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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has expressed excitement astir getting the accidental to enactment intimately with prima Australian all-rounder Cameron Green during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 season. The three-time champions KKR volition kickstart their IPL 2026 run against five-time champions Mumbai Indians (MI) successful a clash of heavyweights astatine Mumbai connected March 29.
Ahead of the tournament, the main talking points are the role, batting presumption and expectations from the franchise's big-ticket signing Green, connected whom the squad splurged ₹25.20 crores past twelvemonth successful the action.
During the pre-match property conference, Watson said joining KKR has been precise exciting, particularly due to the fact that of the accidental to enactment intimately with Green. Although they've spoken respective times implicit the years, being capable to enactment him regular and assistance him execute his goals is thing he's truly looking guardant to.
"There are immoderate breathtaking things astir maine coming to KKR. One of the biggest is moving with Cameron Green. I've had respective conversations with him implicit the years, but being capable to assistance him connected his travel and enactment his maturation is thing I'm truly excited about," Watson said.
Watson added, "We've seen him erstwhile helium got picked up to play for the Mumbai Indians, for a beauteous decent amount, past helium performed brilliantly successful the 2023 edition. And that is his mindset erstwhile it comes to the IPL: he's got thing to suffer successful the end. So I'm not expecting thing different. If you've seen the mode he's trained implicit the past mates of weeks arsenic well. I don't deliberation successful immoderate mode that his show volition beryllium suffocated by the terms tag. Because he's precise escaped and excited astir being capable to beryllium escaped successful the caller relation arsenic well.”
Kolkata Knight Riders squad for IPL 2026: Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Navdeep Saini, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Cameron Green, Finn Allen, Matheesha Pathirana, Tejasvi Singh, Kartik Tyagi, Prashant Solanki, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert, Sarthak Ranjan, Daksh Kamra, Rachin Ravindra, Akash Deep, Blessing Muzarabani.
