5 in-form Indian players who deserve to get picked in the IPL 2025 auction

With a couple of days to go for the IPL 2025 auction, we take a look at some of the top Indian players released on retention day who deserve to get a bid from franchises, if not a bidding war

Not only did Arshdeep Singh star in India’s T20 World Cup triumph this year, he also was in red-hot form in the T20I series in South Africa recently

Rishabh Pant scored 446 runs at a strike rate of 155.40 in the IPL earlier this year, his first competitive appearance since December 2022, and had been in superb form in the recent Test series’ against Bangladesh and New Zealand

Shreyas Iyer scored 351 runs at a strike rate of 146.86 in the IPL earlier this year, captained KKR to their third title and recently struck back-to-back centuries in the Ranji Trophy, including 233 against Odisha

Yuzvendra Chahal had collected 18 wickets for RR in the IPL earlier this year and had recently collected consecutive 10-wicket match hauls for Northamptonshire in the County Championship

Not only was T Natarajan SRH’s leading wicket-taker in IPL 2024, he was also among the most successful bowlers in the TNPL recently

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