IPL 2019 Auction: Kolkata Knight Riders players list, bids and buys by KKR in 2019 IPL Player Auction

IPL 2019 Auction: The 2019 IPL Player Auction will take place on December 18 with 351 players going under the hammer. However, there are only 70 remaining slots in the eight IPL franchises. 228 Indians and 123 international players are included in the short list for IPL auction this year. These names were decided on the basis of the lists submitted by the eight IPL franchises. For IPL 2019 auction, the salary cap has been raised from Rs 80 to Rs 82 crores for the eight teams. The auction hammer will be yielded not by the known face of Richard Madley but by Hugh Edmeades for the 12th season of IPL.

Here's where Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) stood before the IPL 2019 Auction

Retained: Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Chris Lynn, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shubman Gill, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Shivam Mavi, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Kamlesh Nagarkoti

Released: Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson, Tom Curran, Cameron Delport, Ishank Jaggi, Vinay Kumar, Apoorv Wankhade, Javon Searles

Salary cap available: Rs 15.20 crore

Available slots: 12 (Indian 7, Overseas 5)