IPL 2025, Suryakumar Yadav, KKR New Captain: Kolkata Knight Riders, who won the title in IPL 2024, is making a big plan. The franchise is going to change its champion captain. It is reported that Shreyas Iyer will not be the captain of KKR in IPL 2025. The team will now get a new captain in place of Iyer. The franchise can announce it soon.
According to the report, Kolkata Knight Riders have contacted Mumbai Indians’ Suryakumar Yadav. The report also claims that KKR has offered Suryakumar the captaincy. Many media reports have given information about Suryakumar Yadav becoming the captain of KKR.
33-year-old Suryakumar Yadav was part of the Mumbai Indians team in IPL 2024. He has been playing for Mumbai for a long time. Suryakumar is now the world’s number one batsman in T20 International, and he is also the captain of Team India in T20. Let us tell you that Suryakumar has also played for Kolkata Knight Riders before.
Suryakumar can come to Kolkata through trade
For your information, let us tell you that a mega auction is to be organized before IPL 2025. Earlier in the mega auction, teams could retain only four players. However, it is reported that now IPL has allowed the teams to retain six players. In such a situation, all the teams will have to retain six players and release all the rest. KKR can trade Suryakumar Yadav with Mumbai Indians. In the trade deal, a KKR player can go to Mumbai or KKR can give Surya’s money to Mumbai.
Earlier, there were reports many times that Suryakumar Yadav was not happy with many decisions of Mumbai Indians. There was even news that Mumbai would release Surya before the upcoming season. However, when Suryakumar became the captain of Team India, there were also reports that Mumbai Indians would make Suryakumar the captain instead of Hardik. Whatever happens at the moment, IPL 2025 is going to be very exciting in many ways.
