Kolkata Knight Riders
Owner: Knight Riders Sports Private Ltd
Venue: Eden Gardens
Coach: Bredon McCullum
Captain: Dinesh Karthik
Kolkata Knight Riders IPL Squad 2020
Kolkata Knight Riders
Season: 2020
Coach: Brendon McCullum
Captain: Dinesh Karthik
Ground(s): Eden Gardens
The Kolkata Knight Riders (also known by the acronym KKR) are a franchise cricket team representing the city of Kolkata in the Indian Premier League. The franchise is owned by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, actress Juhi Chawla and her spouse Jay Mehta. The home of the Knight Riders is Eden Gardens, the largest cricket stadium in India and the second largest in the world by seating capacity. The franchise, which has gained immense popularity due to its association with celebrity owners, qualified for the IPL playoffs for the first time in 2011. This also gave them the eligibility to play in the Champions League Twenty20. They eventually became the IPL champions in 2012, by defeating Chennai Super Kings in the final. They repeated the feat in 2014, defeating Kings XI Punjab. The Knight Riders hold the record for the longest winning streak by any Indian team in T20s (14).