{"id":493936,"date":"2026-03-25T05:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493936\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:56:09","slug":"ipl-2026-kkr-retire-no-12-jersey-in-tribute-to-andre-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493936\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 &#8211; KKR retire No 12 jersey in tribute to Andre Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/kolkata-knight-riders-335971\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)<\/a> have retired the No. 12 jersey to honour their former allrounder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/andre-russell-276298\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Russell<\/a>. Russell represented KKR in all seasons from 2014 to 2025, except 2017. Overall, 133 of his 140 IPL games came <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.espncricinfo.com\/ci\/engine\/player\/276298.html?class=6;filter=advanced;orderby=default;team=4341;template=results;trophy=117;type=allround\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for KKR<\/a>, where he was a permanent fixture for 11 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it has affected my mindset,&#8221; Russell said about getting into coaching. &#8220;It is more about coming and giving back to all the guys I have played with and against. I just feel very good about coming back and giving back to the guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russell was twice part of KKR&#8217;s title-winning sides &#8211; in 2014 and 2024. But while he played just two games in 2014, his all-round contributions across 15 matches in 2024 helped KKR to the trophy. That season, Russell scored 222 runs at a strike rate of 185 in nine innings, and bagged 19 wickets at an average of 15.52.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the IPL, Russell also played for KKR in the Champions League T20 in 2014-15, and was part of the side that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/champions-league-twenty20-2014-15-763543\/chennai-super-kings-vs-kolkata-knight-riders-final-763633\/full-scorecard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made it to the final<\/a> that season.<\/p>\n<p>Russell also represents KKR&#8217;s sister franchises Abu Dhabi Knight Riders at the ILT20 and Trinbago Knight Riders in the CPL. He has played four seasons each for both teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have retired the No. 12 jersey to honour their former allrounder Andre Russell. Russell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[132648,1721,36623,49,50,132647,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-493936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-package","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}