{"id":496216,"date":"2023-12-14T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=496216"},"modified":"2023-12-14T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T11:24:07","slug":"kolkata-knight-riders-shreyas-iyer-ipl-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/kolkata-knight-riders-shreyas-iyer-ipl-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata Knight Riders announce Shreyas Iyer as KKR captain for IPL 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kolkata Knight Riders announced on Thursday that middle-order batsman Shreyas Iyer will return to his role as KKR captain after missing the last season due to injury. Nitish Rana, who was the captain of KKR in the last season, will be team\u2019s vice captain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iyer, who underwent a back surgery in April this year, came back to the national squad for the Asia Cup earlier this year. He was also in top form during the ODI Cricket World Cup that followed and concluded with Australia defeating India in the final to win their sixth crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Quick Update \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IPL2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IPL2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VenkyMysore?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VenkyMysore<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShreyasIyer15?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ShreyasIyer15<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NitishRana_27?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NitishRana_27<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JRBJ5aEHRO\">pic.twitter.com\/JRBJ5aEHRO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KKRiders\/status\/1735223211779125637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KKR CEO, Venky Mysore, said in a press release that it was indeed unfortunate that Shreyas missed IPL 2023 due to injury. He said the KKR is delighted that Shreyas is back and will be captaining the team. The way Shreyas has worked hard to recover from his injury and the form he has displayed is a testament to his character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mysore said the KKR is grateful that Nitish had agreed to step into Shreyas\u2019s shoes last season and did a great job. Mysore added there is no doubt Nitish as vice-captain will support Shreyas in every possible way for the benefit of Team KKR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking about Rana\u2019s contribution, Iyer said he believed the last season presented KKR team with several challenges, including his absence due to injury. Nitish did a great job not only filling in for him but with his commendable leadership. He said he was delighted had named Nitish as vice-captain. He had no doubt this will strengthen the leadership group. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, The Knight Riders also announced the return of Gautam Gambhir to the franchise as mentor. Gambhir had led the KKR to two IPL titles in 2012 and 2014, and was released by the franchise ahead of the 2018 season. Following his retirement, Gambhir had a two year stint in mentorship role with Lucknow Super Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KKR CEO, Venky Mysore, said in a press release that it was indeed unfortunate that Shreyas missed IPL 2023 due to injury. He said the KKR is delighted that Shreyas is back and will be captaining the team. The way Shreyas has worked hard to recover from his injury and the form he has displayed is a testament to his character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":496220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Kolkata Knight Riders announce Shreyas Iyer as KKR captain for IPL 2024","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1525,6,110599],"tags":[2975,71383,96900,88358],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/12\/14165008\/1Shreyas_Iyer-1.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496216"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=496216"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=496216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->