Gautam Gambhir Returns To Kolkata After 7 Years Amid Huge Fanfare Ahead Of IPL 2024 – WATCH VIDEO

Earlier, he was the captain and under his captaincy, the franchise lifted the trophy two times in 2012 and 2014.

Gambhir joined Knight Riders in 2011 and was with the team till 2017. During the period, KKR qualified for the IPL playoffs five times (including the two years they won the tournament) and also reached the final of the now-defunct Champions League T20 in 2014.

Kolkata fans gone crazy after the World Cup winner reached Kolkata ahead of the upcoming season, the video of Gambhir has went viral on social media, here is the clip:

Earlier, Gambhir was with Lucknow Super Giants as their mentor. There will be one more change in KKR for the upcoming season of the cash-rich league. Their skipper Shreyas Iyer who missed the last season due to back injury will also make a comeback in lead the team.

However, there are some reports that Iyer will miss the initial matches due to back spasm he got during the recently concluded Ranji Tropy.

Apart from this KKR has also brought Mitchell Starc for a whopping sum of Rs 24.75 crore. KKR spent 25 percent of their entire purse to buy Australia speedster.

KKR Squad

Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Phil Salt, Sunil Narine, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, KS Bharat, Chetan Sakariya, Mitchell Starc, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain.