2023 Kolkata Knight Riders season

The 2023 cricket season was the 16th season for the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). The franchise had won the IPL title twice in 2012 and 2014. The franchise had also qualified for the playoffs for three consecutive years in 2016, 2017 and 2018 as well as in 2021, when they were the runners up. In 2023, KKR failed to qualify for the playoffs for the second season in a row, finishing in the seventh place.

Background
The team retained four players from the 2022 season ahead of the 2023 Auction
 * Retained: Shreyas Iyer, Andre Russell, Varun Chakravarthy, Venkatesh Iyer, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, Harshit Rana


 * Released: Pat Cummins, Shivam Mavi, Sam Billings, Aaron Finch, Alex Hales, Ajinkya Rahane, Mohammad Nabi, Sheldon Jackson, Ashok Sharma, Chamika Karunaratne, Abhijeet Tomar, Baba Indrajith, Pratham Singh, Ramesh Kumar, Rasikh Salam Dar


 * Trade: Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Rahmanullah Gurbaz

Squad

 * Players with international caps are listed in bold
 * Ages given as of 31 March 2023, the date of the first match of the season
 * Source: Kolkata Knight Riders

Most runs

 * Source: https://www.iplt20.com/stats/

Most wickets

 * Source: https://www.iplt20.com/stats/