As all the franchises are set to announce their retained players list ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction, an interesting development from SRH has brought attention among cricket fans where star players Travis Head and Nitish Kumar Reddy as their final retention players.
According to reports, Heat is likely to be retained for INR 14 crore while Reddy is set to be retained for INR 6 crore.
With these signings, SRH will complete their quota of five capped retained players before the auction, securing the core group that led them to the IPL 2024 final, and will lose the IPL 2024 final, and lose INR 75 crore from their purse of INR 120 crore.
Earlier reports were set to retain Heinrich Klaasen, Pat Cummins and Abhishek Sharma and hence they can use a right-to-match card to buy back only one of their uncapped players at the auction.
According to new IPL 2025 retention rules, each team can retain six players from the existing squad, either via retention or by using the Right to Match (RTM) option.
While the IPL has set minimum deductions from the auction purse for every player retention, the first slot will be INR 18 crore, the second INR 14 crore, the third INR 11 crore, the fourth INR 18 crore, the fifth INR 14 crore and the uncapped Rs 4 crore.
Cummins will continue to captain SRH along with the coaching staff led by Daniel Vettori, who led them to the playoffs for the first time since 2020.
If Klaasen’s price tag which is INR 5 crore more than the IPL’s slab of INR 18 crore for the first retained player, was a surprise.
Head had a stunning season in the IPL 2024 season with SRH, smashing 567 runs at a strike rate of 191.55 at the top of the order. In 2024, he also becomes the second T20 batter to score 1000 plus runs at a strike rate of more than 175 and average of more than 40 in a year.
Though this year’s auction was planned to be hosted outside India, fans can still enjoy the IPL 2025 auction live streaming from their home.
With BCCI announcing October 31 as the deadline for franchises to announce their retained players list, it will be interesting which players will be coming into the auction pool.
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