Former India player Aakash Chopra has said that the SRH might consider releasing Ishan Kishan after IPL 2025. He also added that the franchise does not have too many big players who don’t deserve to be retained as well. However, SRH beat the LSG by six wickets. Although Kishan scored 35 runs off 28 deliveries and smashed an unbeaten 106 off 47 deliveries in their tournament opener against the RR, he has scored only 231 runs at a below-par average of 25.67 in 11 innings so far as well.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “If we look at it from their perspective, if Abhishek Sharma plays like this, it seems like he is very good, as he is playing extremely well. Atharva Taide was there in this match. Otherwise, Travis Head is there. You feel that is also fine. This team might think about Ishan Kishan as to what needs to be done. He scored a century, but he had probably scored 144 (196) runs in total before the last match started. If there is a drought after a century, there is a question about the direction you should go.”

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“They won’t be able to release too many expensive players. Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Heinrich Klaasen, Pat Cummins, Nitish Kumar Reddy – you will retain them and not let them go. I am saying they would also retain Harshal Patel and Jaydev Unadkat. They should retain Adam Zampa and they might also want to retain Zeeshan Ansari,” he shared again.

However, Aakash Chopra also said that the SRH might consider changing their ultra-aggressive batting approach in IPL 2026, but they would eventually stick to the same template.

“They will definitely ask themselves a question as to whether they should change their playing template. They might think about it, but then they will think they shouldn’t. They don’t need to make too many changes. If they play like they played in the last match, where Heinrich Klaasen comes, and Abhishek Sharma comes at the top, and if Travis Head is there with him, and Nitish Kumar Reddy’s bat also starts firing, things are absolutely fine. They chase a 200-run target without breaking a sweat. I feel Hyderabad will see it from that perspective,” Aakash Chopra concluded.