The IPL 2025 Mega Auction is taking place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In which India’s star wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant has become the most expensive player. The team of Lucknow Super Giants bought him for 27 crore rupees. At the same time, Kolkata Knight Riders have spent lavishly on young batsman Venkatesh Iyer. Venkatesh has become rich in auctions. He has so much money, which no one expected. The KKR team included him in the team by paying a whopping sum of Rs 23.75 crores. While its original price was only 2 crore rupees.
Venkatesh Iyer was the beneficiary
Earlier, Venkatesh Iyer’s salary in Kolkata Knight Riders was only 8 crore rupees. But this time they have benefited a lot. KKR has neither retained nor bought Shreyas Iyer. In such a situation, Venkatesh Iyer is the biggest contender to become the captain. He has won many matches for KKR with his brilliant batting. The special thing is that he can play from opening to middle order.
3rd player to score an IPL century for KKR
Venkatesh Iyer has so far scored a total of 1326 runs in 51 IPL matches, with one century and 11 fifties. He is only the third Indian player to score a century for KKR in IPL. Apart from this, he has also taken three wickets in bowling. His performance improved a lot in IPL 2021. Then he single-handedly led the team to the finals. He scored a total of 370 runs that season.
Salary is more than Virat Kohli
Venkatesh Iyer has now got so much money in the auction that RCB didn’t even retain Virat Kohli. RCB retained Kohli for a total of Rs 21 crore. Iyer’s salary is Rs 2.75 crore more than him. While Iyer has played only four seasons of IPL. On the other hand, Kohli has been playing in the IPL since 2008.
KKR retained 6 players
In IPL retention, KKR team retained 6 players and did not release a single RTM option. KKR retained Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakraborty, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh.
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