Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer together earned Rs 53.75 crore in the Indian Premier League 2025 auction. Pant was bought by Lucknow Supergiants for 27 crores. Shreyas Iyer has joined the Punjab team. He has received Rs 26.75 crore. After the sale of these two players, Delhi Capitals owner Kiran Kumar Grandhi is in the news. Actually, it is believed that because of this, Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer have got more money than required. Not only this, Granthi is also being said to be behind the sale of Arshdeep Singh for Rs 18 crores. The question is why is this so?
Kiran Kumar Granthi did this game?
Let us now tell you why fans are targeting Granthi. When Shreyas Iyer’s name came up in the auction, there was a clash between KKR and Punjab Kings. After this Delhi made a bid of Rs 7.25 crore. Delhi took this bid to Rs 26.50 crore. Finally Punjab Kings bought Iyer by investing Rs 26.75 crores. Fans allege that Granthi deliberately made a bid to buy Iyer, because he knew that Punjab would definitely buy Iyer because he is captaincy material and their new head coach Ponting wants this player as the captain. However, Delhi also wanted to buy Iyer because this team was also looking for a captain.
That smile, that damned smile
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Wasted 26.75 crores of PBKS#IPLAuction pic.twitter.com/4bNZPL2IvR
— Aman (@CricketSatire) November 24, 2024
Pant’s speech played a game
There was something more amazing in Rishabh Pant’s speech. There was a fierce fight between Lucknow and Hyderabad to buy this player. The bids of both reached Rs 20.75 crore. But then Kiran Kumar Granthi removed the RTM card. The relationship between Pant and Delhi Capitals was not being said to be good but still RTM card was used for them. After this, Lucknow had to buy Pant for Rs 27 crores. Delhi finally refused to give this amount. Lucknow suffered a lot due to this step of Delhi.
Delhi bought two big players cheaply
Delhi Capitals bought two big players cheaply. Last season, this team bought players worth Rs 41.75 crore for Rs 25.75 crore. Delhi has bought Starc for Rs 11.75 crore and KL Rahul has joined this team for just Rs 14 crore, which is an amazing deal.
