This player, not Pat Cummins, will be SRH's most expensive player, the team will retain him for Rs 23 crore!

IPL 2025: Before the mega auction of Indian Premier League 2025, all the teams are busy in preparations for retention. All teams have to release the list of their retained players by 31st October. Meanwhile, it is being claimed that Sunrisers Hyderabad is thinking of retaining not its captain Pat Cummins but its most explosive batsman Heinrich Klaasen for Rs 23 crore, who performed consistently well for the team last season.

Heinrich Klaasen had given a strong performance

Let us tell you that Heinrich Klaasen made his IPL debut in the year 2018, but he won everyone's hearts with his performance last season. Playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2024, Klaasen scored 479 runs at a strike rate of 171.08 and an average of 39.92. During this period, he scored 4 half-centuries. Klaasen hit 19 fours and 38 sixes in the season.

Heinrich Klaasen will be rich

Sunrisers Hyderabad team was paying Rs 5.25 crore as annual salary to Heinrich Klaasen in IPL 2024. But, if reports are to be believed, Kavya Maran can retain Heinrich Klaasen for Rs 23 crore, a 338% increase, before the mega auction of IPL 2025. This will be no less than a jackpot for Klassen.

SRH can retain these players

Every team is thinking about the retention of IPL 2025 mega auction. Quoting reports, news is coming out that Sunrisers Hyderabad team will retain Heinrich Klaasen for Rs 23 crore as first retention. At the same time, captain Pat Cummins can be retained for Rs 18 crores and Abhishek Sharma for Rs 14 crores. Apart from these, names of Travis Head and Nitish Reddy can also be in the retention list. However, if the team does this, its purse value will reduce significantly even before the auction. As a result, he may again find it difficult to prepare the rest of the team in the mega auction.

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