- By Himanshu Badola
- Wed, 27 Mar 2024 03:11 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
KKR IPL 2024 Match Schedule: Kolkata Knight Riders clinched a thrilling victory against Sunrisers Hyderabad in their first match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 on Saturday, March 23.
They defeated SRH by just four runs on the very last ball of the match to take the first two points of the season.
The 17th edition of the IPL kicked off on March 22 with the first match played between CSK and RCB.
As per the full schedule announced by the BCCI, a total of 74 matches will be played across 14 venues with each team playing 14 matches.
The tournament will run till May 26 with the final scheduled to be played in Chennai.
Complete List of KKR IPL 2024 Matches, Venues, Dates, Match Timings
Kolkata Knight Riders will face Sunrisers Hyderabad, Chennai Super Kings, Punjab Kings and Gujarat Titans once whereas Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Delhi Capitals, Lucknow Super Giants, Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians twice this season.
They will take on their arch-rivals RCB on March 29 in Bengaluru and on April 21 in Kolkata.
They will be up against lock horns against Rajasthan Royals in their last league matching Guwahati on May 19.
KKR vs SRH - March 23 - 7:30 pm - Kolkata
RCB vs KKR - March 29 - 7:30 pm - Bengaluru
DC vs KKR - April 3 - 7:30 pm - Visakhapatnam
CSK vs KKR - April 8 - 7:30 pm - Chennai
KKR vs LSG - April 14 - 3:30 pm - Kolkata
KKR vs RR - April 17 - 7:30 pm - Kolkata
KKR vs RCB - April 21 - 3:30 pm - Kolkata
KKR vs PBKS - April 26 - 7:30 pm - Kolkata
KKR vs DC - April 29 - 7:30 pm - Kolkata
MI vs KKR - May 3 - 7:30 pm - Mumbai
LSG vs KKR - May 5 - 7:30 pm - Lucknow
KKR vs MI - May 11 - 7:30 pm - Kolkata
GT vs KKR - May 13 - 7:30 pm - Ahmedabad
RR vs KKR - May 19 - 7:30 pm - Guwahati
KKR will be hoping to take the best out of this season with some new faces as Shreyas Iyer returns to captain the side after missing out last season.
The two-time champions also have Mitchell Starc in their squad who ended up becoming the most expensive buy in the history of the IPL.
In the auction that took place in December last year, Starc was bought by KKR for a whopping price of INR 24.75 crore, surpassing his Australian teammate Pat Cummins who joined Sunrisers Hyderabad for INR 20.05 crore.
In another interesting inclusion, KKR brought back Gautam Gambhir who joined them as a mentor after spending two seasons with Lucknow Super Giants.
Gambhir played for KKR from 2011 to 2017 and led them to two IPL titles in the 2012 and 2014 seasons.
KKR finished in the seventh position in the points table last season under the captaincy of Nitish Rana with six wins and 12 points under their belt in 14 matches.
KKR IPL 2024 Full Squad: Shreyas Iyer (c), KS Bharat, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ramandeep Singh, Nitish Rana, Sherfane Rutherford, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Phil Salt, Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Vaibhav Arora, Dushmantha Chameera, Harshit Rana, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya, Suyash Sharma, Varun Chakravarthy, Sakib Hussain