Nitish Rana’s seven-year-old association with Kolkata Knight Riders has ended. The franchise didn’t bid for him in the IPL 2025 mega auction. The franchise’s move didn’t please Rana’s wife, Saachi Marwah, who shared a tweet on X.
“Loyalty is very expensive, not everyone can afford it,” she wrote on X.
https://twitter.com/MarwahSaachi/status/1861083489665274155
Rajasthan Royals bought the left-handed batter for INR 4.20 crore. Apart from Rajasthan, Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bengaluru also showed interest in the player.
KKR spend INR 23.75 crore on Venkatesh Iyer. Meanwhile, Nitish Rana joined KKR for INR 3.40 crore and was resigned by the franchise for INR 8 crore at the IPL 2022 mega auction.
In 88 games for the three-time champions, he scored 2,199 runs at a strike rate of 136.32 and is the fourth-highest run-getter for Kolkata in the tournament’s history.
Kolkata Knight Riders Squad for IPL 2025
Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Markande, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Spencer Johnson, Luvnith Sisodia, Ajinkya Rahane, Anukul Roy, Moeen Ali, Umran Malik, Rinku Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Anrich Nortje