Ruturaj Gaikwad or Ravindra Jadeja: Who will be CSK’s 2nd retention ahead of IPL 2025 mega auction, former player says THIS…

New Delhi: Former India cricketer Aakash Chopra reckons the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) may perchance desire a catch 22 situation in choosing between Ruturaj Gaikwad and Ravindra Jadeja as their first capped player retention earlier than the IPL 2025 auction. The former India opener opined that MS Dhoni will likely be the franchise’s first retention as an uncapped player.

Ruturaj scored 583 runs at a median of fifty three.00 in 14 innings, Gaikwad was once the 2d-very best run-getter in IPL 2024, behind only Virat Kohli with 741 runs. On the opposite hand Jadeja, amassed 267 runs in eleven innings and picked up eight wickets at an economy rate of 7.eighty five in 14 innings.

In a video shared on his official YouTube channel, Chopra said that CSK may perchance desire a hard time in choosing between Gaikwad and Jadeja as their 18-crore retention.

“You're going to retain Dhoni as an uncapped Indian for four crores. So that’s your first retention. In my opinion, this team has just two players who want to present 18 crores – one is the captain and the opposite is an ex-captain and an incredibly important player of this team – Ruturaj Gaikwad and Ravindra Jadeja,” he said.

“That you may in point of fact would want to should present 18 crores each to both of them but who will likely be the 2d retention, Rutu or Jaddu – that’s a giant question. Assuming you told Rutu that you simply would retain him for 18 crores, and convinced Jaddu to be retained for 14 crores, the third retention from the capped category must be Shivam Dube,” the former KKR player added.

Chopra means that Shivam Dube may o.k. be CSK’s third capped retention, following Ruturaj Gaikwad and Ravindra Jadeja because the likely first two choices in that category.

“I am looking towards Indian players who have game-changing abilities and Shivam Dube’s performance for this franchise has been incredible. The third very big metric is that if I let this player go, for the way a lot will he be sold at the auction? You've gotten it truly is easy to have gotten got the Right To Match card, so it’s now not that which that you simply may’t build the core. Suppose you retain only two, which that you simply may get four RTMs,” he said.

Dube scored 396 runs at a strike rate of 162.29 in 14 innings in IPL 2024. He delivered few match-winning performances inside of the first 1/2 of of the tournament but lost his touch because the season improved.