KKR on Sunday retained Caribbean Russell and Narine along with Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Jason Roy, Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Sunil Narine, Suyash Sharma, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, and Venkatesh Iyer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Russell joined KKR in 2014, while Narine joined in 2012 and both of them have been mainstays in the team since then.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cThey both have been phenomenal cricketers for KKR and are really a part of their. I feel that Gambhir has been quite pivotal in the retention of Russell and Narine. Gambhir understands them, he's played with them, he's captain them and he'll be able to get the best out of them,\u201d said Moody to ESPNcricinfo.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
However, Moody also revealed their hesitation regarding Russell\u2019s physical condition instead of his performance. Russell scored 227 runs in 14 matches while picking seven wickets for KKR in IPL 2023.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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