- KKR did not retain their last year’s winning captain Shreyas Iyer in the mega auction. In the same auction, the former champion team bought Venkatesh Iyer.
KKR: KKR did not retain their last year’s winning captain Shreyas Iyer in the mega auction. In the same auction, the former champion team bought Venkatesh Iyer. Kolkata included him by bidding 23 crores. After taking Iyer with them at such a high bid, it is being speculated that the team management is looking at him as a captain.
But now the news that has come out, according to that, the speculation about Iyer becoming the captain has come to an end, while it has been confirmed that an experienced player will be made the captain. Now who is this player, let us first know this
KKR will make this old player the captain
Source: ESPN Cricinfo
Let us tell you that Ajinkya Rahane can take over the command of KKR in IPL 2025. The Times of India has claimed this in one of its reports quoting a source. According to the source, it is almost certain that the command of Kolkata will remain on Rahane’s shoulders.
It is 90% certain that Rahane will become the captain
The source said on the condition of anonymity, ” Yes, at the moment it is 90% certain that Ajinkya will be the new captain of KKR. He was bought by KKR specifically as a captaincy option.
🚨 AJINKYA RAHANE EMERGE AS LEADING CONTENDER FOR KKR CAPTAIN 🚨
— Tanuj Singh (@ImTanujSingh) December 2, 2024
– A source said "Yes, at the moment it's 90% confirmed that Ajinkya Rahane will be the new KKR Captain for IPL 2025". (TOI). pic.twitter.com/oAdrHGERXL
Rahane has good experience of captaincy
It is known that Ajinkya Rahane’s performance has not been very good in the recent past. He scored only 242 runs in 13 matches without scoring a single half-century, so there was a possibility of him remaining unsold. But KKR bought Ajinkya Rahane at the normal price of 1.5 crores.
Now he can captain Kolkata in the upcoming season. It is worth noting that Rahane has a good experience of captaincy. Along with captaining Team India, he has also captained in domestic cricket. While captaining Mumbai in Ranji this year, he also led the team to the title.
This has been his performance in the entire IPL so far
If we talk about Ajinkya Rahane’s performance in IPL, he has played 185 matches so far. He has scored a total of 4,642 runs at an average of 30 and a strike rate of 123. He has also scored 2 centuries. Apart from this, his best score has been 105 runs not out.
