IPL 2025 Retentions: How Teams Stack Up For the IPL Mega Auction

All 10 IPL franchises have revealed their player retentions for the 2025 season, and there are some surprising choices and unexpected releases that have already set the stage for an exciting auction. If you’re not caught up on who’s in and who’s out, no need to worry—we’ve got the complete rundown of every player retained and released by each franchise right here.

In the IPL, retention allows teams to keep a select number of core players before each auction. This rule enables franchises to build stable teams by retaining key players. For IPL 2024, teams have retained big names like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and MS Dhoni while releasing some players for new signings and reshuffles.​

The Right to Match (RTM) rule, though not used in every season, allows teams to match the highest bid for a released player during the auction, ensuring they can reclaim their former players if desired. However, RTM has been reserved for certain auction years and may not be available for the upcoming mini-auctions.

1. Kolkata Knight Riders

6 players retained:  

• Rinku Singh: ₹13 crore  
• Varun Chakaravarthy: ₹12 crore  
• Sunil Narine: ₹12 crore  
• Andre Russell: ₹12 crore  
• Harshit Rana: ₹4 crore  
• Ramandeep Singh: ₹4 crore 

Purse remaining for auction: INR 51 crore  

RTM options at auction: None 

Full list of players not retained: Shreyas Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Phil Salt, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, Vaibhav Arora, KS Bharat, Chetan Sakariya, Mitchell Starc, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Allah Ghazanfar, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain, Jason Roy, Gus Atkinson, Mujeeb Ur Rahman. 

2. Sunrisers Hyderabad 

5 players retained:  

• Pat Cummins: ₹18 crore  
• Abhishek Sharma: ₹14 crore  
• Nitish Kumar Reddy: ₹6 crore  
• Heinrich Klaasen: ₹23 crore  
• Travis Head: ₹14 crore  

Purse remaining for auction: INR 45 crore  

RTM options at auction: One uncapped player  

Full list of players not retained: Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Marco Jansen, Rahul Tripathi, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Sanvir Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Agarwal, T. Natarajan, Anmolpreet Singh, Mayank Markande, Upendra Singh Yadav, Umran Malik, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Shahbaz Ahmed, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, Jaydev Unadkat, Akash Singh, Jhathavedh Subramanyan, Wanindu Hasaranga. 

3. Rajasthan Royals 

6 players retained:  

• Sanju Samson: ₹18 crore  
• Yashasvi Jaiswal: ₹18 crore  
• Riyan Parag: ₹14 crore  
• Dhruv Jurel: ₹14 crore  
• Shimron Hetmyer: ₹11 crore  
• Sandeep Sharma: ₹4 crore  

Purse remaining for auction: INR 41 crore  

RTM options at auction: None  

Full list of players not retained: Jos Buttler, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Avesh Khan, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Abid Mushtaq, Nandre Burger, Tanush Kotian, Keshav Maharaj, Prasidh Krishna, Adam Zampa. 

4. Royal Challengers Bangalore 

3 players retained:  

• Virat Kohli: ₹21 crore  
• Rajat Patidar: ₹11 crore  
• Yash Dayal: ₹5 crore  

Purse remaining for auction: INR 83 crore  

RTM options at auction: Three players  

Full list of players not retained: Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, Anuj Rawat, Suyash Prabhudessai, Will Jacks, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Mayank Dagar, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar, Cameron Green, Alzarri Joseph, Tom Curran, Lockie Ferguson, Swapnil Singh, Saurav Chauhan. 

5. Lucknow Super Giants 

5 players retained:  

• Nicholas Pooran: ₹21 crore  
• Ravi Bishnoi: ₹11 crore  
• Mayank Yadav: ₹11 crore  
• Mohsin Khan: ₹4 crore  
• Ayush Badoni: ₹4 crore  

Purse remaining for auction: INR 69 crore  

RTM options at auctions: One player  

Full list of players not retained: KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Devdutt Padikkal, Naveen-ul-Haq, Krunal Pandya, Yudhvir Singh, Prerak Mankad, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Shamar Joseph, K. Gowtham, Arshin Kulkarni, M. Siddharth, Ashton Turner, Matt Henry, Mohd. Arshad Khan, Mark Wood, David Willey, Shivam Mavi. 

6. Delhi Capitals 

4 players retained:  

• Axar Patel: ₹16.5 crore  
• Kuldeep Yadav: ₹13.25 crore  
• Tristan Stubbs: ₹10 crore  
• Abhishek Porel: ₹4 crore  

Purse remaining for auction: INR 73 crore  

RTM options at auction: Two players  

Full list of players not retained: Rishabh Pant, Pravin Dubey, David Warner, Vicky Ostwal, Prithvi Shaw, Anrich Nortje, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Lalit Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed, Mitchell Marsh, Ishant Sharma, Yash Dhull, Mukesh Kumar, Ricky Bhui, Kumar Kushagra, Gulbadin Naib, Rasikh Dar, Jhye Richardson, Sumit Kumar, Shai Hope, Swastik Chhikara, Lizaad Williams, Harry Brook, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Marsh. 

7. Chennai Super Kings 

5 players retained:  

• Ruturaj Gaikwad: ₹18 crore  
• Matheesha Pathirana: ₹13 crore  
• Shivam Dube: ₹12 crore  
• Ravindra Jadeja: ₹18 crore  
• MS Dhoni: ₹4 crore  

Purse remaining for auction: INR 55 crore  

RTM options at auction: One player 

Full list of players not retained: Moeen Ali, Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ajay Mandal, Mukesh Choudhary, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Mitchell Santner, Simarjeet Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana, Rachin Ravindra, Shardul Thakur, Daryl Mitchell, Sameer Rizvi, Mustafizur Rahman, Richard Gleeson, Avanish Rao Aravelly, Devon Conway. 

8. Punjab Kings 

2 players retained:  

• Shashank Singh: ₹5.5 crore  
• Prabhsimran Singh: ₹4 crore  

Purse remaining for auction: INR 110.5 crore  

RTM options at auction: Four players  

Full list of players not retained: Arshdeep Singh, Matthew Short, Jitesh Sharma, Sikandar Raza, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Nathan Ellis, Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa, Shivam Singh, Harshal Patel, Chris Woakes, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Tanay Thyagarajann, Prince Choudhary, Rilee Rossouw. 

9. Gujarat Titans 

5 players retained:  

• Rashid Khan: ₹18 crore  
• Shubman Gill: ₹16.5 crore  
• Sai Sudharsan: ₹8.5 crore  
• Rahul Tewatia: ₹4 crore  
• Shahrukh Khan: ₹4 crore  

Purse remaining for auction: INR 69 crore  

RTM options at auction: One player  

Full list of players not retained: David Miller, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Noor Ahmad, Sai Kishore, Joshua Little, Mohit Sharma, Azmatullah Omarzai, Umesh Yadav, Gurnoor Brar, Kartik Tyagi, Manav Suthar, Spencer Johnson, Sandeep Warrier, BR Sharath, Mohammed Shami, Robin Minz, Sushant Mishra. 

10. Mumbai Indians 

5 players retained:  

• Jasprit Bumrah: ₹18 crore  
• Suryakumar Yadav: ₹16.35 crore  
• Hardik Pandya: ₹16:35 crore  
• Rohit Sharma: ₹16:30 crore  
• Tilak Varma: ₹8 crore  

Purse remaining for auction: INR 55 crore  

Players eligible for RTM: One uncapped player  

Full list of players not retained: Dewald Brevis, Ishan Kishan, Tim David, Harvik Desai, Arjun Tendulkar, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Luke Wood, Romario Shepherd, Gerald Coetzee, Shreyas Gopal, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Mohammad Nabi, Shivalik Sharma, Kwena Maphaka.