Former India player Aakash Chopra has commented on Shreyas Iyer’s recent statement that he parted ways with the franchise ahead of the IPL 2025 auction due to a lack of communication as well. He said that the IPL 2024 winning captain and the franchise couldn’t reach an
agreement. Notably, KKR released Shreyas ahead of the IPL 2025 auction and he was bought by the Punjab Kings (PBKS) for ₹26.75 crore at the auction as well.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, he said, “Shreyas Iyer’s statement is interesting, that no one spoke to him. Now you start wondering. Since Shreyas Iyer was the captain, he should have been in the original scheme of things. He said KKR didn’t even speak to him. I can confirm the conversation happened, it was lengthy and happened many times. You couldn’t reach an agreement there. That’s a separate issue.”
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“I am not going to spell it out but it was the same bone of contention that is usually there. Interestingly enough, Shreyas also had some apprehensions about what would happen as he might end up somewhere. Based on what happened, sometimes you start thinking that karma is real,” he further added.
In the same video, Aakash Chopra stated that the KKR have always tried to stick with their main players as well.
“Let’s try to understand Kolkata’s history a little, as to what sort of franchise it is. You may like or dislike franchises. You have a personal connect with someone and not with the other. You like someone’s bad things and you find someone’s good things bad also. However, there is one thing certain about Kolkata. They have tried to maintain their core quite a bit,” he said.
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“Sunil Narine and Andre Russell, whether there might have been questions raised on the action or been banned by WADA, they didn’t leave them. They tried their best. Since how many years has Venkatesh Iyer been with the team and when they couldn’t retain him, they bought him for nearly ₹24 crore. So this is a franchise that invests a little in relationships,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
