It seems this decision might haunt the Rajasthan Royals (RR) camp for a long time. Which decision? Letting go of their star batter Jos Buttler at the mega auction. What fans can't wrap their heads around is the fact that the team chose to retain Shimron Hetmyer and Dhruv Jurel—both for quite high prices.
While Hetmyer was retained for ?11 crore and Jurel for ?14 crore, both have underperformed in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. In the must-win clash against the Mumbai Indians (MI), Hetmyer departed for a duck, while Jurel managed just 11 off 11 balls—both getting out at a time when their team desperately needed them.
Many netizens took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to question how Rajasthan Royals made the blunder of not retaining or even bringing back Jos Buttler at the auction.
One user wrote, "If you ever feel dumb about your decision, don't regret it. Mighty Rajasthan Royals retained Dhruv Jurel and Shimron Hetmyer over Jos Buttler."
Another commented, "Reminder that Shimron Hetmyer and Dhruv Jurel were retained for 25 crores together, ahead of Jos Buttler and Yuzi Chahal. They've bottled a 9 needed off 6 balls vs DC, and 8 needed off 6 balls vs LSG this season."
One user added, "Thank you to RR management and Rahul Dravid for ruining this team. You clowns give 14 cr & 11 cr to Jurel and Hetmyer, who didn't even score 14 and 11 runs on this batting pitch. Thank you very much for ruining such an awesome team. Even a brain-dead person could do better retention than you guys."
Another wrote, "The mastermind behind retaining Parag, Jurel, and Hetmyer as middle-order batsmen deserves a middle finger."
Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI):?Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag(c), Dhruv Jurel(w), Shimron Hetmyer, Jofra Archer, Maheesh Theekshana, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Fazalhaq Farooqi
Impact Subs:?Shubham Dubey, Tushar Deshpande, Kunal Singh Rathore, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Kwena Maphaka
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI):?Ryan Rickelton(w), Rohit Sharma, Will Jacks, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Naman Dhir, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah
Impact Subs:?Raj Bawa, Satyanarayana Raju, Robin Minz, Reece Topley, Karn Sharma??
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