Venkatesh Iyer and Virat Kohli
The IPL 2025 mega auction will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In this, India’s star goalkeeper Rishabh Pant has become the most expensive player. The Lucknow Super Giants team bought him for Rs 27 crore. At the same time, the Kolkata Knight Riders team has spent money lavishly on young batsman Venkatesh Iyer. Venkatesh has become rich in the auction. He has received so much money that no one expected. The KKR team included him in the team by paying a hefty amount of Rs 23.75 crore. While its base price was only 2 million rupees.
Venkatesh Iyer benefited
Previously, Venkatesh Iyer’s salary at Kolkata Knight Riders was just Rs 8 crore. But this time they have benefited greatly. KKR has neither retained nor bought Shreyas Iyer. In such a situation, Venkatesh Iyer is the biggest candidate to become captain. He has made KKR win many matches with his excellent batting. The special thing is that he can play from the opening to the middle order.
Third player to score a century in the IPL for KKR
Venkatesh Iyer has so far scored a total of 1326 runs in 51 IPL matches, in which he has scored one century and 11 half-centuries. He is only the third Indian player to score a century for KKR in the IPL. Apart from this, he has also acquired three wickets to his name in bowling. His performance in IPL 2021 had improved a lot. Then he single-handedly led the team to the final. He scored a total of 370 runs that season.
Salary is more than Virat Kohli
Venkatesh Iyer now got so much money in the auction that RCB did not even retain Virat Kohli. RCB signed Kohli for a total of Rs 21 crore. Iyer’s salary is Rs 2.75 crore more than his. While Iyer has played only four seasons in IPL. On the other hand, Kohli has been playing in IPL since 2008.
KKR had retained 6 players
In IPL retention, KKR team had retained 6 players and did not leave a single option to RTM. KKR had retained Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakraborty, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh.
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