KKR: IPL 2024 champion Kolkata Knight Riders team won the third title of its IPL history by defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad in the final match.

After winning the IPL 2024 season, now team owner Shahrukh Khan is facing a dilemma that he can retain only 5 players from his champion team squad. Due to which the reports are that before the IPL 2025 auction, Shahrukh Khan is releasing 18 players along with the team's star players Mitchell Starc and Iyer and retaining these veteran players as only 5 players. Can do.

Iyer- KKR will retain Starc

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) team franchise can release Mitchell Starc and Venkatesh Iyer in the team squad before the IPL 2025 auction. Both these star players played an important role in helping Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) win the final match of IPL 2024, but despite that, team owner Shah Rukh Khan can release both these star players. .

KKR will retain these 5 players

Kolkata Knight Riders franchise may decide to retain Sunil Narine, captain Shreyas Iyer, all-rounder Andre Russell, Rinku Singh and Harshit Rana present in the team squad before the IPL 2025 auction. The Kolkata Knight Riders franchise would like to form the team squad around these players for the next IPL season.

Shahrukh Khan can include Suryakumar Yadav in KKR

The Indian team is performing amazingly under the captaincy of the current T20 format captain of Team India, Suryakumar Yadav. Suryakumar Yadav is playing with Mumbai Indians in IPL cricket, but now some reports in the media are claiming that Shahrukh Khan can talk to Suryakumar Yadav to include him in his team. After which, there is a high possibility that Suryakumar Yadav will also be seen captaining the team for Kolkata Knight Riders from the next IPL season.

KKR can potentially release these 18 players

Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Suyyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Gus Atkinson, Saqib Hussain, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Sherfane Rutherford, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Srikar Bharat and Philip Salt