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Rinku Singh wants to play for RCB in IPL 2025 unless KKR retains him!

The atmosphere has already become heated regarding IPL 2025. The special thing is that this time a mega auction is to be held before IPL. In which many big faces will be seen being auctioned. Regarding this, Sports Tak talked to Rinku Singh and wanted to know that if Kolkata Knight Riders does not take him back in their team, then which team would he prefer to play for. So let us know whether Rinku Singh wants to play for this team.

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Rinku would like to play for RCB

For your information, while talking to Sports Tak, Rinku Singh told about his favorite team. He said that if KKR does not give him a place in their team, then he would like to play for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2025. Let us tell you that even though RCB has not won the IPL trophy yet, the team is still liked a lot and players are often seen expressing their desire to play for Bengaluru.

As we all know that Rinku Singh and Virat Kohli get along very well. As we saw that during the 2024 IPL, Rinku had asked for a bat from Virat Kohli and it broke while playing. After which Rinku was seen asking for another bat from Virat. After which the video of their conversation was going viral very fast and this video was also much discussed.

Will Kolkata retain Rinku?

For your information, let us tell you that Kolkata Knight Riders included Rinku Singh in their team in the year 2018 for a price of Rs 80 lakh. After which till now KKR has retained Rinku in its team. After which, KKR had retained Rinku in their team in the mega auction held in the year 2022. That year, there was a low bid on Rinku and he was bought by KKR for Rs 55 lakh. Rinku has been associated with KKR for a long time, considering that it does not seem at all that the KKR team will not retain Rinku.

Rinku’s IPL career

It is noteworthy that Rinku has played 45 IPL matches so far. Batting in 40 innings of these matches, he has scored 893 runs at an average of 30.79 and strike rate of 143.34. During this period, he has scored 4 half-centuries, in which his high score was 67 runs.