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IPL 2025: List of players retained and released by each team ahead of mega auction

IPL 2025: List of players retained and released by each team ahead of mega auction

With the retention list now out, all eyes are on the mega auction. Check the full list of players retained and released by each franchise ahead of the IPL mega auction.

Not long ago, IPL teams revealed their list of retained players ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction, and just like in the past, Indian Premier League retention came with plenty of surprises. We’ve seen big names like KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, and Shreyas Iyer released by their respective franchises, while CSK cleverly retained MS Dhoni using the uncapped player rule.

In total, teams have retained 46 players, with massive investments by franchises to keep their core groups. However, as mentioned, there are a few surprises; as PBKS shocked many by releasing core players like Jonny Bairstow and Liam Livingstone, retaining only two uncapped players. With INR 110.5 crore in hand, PBKS now has a heavy purse going into the mega auction.

Looking at the retention numbers, Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals went for full retentions with six players each. Chennai Super Kings, Gujarat Titans, Lucknow Super Giants, Mumbai Indians, and Sunrisers Hyderabad have each retained five players, while Delhi Capitals, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, and Punjab Kings (PBKS) retained four, three, and two players, respectively.

See the full list of players retained and released by each team ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction.

IPL 2025 retention list

TeamPlayers RetainedRetention Price (INR)
Mumbai IndiansJasprit Bumrah18 crore
Suryakumar Yadav16.35 crore
Hardik Pandya16.35 crore
Rohit Sharma16.30 crore
Tilak Varma8 crore
Sunrisers HyderabadHeinrich Klaasen23 crore
Pat Cummins18 crore
Abhishek Sharma14 crore
Travis Head14 crore
Nitish Kumar Reddy6 crore
Chennai Super KingsRuturaj Gaikwad18 crore
Ravindra Jadeja18 crore
Matheesha Pathirana13 crore
Shivam Dube12 crore
MS Dhoni4 crore
Royal Challengers BengaluruVirat Kohli21 crore
Rajat Patidar11 crore
Yash Dayal5 crore
Delhi CapitalsAxar Patel16.50 crore
Kuldeep Yadav13.25 crore
Tristan Stubbs10 crore
Abishek Porel4 crore
Kolkata Knight RidersRinku Singh13 crore
Varun Chakravarthy12 crore
Sunil Narine12 crore
Andre Russell12 crore
Harshit Rana4 crore
Ramandeep Singh4 crore
Rajasthan RoyalsSanju Samson18 crore
Yashasvi Jaiswal18 crore
Riyan Parag14 crore
Dhruv Jurel14 crore
Shimron Hetmyer11 crore
Sandeep Sharma4 crore
Gujarat TitansRashid Khan18 crore
Shubman Gill16.50 crore
Sai Sudharsan8.50 crore
Rahul Tewatia4 crore
Shahrukh Khan4 crore
Lucknow Super GiantsNicholas Pooran21 crore
Ravi Bishnoi11 crore
Mayank Yadav11 crore
Mohsin Khan4 crore
Ayush Badoni4 crore
Punjab KingsShashank Singh5.5 crore
Prabhsimran Singh4 crore

IPL Released players list

TeamReleased Players
CSKAjay Mandal, Ajinkya Rahane, Deepak Chahar, Devon Conway*, Maheesh Theekshana*, Mitchell Santner*, Moeen Ali*, Mukesh Choudhary, Nishant Sindhu, Prashant Solanki, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Shaik Rasheed, Simarjeet Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Rachin Ravindra*, Shardul Thakur, Daryl Mitchell*, Sameer Rizvi, Mustafizur Rahman*, Avanish Rao Aravelly
Delhi CapitalsAnrich Nortje*, David Warner* (retired), Ishant Sharma, Lalit Yadav, Mitchell Marsh*, Mukesh Kumar, Pravin Dubey, Prithvi Shaw, Rishabh Pant, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Vicky Ostwal, Yash Dhull, Harry Brook*, Ricky Bhui, Kumar Kushagra, Rasikh Dar, Jhye Richardson*, Sumit Kumar, Shai Hope*, Swastik Chhikara, Jake Fraser-McGurk*
Gujarat TitansBR Sharath, Abhinav Manohar, Sandeep Warrier, Gurnoor Brar, Darshan Nalkande, David Miller*, Jayant Yadav, Joshua Little*, Kane Williamson*, Matthew Wade*, Mohammad Shami, Mohit Sharma, Noor Ahmad*, Sai Kishore, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha, Azmatullah Omarzai*, Umesh Yadav, Sushant Mishra, Kartik Tyagi, Manav Suthar, Spencer Johnson*
Kolkata Knight RidersShreyas Iyer, Rahmanullah Gurbaz*, Nitish Rana, Sherfane Rutherford*, Phil Salt*, KS Bharat, Manish Pandey, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, Suyash Sharma, Allah Ghazanfar*, Dushmantha Chameera*, Sakib Hussain, Vaibhav Arora, Mitchell Starc*, Chetan Sakariya
Lucknow Super GiantsKL Rahul, Devdutt Padikkal, Quinton de Kock*, Ashton Turner*, Deepak Hooda, Krishnappa Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kyle Mayers*, Marcus Stoinis*, Mohd. Arshad Khan, Prerak Mankad, Yudhvir Singh, Arshin Kulkarni, David Willey*, Shivam Mavi, Shamar Joseph*, Matt Henry*, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Naveen ul Haq*, M Siddharth
Mumbai IndiansDewald Brevis*, Ishan Kishan, Harvik Desai, Tim David*, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Mohammad Nabi*, Romario Shepherd*, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Gerald Coetzee*, Anshul Kamboj, Naman Dhir, Shivalik Sharma
Punjab KingsShikhar Dhawan (retired), Jitesh Sharma, Jonny Bairstow*, Liam Livingstone*, Harpreet Bhatia, Rilee Rossouw*, Chris Woakes*, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Tanay Thyagarajan, Atharva Taide, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran*, Sikandar Raza*, Shivam Singh, Prince Choudhary, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada*, Nathan Ellis*, Rahul Chahar, Vidwath Kaverappa, Harshal Patel
Royal Challengers BengaluruFaf du Plessis*, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik (retired), Suyash S Prabhudessai, Will Jacks*, Saurav Chauhan, Glenn Maxwell*, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Cameron Green*, Swapnil Singh, Mayank Dagar, Manoj Bhandage, Akash Deep, Alzarri Joseph*, Lockie Ferguson*, Mohammed Siraj, Tom Curran*, Reece Topley*, Himanshu Sharma, Vyshak Vijay Kumar, Rajan Kumar
Rajasthan RoyalsJos Buttler*, Kunal Rathore, Donovan Ferreira*, Rovman Powell*, Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore*, Ravichandran Ashwin, Tanush Kotian, Abid Mushtaq, Avesh Khan, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Keshav Maharaj*, Trent Boult*, Yuzvendra Chahal, Nandre Burger*
Sunrisers HyderabadAbdul Samad, Aiden Markram*, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips*, Mayank Agarwal, Anmolpreet Singh, Upendra Singh Yadav, Marco Jansen*, Washington Sundar, Sanvir Singh, Wanindu Hasaranga*, Akash Singh, Shahbaz Ahamad, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi*, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan, Umran Malik, Mayank Markande, Jhathavedh Subramanyan, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth
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