There will be a mini auction in December before the 19th edition of the Indian Premier League, before that the retention list will be released tomorrow on Saturday. Before this, Kolkata Knight Riders team has taken a big step. After the appointment of Shane Watson on Thursday, the team announced on Friday that Tim Southee has been appointed as the bowling coach.

Kolkata Knight Riders has appointed Abhishek Nair as the head coach, who has replaced Chandrakant Pandit. The franchise had announced on Thursday that former Australian all-rounder Shane Watson has been appointed as the assistant coach. On the appointment, Watson had said, “It is a great honor for me to be a part of such an iconic franchise like Kolkata Knight Riders.” Now Tim Saudi has entered KKR as another foreign coach, who has played for the franchise for 3 years.

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— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) November 14, 2025

Tim Saudi has played 14 matches for KKR

Saudi played a total of 14 matches for Kolkata Knight Riders from 2021 to 2023, in which he has a total of 19 wickets in his name. The 2022 edition was brilliant for him, where he took 14 wickets in 9 matches.

KKR Squad (before the release of retention list)

• Rinku Singh (13 crores)
• Andre Russell (12 crores)
• Sunil Narine (12 crores)
• Varun Chakraborty (12 crores)
• Harshit Rana (4 crores)
• Ramandeep Singh (4 crores)
• Angkrish Raghuvanshi (3 crores)
• Rovman Powell (1.50 crore)
• Manish Pandey (75 lakhs)
• Ajinkya Rahane (1.50 crore)
• Quinton de Kock (3.60 crores)
• Rahmanullah Gurbaz (2 crores)
• Lavnith Sisodia (30 crores)
• Venkatesh Iyer (23.75 crores)
• Anukul Roy (40 crores)
• Moeen Ali (2 crores)
• Mayank Markande (30 lakhs)
• Anrich Nortje (6.50 crores)
• Vaibhav Arora (1.80 crore)
• Spencer Johnson (2.80 crores)
• Umran Malik (75 lakhs)