Umran Malik ruled ipl 2025 KKR pick Chetan Sakariya as a replacement

Kkr pick chetan sakariya as a replacement for umran malik: Kolkata Knight Riders have suffered a major setback before the start of IPL 2025. Speed ​​star Umran Malik is out of the tournament due to injury. In his place KKR has included left arm fast bowler Chetan Sakaria in the team.

Kolkata Knight Riders have chosen Chetan Sakaria as a replacement of Umran Malik for the 18th season of the Indian Premier League i.e. IPL 2025. Umran Malik is out of the entire season due to injury. KKR himself has given information about this.

Chetan Sakaria has played international cricket for India. Sakaria has represented India in one ODI and two T20 International matches. He has also played 19 IPL matches, in which he has taken 20 wickets. Left arm fast bowler Chetan Sakaria has been included in the team for Rs 75 lakh.

Please tell that even though Chetan Sakaria has played international cricket for India, he did not get any buyer in IPL 2025. After this, Sakaria joined the Kolkata Knight Riders team as a net bowler. Now KKR included him in the team as a replacement of Umran Malik.

KKR will play the first match of IPL 2025

IPL 2025 is to begin from March 22. The first match of the 18th season is to be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore. On March 22, KKR will clash with RCB. The match will be played at KKR’s Home Ground Eden Gardens. The command of KKR has been given to Ajinkya Rahane this season. This time some new players have come to the Kolkata Knight Riders team.

Kolkata Knight Riders’ Potential Playing XI- Quinton Dickock (wicketkeeper), Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Naren, Harshit Rana, Enrique Nortze/Spencer Johnson and Varun Chakraborty.

Impact Player- Mayank Markande