Many surprising news are coming out every day regarding IPL 2025. Now a big news has come out from the camp of kolkata Knight Riders. Actually, kolkata Knight Riders, who won the title in the last season i.e. IPL 2024, have released their captain shreyas iyer for IPL 2025. In such a situation, the team is looking for a new captain. A big update has come out regarding the new captain of KKR. Such a name has come up regarding the captain of KKR, which will be difficult to believe.
Will Rinku Singh be the next captain of kolkata Knight Riders?
According to the report, Rinku Singh, who won the lost match for KKR by hitting five sixes in the last five balls, will be the captain of kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2025. If media reports are to be believed, Rinku Singh will lead the team in place of shreyas iyer in IPL 2025. However, the franchise has not yet officially announced it.
KKR has retained these 6 players
For IPL 2025, KKR has retained Andre Russell, sunil Narine, varun Chakraborty, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh and Harshit Rana. KKR has retained 4 capped players and 2 uncapped players. Rinku Singh, who is worth Rs 55 lakh, has been retained by kolkata for Rs 13 crore for the upcoming season. varun Chakraborty has been retained for Rs 12 crore, sunil Narine for Rs 12 crore, Andre Russell for Rs 12 crore, Harshit Rana for Rs 4 crore and Ramandin Singh for Rs 4 crore.
kolkata Knight Riders have spent about Rs 57 crore out of Rs 120 crore to retain 6 players. Now KKR will have Rs 63 crore in the mega auction of IPL 2025. Earlier it was being said that kolkata Knight Riders wanted to make suryakumar yadav the captain, but surya will now stay in Mumbai. In such a situation, KKR was looking for a new captain. Now the news is that KKR has approved the name of Rinku Singh as the captain. However, it has not been officially announced yet.
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