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Many shocking 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, which won the title in the last season i.e. IPL 2024, has released its 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. A name has emerged regarding the captain of KKR, which will be difficult to believe.
Rinku Singh will be the next captain of Kolkata Knight Riders?
According to the report, Rinku Singh, who won the match for KKR by hitting 5 sixes in the last 5 balls, will be the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2025. If media reports are to be believed, Rinku Singh will take charge of the team in place of Shreyas Iyer in IPL 2025. However, the franchise has not made an official announcement yet.
KKR retained these 6 players
For IPL 2025, KKR has retained Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh and Harshit Rana. KKR has retained 4 capped and 2 uncapped players. Rinku Singh, Price Rs. 55 lakh, Kolkata offered him Rs. Rs 13 crore has been retained. 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 has also been retained for Rs 4 crore.
KKR was looking for a new captain
Kolkata Knight Riders have spent 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 wants to make Suryakumar Yadav the captain, but Surya will now remain 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 captain. However, it has not been officially announced yet.