IPL 2021: Footballer Harry Kane expresses disappointment for not making in the RCB retained players list

IPL 2021: Footballer Harry Kane expresses disappointment for not making in the RCB retained players list
Footballer Harry Kane (left) and Team RCB (right).

Reputed English professional footballer Harry Kane plays as a striker for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and captains the England national team. Kane has pursued football professionally, but his love for cricket is no less. His affinity for cricket espoused when Kane made a humorous remark of not being able to make up to the list of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) retained players.

As RCB posted a sensational video captioned, “Retained Royal Challengers They are back! Introducing the 12 Royal Challengers who will be donning the RCB Red and Gold to #PlayBold again in 2021.#WeAreChallengers #IPLRetention #IPL2021” to show its list of retained players, prolific footballer Kane, in all playful manner, posted RCB’s Tweet on his account to express slight funny lament of not being retained.

His post captioned, “Bit disappointed not to be selected but nothing I can do now. Will still be cheering the boys on” which was then followed by a laughing emoji to deliberate on the light-hearted mood.

Ahead of the IPL 2021 auctions, RCB  left many surprised as they released ten players from the squad, despite making it to the playoffs last season.

A glimpse at RCB’s list of retained and released players:

Retained players: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Yuzvendra Chahal, Devdutt Padikkal, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa, Josh Philippe, Shahbaz Ahmed and Pavan Deshpande.

Released players: Aaron Finch, Chris Morris, Isuru Udana, Moeen Ali, Pawan Negi, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Shivam Dube, Dale Steyn, Parthiv Patel and Umesh Yadav.

Also read: IPL 2021: Thorough list of players retained and released by eight franchises ahead of auction