Names of 5 retained players of KKR came out, Shahrukh Khan showed confidence in these 5 legendary players

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|01-10-2024

KKR: The Indian Premier League will come to make a splash once again next year. The world's biggest league is going to be even more special in the next season. Actually, mega auction will be organized before IPL 2025. This auction will be held later this year.

During this period, bidding will be held on many famous cricketers. Before that, all the teams will be allowed to retain 5 players as per BCCI rules. Also, he will be able to include a player in his camp again through Right to Match. Today in this article we are going to predict who Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) can retain. Let us know the whole thing in detail.

KKR will retain these 5 players!

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Last season's champion team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) is going to be under pressure to defend the title. Let us tell you that during IPL 2024, under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, this team had captured the trophy for the third time. For this, a lot of credit was given to the then mentor Gautam Gambhir. He had transformed KKR under his guidance.

However, Gambhir will not be with this team in the next season. Dwayne Bravo has been appointed the new mentor of Kolkata. The five players that this team can retain in IPL 2025 will be explosive batsman Shreyas Iyer, explosive batsman Rinku Singh, all-rounder Andre Russell, Sunil Narine. Also, this team can again make any player of Phil Salt or Varun Chakraborty a part of its camp through Right to Match.

Shreyas Iyer will remain the captain of this team

In IPL 2025, the command of Kolkata Knight Riders is likely to be in the hands of Shreyas Iyer once again. Actually, recently there were reports on social media that this team is going to release the 29 year old cricketer.

Moreover, there were discussions going on that Mumbai Indians can trade its star cricketer Suryakumar Yadav and make him the captain of its team. However, these reports could never be confirmed. In such a situation, Shreyas can be seen playing the role of captain in the next season.

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