IPL 2025: 5 Capped and 1 uncapped player SRH might retain ahead of the mega-auction

1. Travis Head

There are plenty of options available for Hyderabad when it comes to retention. Captain Pat Cummins should be one of them but there’s uncertainty whether he will be available for selection given that Australia will be hosting Ashes later in 2025. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Wanindu Hasaranga and Nitish Reddy are some of the options they can think of, but they are unlikely to let Head leave.

The Australia international was arguably the best opener in IPL 2024. He smashed 567 runs in 15 matches at a marauding strike rate of 191.55 and like Klaasen and Abhishek, SRH are very unlikely to let him go. He was very consistent and managed to give good starts to Hyderabad which helped them qualify for the final.

The team management also gave him the freedom to express himself. He wasn’t afraid to play an aggressive brand of cricket and that is probably going to be the template as far as T20 cricket is concerned. Head also has a good understanding of Indian pitches and that’s another reason why the team might back him ahead of the next edition.

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