Tension increasing around the IPL 2025 mega auction. BCCI asked all ten franchises to submit their retainer list by October 31st. All the participating IPL teams can hold their six players from previous squads. Every IPL team fan is eagerly waiting to know which players their respective teams are going to retain. There are some speculations about Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad. Mumbai Indians on social media discussion mainly for Rohit Sharma and Sunrisers Hyderabad is creating attention because their probable players who the franchise can retain like Heinrich Klaasen, Pat Cummins, and Abhishek Sharma will remain. Between these speculations, there’s a big update: former South African bowler Dale Steyn made an announcement from his social media account, ‘X’.
Dale Steyn was appointed by Sunrisers Hyderabad as the fast bowling coach of his team in December 2021, after which he has played this responsibility for three consecutive seasons. In the last IPL season, Dale Steyn worked with the new captain of the Hyderabad team, Pat Cummins, in which the team managed to reach the final. Steyn wrote on social media, “I would like to thank the Sunrisers Hyderabad team for giving me the opportunity to take up the responsibility of bowling coach in the IPL. I won’t be coming back for IPL 2025. However, I will continue to work with Sunrisers Eastern Cape at SA20 in South Africa. Two-time winners in the SA20, Sunrisers will try to get the trophy for the Eastern Cape for the third time in a row.”
Cricket announcement.
A big thank you to Sunrisers Hyderabad for my few years with them as bowling coach at the IPL, unfortunately, I won’t be returning for IPL 2025.
However, I will continue to work with Sunrisers Eastern Cape in the SA20 here in South Africa. 🇿🇦Two time…
— Dale Steyn (@DaleSteyn62) October 16, 2024
The Sunrisers Hyderabad team made several major changes to its coaching staff just before the IPL season played in 2024, in which Daniel Vettori was made the new head coach, although despite this, they retained Dale Steyn as the bowling coach. At the same time, who the Sunrisers Hyderabad team appoints on this position, everyone’s eyes are also going to be on it.