IPL 2025: Abhishek Sharma will need at least Rs 140000000 for retention from Sunrisers Hyderabad says…

New Delhi: Former Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) coach Tom Moody believes that the franchise could have a sweet headache in figuring out ways to keep a hold of Abhishek Sharma from a financial point of view. The left-handed batter’s stocks have risen after the foremost IPL 2024 season, while SRH have a kind of experienced International players lined up for the upper retention slab slots.

The logo new retention rule implies that teams can retain two players for INR 18 crores every, two for INR 14 crores every, and one for INR Eleven crores, severely impacting the INR a hundred and twenty crores budget. SRH, the second runners-up in 2024 IPL, have the key performers like captain Pat Cummins, Travis Head, and Heinrich Klaasen in their taking into account list and are allowed to retain all three.

Tom feels that Abhishek Sharma would prefer to get retained at 14 crore, because he may get that quantity of cash if he goes to the auction pool.

“To me, SRH have gotten the hardest job out of a kind of the teams purely because I do now now not think Abhishek Sharma goes to be accepting a retention lower than INR 14 crore. Because he'll be picked up for INR 14 crore plus on the opposite franchise or most other franchises,” Moody said on ESPN Cricinfo.

“So, they have got to somehow detect a technique to get their most influential players in Cummins and Head. In my head, they are the 2 together with Abhishek Sharma and still have the flexibility of right to ascertain,” he added.

Abhishek Sharma has now also got into the national setup on the back of his IPL 2024 heroics. He made his debut in the T20I series against Zimbabwe in July, scoring a century in his third day out.

Sharma found the foremost opening partner in Travis Head for the 2024 season because the duo broke records with their attacking batting style. Sharma amassed 484 runs at a strike rate of 204.22 in the IPL 2024 edition.