- KKR: A big information has come out about Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). According to the information, Shahrukh Khan’s owned team KKR can keep 3 players with them. Let’s find out
Source: PTI
KKR: Before the mega auction of IPL 2025, BCCI had shared the retention rules, according to which all 10 IPL teams have to share the information about the retention of their players by October 31. In this episode, now a big information has come out about last year’s IPL champion Kolkata Knight Riders. According to the information, KKR, the team owned by Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan, can keep 3 players with them.
KKR will retain these three players
KKR can retain 3 players in the mega auction of IPL 2025. According to the information received from news agency PTI Kush Sarkar, the winning team of IPL 2024 can retain its captain Shreyas Iyer, Sunil Narine and Andre Russell. Let us tell you that Sunil Narine and Andre Russell have been with the Kolkata team for a long time. Narine has been with this team since 2012. Russell has also been playing for the team since 2016.
KKR's Top 3 Likely Retention for IPL 2025:- (Kushan Sarkar from PTI)
— Tanuj Singh (@ImTanujSingh) October 18, 2024
1. Shreyas Iyer.
2. Andre Russell.
3. Sunil Narine. pic.twitter.com/8vkitsPDIx
Which player will be retained for how much?
If we talk about Shreyas Iyer, he has been playing for KKR since 2022. The team won the title last season under his captaincy, so the team owned by Shahrukh Khan retains him at all costs. Apart from this, which player among these three will be the first retention of Kolkata. Also, who will be the second and third, it will also be interesting. This is because the governing council of the league has allowed retention of 5 players. But the price of retaining these players is very high.
Many players including Rinku Nitish released
According to IPL governing body, the first retention of 5 players is Rs 18, second Rs 14, third Rs 11, fourth Rs 18 and fifth Rs 14 crore. In such a situation, it will be difficult for any team to retain five players. Because the total purse value is Rs 120 crore and if all 5 are retained, then Rs 75 crore will be deducted from the team’s purse.
In such a situation, it will be difficult to retain five players to make a squad of 24 players. Because of this, Kolkata can retain three players. These include the names of Iyer, Narine and Russell. That means Kolkata will not retain many star players including Rinku Singh, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer and Varun Chakraborty.