KKR IPL 2025 Schedule
As the traditional norm of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the defending champions gets to play the season opener at home, thus Kolkata Knight Riders will begin their new season at home against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) on Saturday, 22nd February 2025 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. The two teams will also square-off in the final league phase match too.
KKR will travel to Guwahati for the 2nd match of the season in Barsapara Stadium to take on Rajasthan. They will be on the road again to take on Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. Below is the full match schedule for KKR in IPL 2025.
| Date | Match | Venue | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 22 | KKR vs RCB | Eden Gardens – Kolkata | 7:30 PM |
| March 26 | RR vs KKR | Barsapara Cricket Stadium- Guwahati | 7:30 PM |
| March 31 | MI vs KKR | Wankhede Stadium – Mumbai | 7:30 PM |
| April 3 | KKR vs SRH | Eden Gardens – KKR | 7:30 PM |
| April 6 | KKR vs LSG | Eden Gardens – Kolkata | 3:30 PM |
| April 11 | CSK vs KKR | M.A Chidambaram – Chennai | 7:30 PM |
| April 15 | PBKS vs KKR | Mullanpur Cricket Stadium – Chandigarh | 7:30 PM |
| April 21 | KKR vs GT | Eden Gardens – Kolkata | 7:30 PM |
| April 26 | KKR vs PBKS | Eden Gardens – Kolkata | 7:30 PM |
| April 29 | DC vs KKR | Arun Jaitley Stadium – Delhi | 7:30 PM |
| May 4 | KKR vs RR | Eden Gardens – Kolkata | 7:30 PM |
| May 7 | KKR vs CSK | Eden Gardens – Kolkata | 7:30 PM |
| May 10 | SRH vs KKR | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium – Hyderabad | 7:30 PM |
| May 17 | RCB vs KKR | M. Chinnaswamy – Bengaluru | 7:30 PM |
KKR Squad for IPL 2025
Retained Players: Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh.
New Additions: Rovman Powell, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Luvnith Sisodia, Ajinkya Rahane, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Moeen Ali, Mayank Markande, Vaibhav Arora, Anrich Nortje, Spencer Johnson, Umran Malik.
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