IPL 2025: All the teams have released their retention list in IPL 2025. In which many big Indian players have not been retained, due to which they will have to come in the auction. Not only KL Rahul but many big Indian players will participate in the auction which includes stars like Rahul, Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer.
If media reports are to be believed, there were reports of Rahul joining Royal Challengers Bangalore. However, this has not been confirmed yet as the IPL auction is yet to take place. While there are many other franchises too, who can include Rahul in their team. According to media reports, Rahul was not getting the captaincy of Lucknow Super Giants due to which he has decided not to be retained.
However, if media reports are to be believed, even if Rahul joins the Bangalore team, it is difficult for him to get captaincy there. Because according to media reports, Virat Kohli can once again take over the captaincy of the Bangalore team. Virat last captained Bangalore in 2021, after which he decided to step down from the captaincy. Bangalore's trophy drought did not end even under Virat's captaincy.
Virat has captained the IPL for almost a decade, but his team has not been successful in winning the trophy. But once again speculations are being made that if the Bangalore team is not able to find a captain in the auction, then Virat can once again return as captain.
Talking about Rahul's captaincy in IPL, he has been captaining IPL since 2020 and he has captained teams in 5 seasons so far. In which his team has been successful in reaching the playoffs only twice.
Rahul was the captain of Punjab Kings in 2020 and 2021, where under his captaincy the team missed qualifying for the playoffs, whereas after this he captained Lucknow for the next 3 years, in which he helped his team qualify for the playoffs twice. Have achieved success.
