Is Suryakumar Posing A Threat To Mumbai Indians By Joining KKR As Captain in IPL 2025? Exploring The Potential Scenarios

New Delhi: The IPL 2025 retention policy announcement is causing quite a stir in the cricketing world as reports surface of Yuvraj Singh in discussions with Delhi Capitals. However, a viral social media claim has thrown a spanner in the works, suggesting that Kolkata Knight Riders, three-time IPL champions, have approached Suryakumar Yadav for the captaincy role in the upcoming season. The newsmakers are now faced with a dilemma as they navigate through these intriguing developments.

Suryakumar, who has played for Kolkata Knight Riders for a few seasons before, had joined Mumbai Indians in 2018. One of the most destructive T20 players in the current era, Suryakumar has been a pillar for Mumbai Indians for the past seven years.
Based on the viral claim, KKR will trade their IPL 2024 title-winning captain Shreyas Iyer to Mumbai Indians in return for Suryakumar. But the biggest question at the moment is will KKR let go of their IPL-winning captain?

The Shah Rukh Khan co-owned franchise can’t trade Iyer to Mumbai Indians for Suryakumar before the IPL 2025 mega auction as there are no trading windows available. In that case, Suryakumar has to leave Mumbai Indians and enter the auction even if KKR have made him an offer beforehand.

However, things will be difficult for KKR in the mega auction as far as Suryakumar is concerned since almost all the teams will throw their hats to sign the Indian T20I captain.