IPL 2025 Most Expensive Retention: The 18th season of IPL will be played in the year 2025. There will also be a mega auction before this season, for which all the teams have intensified their preparations. Before the auction, all the teams got a chance to retain maximum 6-6 players. All 10 IPL teams have announced their retention list. Virat Kohli will once again be seen playing for the Royal Challengers Bangalore team. RCB has spent a lot of money on him. But one player in the retention list has managed to earn more money than him.
This time a total of 3 players have been retained for more than Rs 20 crore, the name of Virat Kohli is included in them. Royal Challengers Bangalore has retained Virat Kohli for Rs 21 crore. Whereas, Nicholas Pooran and Heinrich Klaasen are the remaining two players who have received more than Rs 20 crore. Lucknow Super Giants have also given Rs 21 crore to Nicholas Puran. But Heinrich Klaasen has gone two steps ahead of these two players. He has become the most expensive player to be retained this time.
Sunrisers Hyderabad has retained Heinrich Klaasen for Rs 23 crore. There has been a huge increase in Heinrich Klaasen's IPL salary. Last season, he got only Rs 5.25 crore for playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad. But now he will take Rs 23 crore. At the same time, Virat Kohli got Rs 15 crore for the last season. But this time he has become India's most expensive player to be retained.
Money has also been showered on star players like Rashid Khan, Pat Cummins, Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Ravindra Jadeja. Rajasthan Royals have retained Sanju Samson and Yashasvi Jaiswal for Rs 18 crore each. Sunrisers Hyderabad has also given Rs 18 crore to Pat Cummins. Ruturaj Gaikwad and Ravindra Jadeja also remain in the Chennai Super Kings team with Rs 18 crores.
