Sports Desk. Cricket fans are now waiting for the Indian Premier League 2025, which is scheduled to start from March 22. The opening match of the tournament will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore at Eden Gardens.

Before the start of this match, a big news has come about KKR. The news is that fast bowler Umran Malik is out of the tournament due to injury. KKR has now announced the replacement of Umran Malik. Left-arm medium pacer Chetan Sakariya has been included in the team in place of fast bowler Umran Malik.

Chetan Sakariya has taken 20 wickets in IPL 

Let us tell you that Chetan Sakariya has taken 20 wickets in 19 IPL matches so far. He has played one ODI and two T20 matches for Team India. Chetan Sakariya was bought by KKR for Rs 75 lakh. Let us tell you that Chetan Sakariya did not find any buyer in the IPL 2025 auction. Later he was taken as a net bowler in KKR. Chetan Sakariya has previously played IPL for Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Capitals.

KKR squad for the upcoming edition of IPL

is Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Lavnith Sisodia, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Moeen Ali, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Anrich Nortje, Spencer Johnson, Chetan Sakariya, Mayank Markande and Varun Chakravarthy.