IPL Auction 2025: KL Rahul-Mumbai Indians deal cooking in the background!! Shocking reports emerge

Star India wicketkeeper-batter KL Rahul could join Mumbai Indians in IPL 2025. The reports have claimed that Mumbai Indians are set to bid for KL Rahul in the IPL auction 2025 as they are looking for a potential wicketkeeping option as well.

KL Rahul was not included in the retention list of Lucknow Super Giants for the IPL 2025 season. It means that he will be one of the few marquee players who are set to go for a big price in the upcoming auctions.

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Mumbai Indians set to bid for KL Rahul

Some IPL updates -
- Virat Kohli Captaining RCB not looking very strong now
- Mumbai Indians likely go for KL Rahul
- Shami & Umran for GT, yes there are chances

— रोहित जुगलान Rohit Juglan (@rohitjuglan) November 11, 2024

According to RevSportz, KL Rahul could join Mumbai Indians for the upcoming season of IPL. The five-time defending champions are looking for an experienced wicketkeeping option who can also bat at the top order.

Rahul could be a perfect player for Mumbai Indians given his versatility to bat at any position in the batting order. While he has opened the batting for the most part of his IPL career, Rahul has also shown his class in the middle order.

When he started playing the IPL for Royal Challengers Bangalore (now Bengaluru) in 2013, he used to bat in the middle order and impressed everyone with his performance. He played for RCB from 2013 to 2016.

IPL 2016 was his breakthrough year where he scored 397 runs in 14 matches at an average of 44.11 and a strike rate of 146.49. Rahul batted in the middle order this season, mostly at No. 4, as RCB had a top-heavy batting line-up with the likes of Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli, and AB de Villiers.

KL Rahul IPL numbers

KL Rahul has a solid IPL record as well which can make him an expensive player in the auction. He has played 132 matches so far and scored 4683 runs at an impressive average of 45.47 and a strike rate of 134.61. He has struck 4 hundreds and 37 fifties in his IPL career. He has played for four IPL teams so far - Royal Challengers Bangalore, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Kings XI Punjab, and Lucknow Super Giants.

Rahul will be one of the players to watch out for in the IPL 2025 auction. Apart from him, some other international Indian players like Rishabh Pant, Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, and many more players will be up in the auction as well.

Mumbai Indians looking for wicketkeeper-batter

Mumbai Indians are looking for a solid wicketkeeper-batter in the absence of Ishan Kishan, who was not included in the team's retention list for the next season. Kishan's up-and-down form, combined with his inconsistency, hasn't helped his cause and he will be up in this year's mega auction as well.

Ishan Kishan was signed by Mumbai Indians in the IPL 2022 mega auction for a whopping price of INR 15.25 crore. He scored over 300 runs in IPL 2022 and 2023 seasons but was below par in IPL 2024 when he was expected to play big knocks on flat wickets.