IPL 2025, Kolkata Knight Riders: IPL 2025 has already started in earnest. The mega auction is going to be held before the IPL next year. As a result, radical changes will be seen in every team. Every franchisee is creating their strategy before sitting at the auction table.

The champion team of IPL 2024, Kolkata Knight Riders i.e. KKR can take a big step before the upcoming season. There is news that defending champion Kolkata can make a big announcement regarding its captain in the coming few days.

Shreyas Iyer led the team to the championship last time. However, he was not found in a very good rhythm with the bat. Apart from this, a section of cricket experts gave more importance to Gautam Gambhir's mentorship than Shreyas' captaincy as the reason for KKR's championship.

Two surprising names are emerging as potential captains of KKR next season. A portal named Cricketkida claims that KKR has offered Suryakumar the captaincy for the next season, though Surya has yet to respond to the offer.

Rumors about Suryakumar Yadav as KKR Captain
33-year-old Surya has been one of the best batsmen in T20 cricket for the last few years. After several consecutive seasons of stellar performance for Mumbai Indians in the IPL, he was included in Team India and then became the captain of the team within a few days. Surya is counted among the dangerous batsmen in the shortest format of cricket. In such a situation, there is a competition among many IPL teams to make him their captain.

Suryakumar Yadav has been a part of Kolkata in IPL before. Surya was in the KKR team between 2014 and 2017 and during this period he scored 608 runs in 54 matches at an average of 22.52 and strike rate of 131.89. Playing his first season for KKR in IPL 2024, Surya was successful in winning the title. That season, Kolkata won the IPL title by defeating Punjab Kings (then Kings XI Punjab) in the final played in Bengaluru.

After joining Mumbai Indians in IPL 2018, Suryakumar's batting reached a different level. He achieved the great feat of winning the trophy with Mumbai in two consecutive seasons i.e. 2019 and 2020. Due to his excellent performance in IPL, he managed to debut for Team India in the year 2021. Since then he did not look back. Surya was a part of the Indian team that won the T20 World Cup 2024 title this year. He played an important role in the team winning the title by taking a brilliant catch on the boundary line in the final.

Now Suryakumar Yadav is Team India's T20I Captain so if Kolkata Knight Riders appointed Surya as captain of their team it will be a good move. However, another source claims that Rohit Sharma, the successful captain of Mumbai Indians, can be seen as the captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders team in the upcoming IPL.

There are speculations that Rohit may leave Mumbai Indians. Several teams may jump for Rohit. KKR could be one of them. Incidentally, in an interview, Rohit said, "Kolkata and Eden Gardens are my favorite because many memories of my life are connected there. So I would definitely want to play for Kolkata if not Mumbai.”