IPL 2025: The Indian team is currently playing a four-match T20 series with South Africa, in which the team has won two matches of the series and lost one match.

Meanwhile, all the franchises have released their retention list for the upcoming IPL 2025. In which some players have been retained while some players have not. A player included in Team India who did not perform well in the team, despite this Kavya Maran has retained him.

Abhishek Sharma retained for IPL 2025

All the franchises have started their preparations for IPL 2025. Regarding this, the list of retained players has also been released on the evening of 31 October, in which Sunrisers Hyderabad owner Kavya Maran has retained young batsman Abhishek Sharma in the team.

Abhishek may have performed very well in the last IPL season, due to which he got a chance to debut in Team India, but after that his performance was not very good. After which questions are being raised on Kavya Maran regarding the retention of Abhishek Sharma.

Flopped in International

Abhishek Sharma got a chance to debut in Team India in view of his IPL performance, but he could not live up to the expectations with which Abhishek was given a debut. His bat has mostly remained silent in international cricket. He has scored only one century in T20 International, in the series against Zimbabwe. After that Abhishek's bat remained silent. Abhishek has got a chance in the series against Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and now South Africa.

Sunrisers Hyderabad retained players for IPL 2025

Kavya Maran has retained five players for IPL 2025, first of which is Heinrich Klaasen, who has been retained by the team for 23 crores. After him, the second is the team captain Pat Cummins, who has been retained by the team for 18 crores. After this, Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head have been retained for 14-14 crores. Finally, the franchise has retained Nitish Reddy for 6 crores.