IPL 2023: The Indian Premier League has started and Kolkata Knight Riders have faced defeat against Punjab Kings in their very first match. At the same time, KKR (KKR Full Squad 2023) has got a big blow before their second match. Because the KKR team’s star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is not playing in IPL this time.

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Shakib Al Hasan will not be seen playing this time

Actually, the KKR team will not be able to get the facility of Bangladesh star player Shakib Al Hasan this time. Shakib is not playing this time in IPL 2023 for the only Test match against Ireland. This means that this player, who is running in excellent form, will not be seen in IPL 2023. In such a situation, KKR may have to face many big problems during the matches.

If Al Hasan does not play, Kolkata can take another foreign cricketer

Sources said that since Shakib will not be in the team for most of the tournament. That’s why Kolkata wants to replace Shakib with some other foreign cricketer. He has been informed about that request from Kolkata. If he doesn’t play, they can take another foreign cricketer.

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Shakib-Liton has been selected for the Test team

The only test match between Bangladesh and Ireland is to start from 4th April i.e. from today and Shakib will remain in Bangladesh but Liton Das can be seen playing IPL after this test match. But earlier it was believed that Shakib and Liton Das would not be included in the Test squad and would be available for KKR from the first match itself.

IPL 2023: Full Squad of Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata Knight Riders: Nitish Rana (Captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, Narayan Jagadeesan, Vaibhav Arora, Suyash Sharma, David Wise, Kulwant Khejroliya, Mandeep Singh, Liton Das.