Former India player turned commentator Aakash Chopra has said that the Rajasthan Royals (RR) should release Shimron Hetmyer after IPL 2025 as well. He also added that the swashbuckling batter, who was retained for a huge sum, has failed to finish games for his side.

Reflecting on RR’s chase in a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, he said, “Dhruv Jurel played a good knock once again, but couldn’t finish. I won’t say the ₹14 crore investment in him was wrong, but the truth is that they have fallen just short in run chases many times, and Dhruv Jurel was standing in the end in all those games. Dhruv Jurel is standing there and scoring runs, but is unable to finish matches, and that becomes a bit of an issue.”

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“This team should release Shimron Hetmyer. You have kept him after wasting ₹11 crore because he hasn’t performed at all, and these were the games he should have won. Then Dhruv Jurel is left alone, and even if Shimron Hetmyer is there with him, he doesn’t finish games,” he further added.

Reflecting on the start of RR’s chase, Aakash Chopra added that Vaibhav Suryavanshi showed greater maturity in the game as well.

“They started extremely well. Vaibhav Suryavanshi, we saw a century as well, but the maturity is being seen now. He was playing the short-of-length deliveries cautiously, but after that, the way he hit Arshdeep Singh and Marco Jansen, he played outstanding shots. Yashasvi Jaiswal was batting incredibly well, but he will have to learn one thing – he needs to finish matches. He leaves the match in the middle, and the team is unable to win. When he was playing, the Orange Cap had also come on his head, but he needs to finish games off,” Aakash Chopra concluded.