SRH will retain these three players including Heinrich Klaasen! Pat Cummins is not the team's first choice

SRH Retention IPL 2025: Before the mega auction for IPL 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad have decided to spend the most money for three players. According to the news of 'ESPN Cricinfo', Heinrich Klaasen is the first choice of Hyderabad team. SRH will spend the biggest amount to retain Clason. Along with this, the team also wants to retain Pat Cummins and Abhishek Sharma. Let us tell you that the last date for submitting the list of retained players to BCCI is 31st October. Last season, Hyderabad's performance was amazing and they had reached the finals.

Classen Hyderabad's first choice

Heinrich Klaasen's performance while playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2024 was strong. Seeing Clason's ability, Hyderabad has decided to retain him. According to the report of ESPN Cricinfo, Clausen is SRH's first choice and they are ready to spend Rs 23 crore for him. Hyderabad team wants to retain Pat Cummins as the second player.

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As our most of fans wish @SunRisers ready to retain 5 Capped players ahead of mega auction 🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋

1st classes 23c
2.Cummins 18c
3.Abhishek 14c
4.Head 10-12c
5.Nitish 10-8c

Total 75c and 45c purse left to build a squad #SRH #OrangeArmy @srinathbpic.twitter.com/iWMa30xt1q

— Sagar Nani (@SagarNaniJSPK) October 16, 2024

SRH is planning to retain Cummins for Rs 18 crore. At the same time, Hyderabad will play its third bet on Abhishek Sharma, who created a lot of havoc with the bat last season and the team has decided to retain him for Rs 14 crores.

Head-Nitish will also be retained

Sunrisers Hyderabad team also wants to retain Australian openers Travis Head and Nitish Reddy. Head's performance last season was tremendous. The Kangaroo opener scored 567 runs in 15 matches played in IPL 2024 at a strike rate of 191.55. Head had wreaked havoc with the bat and even scored a century. At the same time, Head had also scored 5 fifties.

On the other hand, the performance of Nitish Reddy, who recently debuted for Team India, was also strong for Hyderabad. Not only this, but in the match played against Bangladesh, Nitish had played an explosive inning of 74 runs in just 34 balls. On behalf of SRH, Nitish scored 303 runs at a strike rate of 142 in the 17th season of the Indian Premier League, while also taking three wickets in his bag.

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