IPL 2025: Who is Kavya Maran's choice?
In the IPL series, the Sunrisers hyderabad team had a special army of fans. This is because of Australian action player David Warner who gave his all for the hyderabad team. His subsequent ouster from the team is a separate story. Such a gentleman like Williamson was the captain of the team. But after hyderabad won the title in 2016, the team was unable to win the title. In this context, the hyderabad team changed its strategy and invested in many foreign players. As a result of this, the Australian captain came to the hyderabad team with a bid of 20 crores and 50 lakh rupees.
After that, the hyderabad team revived and made it to the finals last season. While hyderabad is in the mood to win the title, the team is in danger of losing again in the mega auction. In this context, hyderabad is more serious about building players than other teams. After working hard to build a team and reach the finals, what owner would be happy if the team fell apart again? Kavya Maran says that somehow the best six players have to be selected. In this, Kavya Maran has planned a new project. Accordingly, she is going to pay more than the sanctioned amount so that no foreign players are left out. Accordingly, she is going to retain Heinrich Klaasin from south africa as the first player.
In the last 2024 season, Klassen played 16 matches and scored 479 runs. In this, his strike rate was 171. Similarly, in 2023, he played 12 matches and accumulated 448 runs. In this, his strike rate is 177. Kavya Maran has decided to keep Klaasan as the first player by paying 23 crores more than the allowed amount so as not to let him go to another team. Similarly, it is doubtful that Pat Cummins will continue to play in back-to-back seasons in the IPL. Hence Sunrisers team is going to retain him as the second player. However, the second player should be paid only Rs 14 crore. But Kavya Maran has decided to pay Cummins 18 crore rupees.Similarly, Kavya Maran has chosen abhishek Sharma as the third player. abhishek Sharma played 16 matches last season and scored a total of 484 runs. This includes three half-centuries. His strike rate is a menacing 204. Thus, Kavya Maran is keen to choose him as the third player by paying 14 crore rupees. But according to the rules, the third player should be paid only Rs 11 crore. It is at this point that the fourth player should be paid a maximum of Rs 18 crores. But Kavya Maran has reduced the salary of the fourth player as he has paid more to the first three players. Accordingly, he has decided to buy the star player of the Sunrisers team, Travis Head of australia for 12 crore rupees.
While Travis Head went for just Rs 6 crore last season, now he has got Rs 12 crore. Travis Head's salary has also been reduced as it is not known whether he will be able to continue playing in the IPL. He played 15 matches for Sunrisers last season and scored 567 runs. It includes one hundred, and four half-centuries. In this, his strike rate is 191. Sunrisers are going to pick Nitish reddy as the fifth player. Nitish reddy should be paid at least 14 crore rupees. But the Sunrisers team has decided that the young player does not need that much money and has decided to retain him for six crore rupees.
With this five players are available for the Sunrisers team. Sunrisers will decide whether to pick either Bhuvneshwar Kumar or Natarajan or washington sundar as the sixth man. According to the IPL rules, five players can be retained by paying a salary cut and not more. But it should be noted that no more than 75 crore rupees should be spent. Kavya Maran is going to use this formula and it remains to be seen whether it will help the Sunrisers team or not.