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MUMBAI/SINGAPORE, June 1 (Reuters) - KKR & Co Prashant Kumar, who has been with KKR in Mumbai since 2018, will move to Singapore and start his new role in July, one of the sources said. Kumar will work with Ashish Shastry, a partner who heads Southeast Asia and co-heads the firm's Asia Pacific Private Equity business. A spokesperson for KKR declined to comment. Kumar, an alumnus of The Wharton School and the Indian Institute of Technology, has invested in Indian companies including deodorant-maker Vini Cosmetics and drug-maker JB Chemicals. Kumar's move comes after KKR has bolstered its Indian leadership in recent years. It hired Gaurav Trehan from fellow buyout firm TPG Inc Last month, KKR also hired Trehan's former colleague Akshay Tanna from TPG to be a partner in its Indian private equity team, said a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The move also comes as KKR strengthens its presence in India and Southeast Asia. It raised $15 billion for its fourth Asia-Pacific focused private equity fund in 2021, one of the region's largest for the asset class. KKR has been investing in Southeast Asia since 2005, and opened its Singapore office in 2012. Its investments in the region include private equity, real estate, credit and infrastructure. In March, KKR-backed telecom tower platform Frontier Tower Associations bought more than a 100 telecom towers in the Philippines from broadband group PLDT for $220 million. Reuters reported Thomson Reuters Sriram leads Reuters' dea...

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) went into the IPL 2023 auction with 14 players and the lowest purse to fill in the rest of the slots. KKR had a remaining purse of Rs. 7.05 crores. KKR had a total of 5 slots to be filled, including eight Indians and three overseas players. Before going into the auction, the franchise released several star players including the likes of Pat Cummins and Aaron Finch. Players retained by Kolkata Knight Riders ahead of IPL 2023 auction Retained Players: Shreyas Iyer, Nitish Rana, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh, Shardul Thakur (T), Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Lockie Ferguson (T), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (T), Sunil Narine, Tim Southee. Players bought by Kolkata Knight Riders at • N. Jagadeesan (India) - INR 90 lakhs • Vaibhav Arora (India) - INR 60 lakhs • Suyash Sharma (India) - INR 20 lakhs • David Wiese (Namibia) - INR 1 crore • Shakib Al Hasan (Namibia) - INR 1.5 crore • Mandeep Singh (Namibia) - INR 50 lakhs • Kulwant Khejroliya (Namibia) - INR 20 lakhs • Litton Das (Namibia) - INR 50 lakhs KKR sign Shardul Thakur from Delhi Capitals A few days before the IPL 2023 trading window closed, the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) made a massive trade as they have signed fast bowling all-rounder Shardul Thakur from Delhi Capitals (DC). The 31-year-old, who is currently a part of Team India's ODI squad for the series against New Zealand, was bought by DC at the 2022 IPL mega auction for a whopping Rs 10.75 crores. The Kolk...

History Under Sourav Ganguly and then Brendon McCullum, KKR's first three years were forgettable. They had the likes of Ricky Ponting, Chris Gayle and (briefly) Shoaib Akhtar in their ranks, alongside promising young Indians like Ishant Sharma, but the highest they finished in the first three seasons was sixth. In 2011, KKR made their first playoffs under Gautam Gambhir. Yusuf Pathan became a key member of the side, along with Jacques Kallis. In 2012, KKR won their first title, thanks in part to new signings Sunil Narine and Robin Uthappa. They won the title in 2014 again - the first season with Andre Russell in their ranks. The next three years were full of promise but failed to earn KKR another title, and Gambhir was not retained ahead of the 2018 auction. The lows The dream of a fairy tale under Ganguly did not come true, and there was conflict between him and coach John Buchanan, whose multiple-captains strategy was criticised, especially after the team's fortunes sank further. The omission of Ganguly ahead of 2011 threatened to ruin Kolkata's love for KKR, and the ruckus over the Fake IPL player (an anonymous blogger who appeared to have inside information) in the early years made them the butt of jokes as well. 2008 - sixth McCullum's 158 not out in the tournament opener made it seem like KKR were the team to beat in the new league, but four straight losses put that start to waste and, despite two Player-of-the-Match performances from Ganguly and a demolition of Delh...