Sunrisers Hyderabad has released the list of its retained players for IPL 2025. Hyderabad has surprised everyone by spending Rs 23 crore on a single player. The big news is that this team has retained five players for which Hyderabad has spent Rs 75 crore. However, Hyderabad has created a strong base for its team by spending such a huge amount. Hyderabad has retained three foreign players, including captain Pat Cummins. However, he has given more money to a batsman than his captain.
Sunrisers Hyderabad retained these players
Apart from Pat Cummins, Sunrisers Hyderabad has retained batsman Heinrich Klaasen. Apart from him, Australian batsman Travis Head has been retained. Two young Indian players Nitish Reddy and Abhishek Sharma have also been retained by Sunrisers Hyderabad. Now let’s talk about money and team owner Kavya Maran has given the most money to Heinrich Klaasen. Klaasen has been retained by the team for a hefty sum of Rs 23 crores. Klaasen is a big match winner of the team and he is very effective against spinners on Indian pitches and that is why Hyderabad spent such a huge amount on him.
Money showered on Cummins Head too
Apart from Klaasen, Pat Cummins was retained by Hyderabad for Rs 18 crore. Travis Head was retained by the team for Rs 14 crores. Indian batsman Abhishek Sharma has been retained by the team for a hefty sum of Rs 14 crore. Nitish Reddy was retained by Hyderabad for Rs 6 crore.
Hyderabad did not retain many big players
Sunrisers Hyderabad did not retain players like Abdul Samad, Umran Malik. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Marco Janson are also out of the team. Apart from this, Rahul Tripathi, Washington Sundar and T Natarajan were also not retained.
These players of Hyderabad were not retained: Sanvir Singh, Upendra Singh Yadav, Abdul Samad, Mayank Agarwal, Umran Malik, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tripathi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Aiden Markram, Marco Yanson, Glenn Phillips, Fazalhaq Faruqui, Mayank Markande, Anmolpreet Singh, T Natarajan, Pat Cummins, Jaydev. Unadkat, Wanindu Hasaranga, Akash Singh, J Subramaniam.
