Big players on whom RTM card was not used in IPL 2025 Mega Auction: A mega auction is being held before the 18th edition of IPL. The first day of which was very tremendous for many players. On the first day, many players from India and abroad were sold. Among them, there were many players on whom the franchise spent a lot of money and brought them into their fold, while there were many players who were retained by their old franchise through RTM.
This time, there was a relaxation to use RTM card in retention. In such a situation, the option of RTM card was open to many teams during the mega auction. In such a situation, it was believed that the teams would get back their key players whom they could not retain by using RTM card. But on the first day of this mega auction, there were 3 such big players, who were betrayed by their old team by not signing them.
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South Africa's star wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock was a part of Lucknow Supergiants for the last few years. He was also successful in performing well for this team, but despite this, Lucknow did not use the RTM card on this star player during the mega auction. In such a situation, de Kock became a part of Kolkata Knight Riders for a price of Rs 3.60 crore.
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Team India's veteran fast bowler Mohammed Shami was bid big in the IPL mega auction and he became a part of Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 10 crore. Mohammed Shami had a tremendous performance for Gujarat Titans in IPL 2022 and 2023. He could not play last year due to injury. But Gujarat did not use the RTM card for Shami. Gujarat could have taken him, but he was betrayed.
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Indian cricket team's young star fast bowler Mohammed Siraj was playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL for the last few years. This player contributed as the main fast bowler for RCB. It was believed that RCB would either buy Siraj or get him in their team through RTM. But Siraj was betrayed by RCB and he was not put in their team using RTM card. After which he became a part of Gujarat Titans.
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