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IPL 2025, Gujarat Titans: Gujarat Titans have retained a total of five players for the upcoming IPL 2025. Gujarat has spent Rs 51 crore on these 5 players including Shubhman Gill and Rashid Khan. So now the remaining team will have to spend within Rs 61 crore for the mega auction. Now before the mega auction, a big update has come regarding Gujarat head coach Ashish Nehra.
Mohammed Shami and Umran Malik
According to a report, Ashish Nehra was seen talking to fast bowlers Umran Malik and Mohammed Shami. Shami has not played in IPL since 2023. Whereas Umran Malik could also play only one match in IPL 2024. Because due to injury he had to miss the rest of the season. Here let us tell you that there is not a single fast bowler in the retention list of Gujarat. Therefore the team is in great need of a fast bowler.
IPL career of players
If we look at Mohammed Shami’s IPL career, he has taken 127 wickets in 110 matches so far. Whereas Umran Malik has taken 27 wickets in 26 IPL matches so far. He gained immense popularity due to his bowling speed of more than 150 kmph. Talking about the last season, Gujarat team had many famous and talented fast bowlers including Mohit Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Joshua Little and Kartik Tyagi. But Gujarat did not retain any of them for the next season.
10 teams retained a total of 46 players
A total of 46 players have been retained by all 10 teams ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction. If only fast bowlers and fast bowling all-rounders are looked at together, 12 out of 46 such players have been retained. In which names ranging from Jasprit Bumrah and Mayank Yadav to Hardik Pandya and Nitish Reddy are included. Whom the team can use as an option in fast bowling.