{"id":146381,"date":"2026-03-24T12:09:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=146381"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:39:25","slug":"ipl-2026-kkr-retires-jersey-no-12-in-tribute-to-andre-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=146381","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: KKR retires jersey No. 12 in tribute to Andre Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70780958\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">Three-time Indian Premier League champion Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Tuesday announced that it will retire jersey No. 12 in tribute to Caribbean all-rounder Andre Russell.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was announced at the Knights Unplugged 3.0 event, where Rinku Singh was also named the side\u2019s vice-captain.<\/p>\n<p>Russell had called time on his IPL playing career ahead of this season after KKR released him following a poor 2025 season. He was then announced as the side\u2019s \u2018power coach\u2019 for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old made 133 appearances for KKR and was part of the title-winning campaigns in 2014 and 2024. Russell had been retained before the mega auction in 2025 for Rs. 12 crore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Mar 24, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-news\/ipl-2026-kkr-jersey-no-12-retired-andre-russell-tribute-tribute-power-coach\/article70780958.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time Indian Premier League champion Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Tuesday announced that it will retire jersey No. 12 in tribute to Caribbean all-rounder Andre Russell. The decision was announced at the Knights Unplugged 3.0 event, where Rinku Singh was also named the side\u2019s vice-captain. Russell had called time on his IPL playing career ahead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WhatsApp20Image202026-03-2420at209.19.5020PM.jpeg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-C4Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}