IPL 2021: Kolkata Knight Riders appoint Nathan Leamon as strategic consultant


IPL 2021: Kolkata Knight Riders appoint Nathan Leamon as strategic consultant
Nathan Leamon

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), who ended the previous IPL edition at number 5, have appointed England’s white-ball analyst Nathan Leamon. Leamon will join the franchise as a strategic consultant ahead of IPL 2021.

Leamon has been England’s white-ball team analyst and head of research and innovation since 2009. The experienced consultant will now be involved with KKR’s auction planning and will work alongside AR Srikkanth, their current performance analyst, during the season, as per a report in ESPNcricinfo.

The report further said that Leamon would take a leave of absence from the ECB during the IPL itself after they recognised the value in him spending two months at the tournament working alongside England and KKR captain Eoin Morgan ahead of the T20 World Cup in India later this year.

KKR have released five players and retained 17 players ahead of the auction. KKR now have Rs 10.85 crore in their wallet for IPL 2021 Auction scheduled to take place on February 18 in Chennai.

Here is KKR’s list of retained and released player

KKR Team while playing a match

Retained players: Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Rinku Singh, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy, Ali Khan, Tim Seifert.

Released players: Tom Banton, Chris Green, Siddhesh Lad, Nikhil Naik, M Siddharth, Harry Gurney

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