IPL 2025 Sunrisers Hyderabad: Big news is coming out before the next season of IPL. Although the teams still have about 14 days left for retention, the list of players to be retained has already started coming out. Although it has not been confirmed yet, but the possibilities have surprised everyone. It has been learned that Kavya Maran’s team Sunrisers Hyderabad i.e. SRH is going to retain one of its players by paying a huge amount. Although teams can make their first retention for Rs 18 crore, but the news is that SRH team is preparing to pay even more amount to Heinrich Klaasen.
Hyderabad team can retain Heinrich Klaasen for Rs 23 crores
Sunrisers Hyderabad team can spend up to Rs 23 crore before IPL 2025 for one of its biggest players, Heinrich Klaasen. That means, if this happens, he will become the second most expensive player in IPL history. He seems ready to break the record of his own captain Pat Cummins in terms of money. This has been revealed in a report by Cricinfo. The report says that Heinrich Klaasen is going to be the first retention for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Apart from this, the team can retain Australian all-rounder Pat Cummins for Rs 18 crore. He is also the captain of the team. Not only this, Abhishek Sharma, who is one of the star players of Team India, can get Rs 14 crore as third retention.
SRH team can also retain Travis Head and Nitish Kumar Reddy
After these three top retentions, Sunrisers Hyderabad team will also spend a huge amount to keep Travis Head and Nitish Kumar Reddy with them. The report says that the Sunrisers team is also going to include Travis Head and Nitish Kumar Reddy in the retention list. Although BCCI has already fixed October 31 as the last date for releasing retention, the list of Sunrisers Hyderabad seems to be ready. Even though the team has not said anything on this yet, this list seems to be confirmed.
Heinrich Klaasen, Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head gave amazing performances.
The player on whom the SRH team is going to spend the most i.e. Rs 23 crore, had batted amazingly in the IPL 2024 season. Klaasen scored 479 runs in 15 innings at a strike rate of 171.07 in IPL 2024. Only Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma had a higher strike rate than him. Abhishek had scored 484 runs in 16 innings at a strike rate of 204.21. Under the captaincy of Pat Cummins, the team had reached the finals in the last IPL, but had to face defeat there. However, Pat had impressed a lot with his captaincy. Therefore, he can be seen handling the responsibility of captaincy this time too.
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