IPL 2021: Gurkeerat Singh Mann joins Kolkata Knight Riders as Rinku Singh's replacement

Kolkata Knight Riders have signed up Gurkeerat Singh Mann as a replacement for batsman Rinku Singh, who will be unavailable for the entire season due to a knee injury. Rinku, who made his IPL debut in 2017 has played a total of 11 IPL games.

His replacement, Gurkeerat, last played for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2020 before being released ahead of the VIVO IPL 2021 auction. Kolkata Knight Riders have acquired Gurkeerat at his base price of INR 50 lakhs.

The VIVO IPL 2021 will be Gurkeerat’s eighth IPL season. Mann played a total of 8 IPL matches so far, scoring 71 runs. It will be interesting to see how KKR will use his services in the Indian Premier League 2021 season.

Kolkata Knight Riders will play their first game of the season against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Chennai on April 11th. Eoin Morgan will lead the Knights this year right from the start of the season.

KKR full squad for IPL 2021:

Eoin Morgan (c), Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy, Tim Seifert, Shakib Al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson, Harbhajan Singh, Ben Cutting, Venkatesh Iyer, Pawan Negi, Vaibhav Arora and Karun Nair.

Here is KKR’s schedule for IPL 2021: