IPL Auction 2025: Australian bias! Aakash Chopra claims Ricky Ponting will inflate Jake Fraser-McGurk’s price

Former India National Cricket Team player Aakash Chopra came up with a massive statement ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction 2025. He feels that Punjab Kings coach Ricky Ponting being Australian will drive up the price of Jake Fraser-McGurk in the bidding event.

The Indian Premier League (IPL) auction 2025 is around the corner and the preparations are in full flow by all the franchises. The teams have been working on the players they want to retain for the next edition of the league, as the deadline for that is just a few hours around the corner.

Almost every franchise has finalized their retentions

Almost every franchise has finalized their retentions as, as many reports have revealed about their retentions along with the price slab at which the players will be with them for IPL 2025. The mega auction is set to be a blockbuster event as some of the big names are set to go under the hammer.

The likes of KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Andre Russell, David Warner, Faf Du Plessis, and others will be in the IPL 2025 auction. This means that the stakes will be very high this time around and it won't be a surprise if the record of the highest bid gets shattered as well.

Delhi Capitals will be retaining Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs and Abishek Porel

Coming to the retentions for the Delhi Capitals, earlier, there were reports that claimed that they would be retaining their core group. But the recent developments in the franchise have made things look different. As per the reports, the team will retain only 4 players and this doesn't even include Rishabh Pant and Jake Fraser-McGurk.

The reports claimed that Delhi Capitals will be retaining Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs, and Abishek Porel. This means that they will be parting ways with the Jake Fraser-McGurk as well. The Australia National Cricket Team batter set the stage on fire in IPL 2024.

Looks like DC isn’t retaining Jake Fraser-McGurk…now, PBKS (biggest purse—Aus coach) will ensure that his price goes through the roof - Aakash Chopra

With the way, Jake Fraser-McGurk batted in the last IPL and slammed bowlers, he would be getting high bucks in the IPL 2025 auction. Aakash Chopra feels that with Delhi Capitals not retaining the batter, Ricky Ponting will ensure that his price goes up.

While talking about the same, he explained: "Looks like DC isn’t retaining JFM…now, PBKS (biggest purse—Aus coach) will ensure that his price goes through the roof. Player Retention has this very important dynamic.

"Teams approaching players…promising that they’ve kept X amount for them…so, don’t get retained. Auction might still play out differently, but it seems like a few players have chosen to take that chance."

Looks like DC isn’t retaining JFM…now, PBKS (biggest purse—Aus coach) will ensure that his price goes through the roof.
Player Retention has this very important dynamic. Teams approaching players…promising that they’ve kept X amount for them…so, don’t get retained. Auction…

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) October 31, 2024

Jake Fraser-McGurk made his debut in the IPL in the 2024 season and played 9 matches, in which he scored 330 runs at a strike rate of 234.04.