{"id":3504,"date":"2026-03-25T00:24:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/03\/25\/gods-plan-kolkata-knight-riders-name-rinku-singh-as-vice-captain-ahead-of-ipl-2026-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:24:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:24:57","slug":"gods-plan-kolkata-knight-riders-name-rinku-singh-as-vice-captain-ahead-of-ipl-2026-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=3504","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;God&#8217;s plan&#8217;: Kolkata Knight Riders name Rinku Singh as vice-captain ahead of IPL 2026 | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\">\n<div class=\"_s30J clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-129779128,imgsize-42196,width-400,resizemode-4\/ll-29.jpg\" alt=\"'God's plan': Kolkata Knight Riders name Rinku Singh as vice-captain ahead of IPL 2026\" title=\"Rinku Singh\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Three-time champion Kolkata Knight Riders on Tuesday announced <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rinku-singh\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Rinku Singh<\/a> as vice captain of the franchise ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">IPL<\/a> 2026.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>&#8220;God\u2019s plan has a new chapter,&#8221; KKR posted on X.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Ajinkya Rahane will lead the franchise in the upcoming season.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Earlier, KKR also roped in left-arm pacer Saurabh Dubey as a replacement for an injured Akash Deep ahead of the IPL season.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"lOvcW vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"k7lcu\">\n<div class=\"efT4r\">\n<p><i class=\"XVSwc\"\/> <span>Watch<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <!-- -->RCB\u2019s big changes ahead of IPL: New rules, tribute &amp; squad update<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>Dubey joins a KKR unit consisting of Pathirana, Blessing Muzarabani, Vaibhav Arora, Kartik Tyagi and Umran Malik as frontline pacers and all-rounder Cameron Green as an extra pace bowling option. In the absence of Mustafizur Rahman, released from the squad last year on instructions of BCCI, and India pacer Harshit Rana, the KKR pace attack looks heavily depleted ahead of their March 29 campaign opener.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>KKR will start their campaign against five-time champions Mumbai Indians (MI) on March 29 in Mumbai.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/top-stories\/gods-plan-kolkata-knight-riders-name-rinku-singh-as-vice-captain-ahead-of-ipl-2026\/articleshow\/129779122.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Three-time champion Kolkata Knight Riders on Tuesday announced Rinku Singh as vice captain of the franchise ahead of IPL 2026.&#8220;God\u2019s plan has a new chapter,&#8221; KKR posted on X.Ajinkya Rahane will lead the franchise in the upcoming season.Earlier, KKR also roped in left-arm pacer Saurabh Dubey as a replacement for an injured Akash&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}