Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) wicketkeeper Rahmanullah Gurbaz gifted his batting gloves to a fan in a viral gesture. Ahead of KKR’s opening recreation of the brand new Indian Premier League (IPL) season, Gurbaz interacted with a some followers on the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. He clicked photos with the followers and likewise gifted a younger man his batting gloves. In a viral video, the fan had requested Gurbaz for his batting gloves and the Afghan wicketkeeper-batter made his day by accepting his request.

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Gurbaz will look to play a key position for KKR on the prime of the order. He was retained by the franchise forward of the IPL 2024 gamers auctions.

He had performed 11 video games final season, scoring 227 runs at a mean of 20.64. He scored simply two half-centuries.

Meanwhile, KKR completed seventh final season beneath the management of Nitish Rana, who had changed the injured Shreyas Iyer on the helm.

While Iyer will resume his captaincy duties this season, there have been rumours that the batter would possibly miss the primary few video games on account of a again problem.

During the gamers public sale, KKR broke the financial institution for Australia pacer Mitchell Starc, making him the most costly purchase within the historical past of the event.

Starc was purchased by KKR for Rs 24.75 following a bidding warfare with Gujarat Titans. Despite spending greater than half of their purse quantity on Starc, KKR completed the public sale with 9 extra gamers within the bag.

KKR face SunRisers Hyderabad of their opening match on Saturday, March 23 on the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

KKR IPL 2024 Squad:

Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Jason Roy, 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, Gus Atkinson, Sakib Hussain.