Now is the wait of just 5 days and the 12th season of IPL is going to entertain us for almost 45 days. All the cricket and IPL fantasy cricket fans are ready with their strategies.

One of the popular IPL T20 fantasy teams, Kolkata Knight Riders will have their first match on March 24 against Sunrisers Hyderabad at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. KKR are only lurking behind Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians when it comes to winning the IPL title because they have lifted the trophy twice while CSK and MI both have won the title three times.

Last season, KKR quite remarkably qualified for the playoffs despite having a weak squad. But this year, they have an actually quite a decent squad and the IPL fantasy league fans will too have. So they are going to surely be looking to get hold of IPL trophy for the 3rd time.

Here, we take a peek at the best player in each department for KKR who are able to play a crucial role in winning the tournament.

Best Pacer -Lockie Ferguson
The exceptionally competent kiwi pacer Lockie Ferguson can be the best fast bowler for the team in IPL 2019. Ferguson can regularly bowl over 145 kph and comes with a good bouncer and a yorker that makes him an actually quite a lethal bowler in the shortest form of cricket. He has been in wonderful form lately in international cricket.

Prior to this, Ferguson has played for Rising Pune Supergiants in IPL T20 cricket game 2017 for which he played 4 matches and took 3 wickets.

With KKR lacking any big name in their fast bowling attack, Ferguson is anticipated to be their highly recommended overseas pacer for this season. KKR will have high expectations from the kiwi paceman in IPL 2019.

Best Spinner -Kuldeep Yadav
Kuldeep is among the very few chinaman bowlers in cricket world right now. His different attack makes it very hard for any batsman to play him and this is why he has been so outstanding lately.

The chinaman spinner is certainly going through his purple patch right now. He has been doing well constantly for the Indian team since his arrival in international cricket. KKR will be anticipating Kuldeep to keep his dream run in IPL 2019 too.

Until now, the 24-year-old has played 31 matches in IPL and has taken 35 wickets in an average of 24.51 and then an economy rate of 8.22 with 20/4 being his best IPL figures.

Best All-rounder – Andre Russell
The hard-hitting Windies all-rounder, Andre Russell is debatably one of the best T20 cricket games all-rounders right now. He has the ability to win matches single-handedly for his team with both ball and bat. The 30-year-old player has been an important part of the Kolkata-based team in the last few seasons.

Russell has turned 50 IPL appearances for KKR till date. He has smashed 890 runs at an average of 26.97 and a fantastic strike rate of 177.29 with 88 as his highest score. In bowling, he has taken 44 wickets with 20/4 being his best.

Andre Russell will surely be probably the most important players for KKR this season of IPL fantasy cricket. It will be interesting to see if he could meet the hopes of his fans and team.

Best Batsman – Dinesh Karthik
In 2018, Karthik was the captain of KKR and this call turned out to be quite beneficial for both KKR and Karthik as captaincy took his game to a completely new level and he led KKR to the playoffs of IPL. He performed persistently over the last season. Last season, he scored 498 runs from 16 matches at an amazing average of 49.80 and a strike rate of 147.77. It turned out one of the best IPL seasons for Dinesh Karthik. KKR will be ready for Karthik to repeat precisely the same this time too.

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