Kolkata Knight Riders New Captain: The series of exciting news continues regarding IPL 2025, and now a big news has come out from the camp of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).
The KKR team, which won the title last season, has released its captain Shreyas Iyer for the upcoming season, due to which there is a need for a new captain in the team.
A name has emerged regarding the new captain of KKR which may be difficult for the fans to believe.
This big decision of the team has created a stir in the cricket world, and the fans are now eagerly waiting for the announcement of the new captain.
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Rinku Singh will be the next captain of KKR?
According to reports, Rinku Singh, who won the lost match for KKR by hitting five consecutive sixes in the last five balls, is going to become the new captain of Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2025.
Media sources say that Rinku Singh will be given command of the team in place of Shreyas Iyer. Although no official announcement has been made by the franchise yet, there is a lot of excitement about this news among the fans.
KKR retained 6 players
For IPL 2025, KKR has retained Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakraborty, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh and Harshit Rana.
KKR has retained 4 capped players and 2 uncapped players. Rinku Singh, who was worth Rs 55 lakh, has been retained by Kolkata for Rs 13 crore for the upcoming season.
Varun Chakraborty has been retained for Rs 12 crore, Sunil Narine for Rs 12 crore, Andre Russell for Rs 12 crore, Harshit Rana for Rs 4 crore and Ramandin Singh has also been retained for Rs 4 crore. (Kolkata Knight Riders New Captain)
Kolkata Knight Riders have spent around Rs 57 crore out of Rs 120 crore on retaining 6 players.
Now KKR will have Rs 63 crore in the mega auction of IPL 2025. Earlier it was being said that Kolkata Knight Riders wants to make Suryakumar Yadav the captain, but Surya will now stay in Mumbai.
In such a situation, KKR was looking for a new captain. Now the news is that KKR has approved the name of Rinku Singh as the captain. However, it has not been officially announced yet.