In IPL 2025, the pair of Quinton de Kock and Sunil Narayan can be seen opening the innings for the defending champions KKR. It is worth noting that Narayan opened for KKR last season as well. While doing so, he scored 488 runs in 14 matches in 2024 at an average of 34.86 and a strike rate of 180.74.

If we talk about Quinton de Kock, he has been bought by the Knight Riders for Rs 3.60 crore in the mega auction and he has scored 3137 runs playing more than 100 matches in the IPL tournament. Not only this, he can also take over the responsibility of wicketkeeping for KKR, in such a situation he will be the best choice for opening and wicketkeeping.

Kolkata Knight Riders released Mitchell Starc after IPL 2024. In such a situation, now they will need Starc's replacement in the playing XI. Let us tell you that South Africa's veteran fast bowler Anrich Norkhia can play this role.

It is worth noting that Norkhia has experience of 46 IPL matches in which he has taken 60 wickets. He has been bought for Rs 6.5 crore in the mega auction, so he may be included in the XI.

KKR's possible playing XI for IPL 2025 can be like this

Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Sunil Narayan, Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Anrich Norkhia, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty.

Impact Player - Angkrish Raghuvanshi (batter), Umran Malik (fast bowler), Mayank Markande (spin bowler).

This is the full squad of KKR for IPL 2025

Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Sunil Narayan, Manish Pandey, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Anukul Roy, Moeen Ali, Rovman Powell, Lavnith Sisodia, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Enrique Norkhia, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Umran Malik, Mayank Markande, Spencer Johnson.