The KKR team's command is handed over to the player who hits 100 sixes daily, click here to know more!

Even before IPL 2023, Kolkata Knight Riders suffered a major setback when the team's captain batsman Shreyas Iyer was injured. Since then, there was a doubt about his playing continuously and since then his option was being speculated but now the franchise has lifted the curtain on this matter. Kolkata Knight Riders informed that Nitish Rana is going to captain the team in their next season. Nitish Rana has been with the team for a long time and now he will be seen captaining the side.

Nitish Rana is playing for the KKR team since IPL 2018. Earlier he used to play for Mumbai Indians. In 2016, Nitish made his IPL debut with Mumbai. After that in 2017 also he played for Mumbai Indians and then came to Kolkata. Nitish Rana's coach Sanjay Bhardwaj claimed in an interview that Nitish used to hit 100 sixes daily in the nets.

* Will try to make Kolkata successful:

Nothing has been revealed yet for how many matches Shreyas Iyer is out or whether he will not be able to play the entire season. The Kolkata team said in its statement that in the absence of Suresh Iyer, Nitish Rana will captain the team. Along with this, the franchise has raised hopes that at what stage Suresh Iyer will return to the IPL. The Kolkata team pointed out that Rana has good experience of captaining his home state Delhi. In view of this, he has been chosen as the captain. Nitish Rana is backed by coach Chandrakant Pandit and support staff. Kolkata has not won the IPL title since 2014. Rather she has not been able to reach the finals. In such a situation, now under the captaincy of Nitish Rana, the team is going to try its best to achieve success.

* Nitish Rana's IPL career was like this:

Nitish Rana has been playing IPL continuously since 2016. Nitish Rana has played a total of 91 IPL matches so far. In these matches, he has scored a total of 2181 runs at an average of 28.32 and a strike rate of 134.22. During this, a total of 15 half-centuries have come out of Nitish Rana's bat. Rana has also contributed significantly to the team with his bowling many times. Nitish Rana has taken a total of 7 wickets in the IPL. He bowls off-spin and can contribute well to the team.