once the auction rules are announced, we dig a lot deeper and we do a lot of work in terms of analytic and evaluation of what the best options are for us in terms of how many retentions, who are they, what is the ideal sweetspot in terms of an auction purse? "It was quite a tough choice for all of us to sit down and run through the names, the options, the auction nitty gritty in terms of managing our retention and our purse, what the best options and permutations were. The Lankan legend explained why they let go of Jofra Archer and Ben Stokes, which surprised many. Everyone in the world knows what he can do, whether at the top of the order or middle order or wherever he plays. "In terms of the sole international retention we have gone with Jos Buttler.
He is a very very quick learner, he is a hard worker and he will be our uncapped retention," Sangakkara said. "We have retained Yashasvi Jaiswal, the young Indian opener, an absolute star in the making, he had a very very good season pre-retention, extremely talented. His skipper Samson remains the youngest at 19 years and 2 months.
The 19-year-old Jaiswal has become the second-youngest player ever to be retained across all IPL teams before the mega auction. Their second retained player at a cost of Rs 10 crore is the ODI World Cup-winning Buttler, considered by many as one of the best T20I batters in the world currently. Having appointed Samson as their captain before the 2021 season, the Royals have chosen the batter as the first retained player for Rs 14 crore. He is an exceptional player and he has shown time and time again what a wonderful asset he has been for RR." "He is going to be the long-term leader of this unit of Rajasthan Royals. ? #RoyalsFamily | /3L2fxfpM1W- Rajasthan Royals December 2, 2021 Sanga reveals the reasons behind retaining our three Royals.
"We worked really hard in terms of working with our newly-formed data analytic team, with the help of all our partners in India and in the US we finally decided, of course Sanju Samson, it was a no-brainer in terms of being our captain, number one," Sangakkara said in a video posted by RR on twitter. Ahead of the IPL 2022 auction, the franchise retained two Indians and one overseas player in the form of their influential skipper Samson, uncapped young batter Yashasvi Jaiswal and star Englishman Jos Buttler. Swashbuckling keeper-batter Sanju Samson is Rajasthan Royals' "long-term leader", the IPL franchise's director of cricket, Kumar Sangakkara, said on Thursday while terming his retention a "no-brainer".
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