The mega auction of IPL 2025 will be held this month i.e. on 24 and 25 November in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Many star players including Rishabh Pant will be watching in this mega auction. Recently, when all the teams announced their respective retention lists, Rishabh Pant’s name was not on the Delhi Capitals list. It became clear that Delhi had released Pant. Many people were surprised by this decision of Delhi Capitals. Delhi’s fans were also upset by this move and expressed their displeasure on social media. Now there has been a big revelation in this matter.
In fact, Star Sports shared a video ahead of the IPL mega auction in which cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar was seen talking about the possibility of wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant returning to Delhi Capitals. In this video, Gavaskar is saying that when a player has to be retained, there is a lot of discussion between the franchise and the player regarding the salary. We all saw that some players who were retained received more money than the number-one retention fee. So he feels that maybe there were some differences between Pant and Delhi, but I think DC would definitely prefer to have Rishabh Pant back in their team because they need a captain.
Rishabh Pant’s reply came shortly after Sunil Gavaskar’s video was posted on social media. Reacting to the video, Rishabh Pant wrote that he can definitely say that his retention is not about money.
Rishabh Pant was with Delhi Capitals since the first season of IPL i.e. 2016. Even after he was injured in a road accident in the year 2022, the Delhi team retained him with them. However, Delhi dropped Pant before IPL 2025. Ignoring its skipper Rishabh Pant, Delhi retained Akshar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs and Abhishek Porel.
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