Why Shreyas Iyer Not Retained By KKR For IPL 2025: Last Thursday (31 October), all 10 teams announced the players to be retained for IPL 2025. While releasing the retention list, the most shocking decision was taken by the last season (IPL 2024) champion Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). KKR released the champion captain Shreyas Iyer, after which questions started arising as to why the Kolkata franchise did this? Now team CEO Vanky Mysore made a shocking revelation.
Vanky Mysore, in his recent interview with RevSportz, revealed why the franchise released captain Shreyas Iyer. The CI of the franchise said that there were many factors in releasing Iyer, including money. Apart from this, he also mentioned that the real value of any player is known only in the auction. From these words of Vanky Mysore it became clear that Shreyas Iyer was released because of money.
Not only this, it was also claimed in many media reports that Iyer had demanded a lot of money from KKR for retention before IPL 2025. Let us tell you that Vanky Mysore also said that Iyer was the first name in his retained list, but due to various reasons he could not remain with the team.
In an interview, Venky Mysore said, “He was number one on our list because he is the captain and we have to build everything around leadership and we had selected him specifically for this in 2022. Unfortunately, he was injured in 2023. When he came back he got his captaincy back. We made it clear that he would be an integral part of it.”
Iyer has played IPL for 2 teams so far
Shreyas Iyer made his IPL debut in 2015 for Delhi Capitals. After this he remained a part of Delhi till 2021 and then came to Kolkata Knight Riders. Now it will be interesting to see who will be their third team in the tournament.
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