The surprise winner of the title for most expensive retained player

New Delhi: The 10 IPL franchises have revealed the list of players they have retained for the upcoming IPL 2025 season. Surprisingly, Sunrisers Hyderabad made the headlines by retaining Heinrich Klaasen for a whopping Rs 23 crores, making him the most expensive player retained for the tournament.

Heinrich Klaasen was the most expensive in the list of players retained in the IPL this time. Talking about Indian players, the most expensive was Virat Kohli, who was retained by RCB for Rs 21 crore. The second most expensive foreign player was Nicholas Pooran, who was retained for Rs 21 crore.

Heinrich Klaasen was the most expensive:

This time the Hyderabad team retained 5 players, in which they kept Heinrich Klaasen at number one and retained him by paying him Rs 23 crore. Klaasen was the highest-paid player among the retained players. The team retained Pat Cummins for Rs 18 crore, Abhishek Sharma for Rs 14 crore, Travis Head also for Rs 14 crore while Nitish Reddy was retained for Rs 6 crore.

Virat Kohli was the second most expensive:

In the list of Indian players to be retained, Virat Kohli was the most expensive, whom RCB retained for the next season by paying 21 crores. Kohli has been associated with this team since 2008 and in the last season, he also scored the most runs for this team. At the same time, the second most expensive player among the Indian players was Jaspreet Bumrah, who was retained by Mumbai for 18 crores while Sanju Samson was retained by Rajasthan Royals for 18 crores.