The Two times IPL winners in 2012 and 2014 , begin this IPL 2023 session with the same spirit as they performed last year. Here is the list of Players of the Kolkata Knight Riders squad.
| Player | Role | Nation |
| Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk) | WK-Batsman | Afghanistan |
| N. Jagadeesan (wk) | WK-Batsman | India |
| Litton Das (wk) | WK-Batsman | Bangladesh |
| Shreyas Iyer | Batsman | India |
| Nitish Rana | Batsman | India |
| Rinku Singh | Batsman | India |
| Mandeep Singh | Batsman | India |
| Andre Russell | All-rounder | West Indies |
| Venkatesh Iyer | All-rounder | India |
| Sunil Narine | All-rounder | West Indies |
| Anukul Roy | All-rounder | India |
| David Wiese | All-rounder | Namibia |
| Shakib Al Hasan | All-rounder | Bangladesh |
| Varun Chakravarty | Bowler | India |
| Tim Southee | Bowler | New Zealand |
| Umesh Yadav | Bowler | India |
| Shradul Thakur | Bowler | India |
| Lockie Ferguson | Bowler | India |
| Harshit Rana | Bowler | India |
| Vaibhav Rana | Bowler | India |
| Suyash Sharma | Bowler | India |
| Kulwant Khejroliya | Bowler | India |