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
| Team | Players Retained | Retention Price (INR) |
| Mumbai Indians | Jasprit Bumrah | 18 crore |
| Suryakumar Yadav | 16.35 crore | |
| Hardik Pandya | 16.35 crore | |
| Rohit Sharma | 16.30 crore | |
| Tilak Varma | 8 crore | |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | Heinrich Klaasen | 23 crore |
| Pat Cummins | 18 crore | |
| Abhishek Sharma | 14 crore | |
| Travis Head | 14 crore | |
| Nitish Kumar Reddy | 6 crore | |
| Chennai Super Kings | Ruturaj Gaikwad | 18 crore |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 18 crore | |
| Matheesha Pathirana | 13 crore | |
| Shivam Dube | 12 crore | |
| MS Dhoni | 4 crore | |
| Royal Challengers Bengaluru | Virat Kohli | 21 crore |
| Rajat Patidar | 11 crore | |
| Yash Dayal | 5 crore | |
| Delhi Capitals | Axar Patel | 16.50 crore |
| Kuldeep Yadav | 13.25 crore | |
| Tristan Stubbs | 10 crore | |
| Abishek Porel | 4 crore | |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | Rinku Singh | 13 crore |
| Varun Chakravarthy | 12 crore | |
| Sunil Narine | 12 crore | |
| Andre Russell | 12 crore | |
| Harshit Rana | 4 crore | |
| Ramandeep Singh | 4 crore | |
| Rajasthan Royals | Sanju Samson | 18 crore |
| Yashasvi Jaiswal | 18 crore | |
| Riyan Parag | 14 crore | |
| Dhruv Jurel | 14 crore | |
| Shimron Hetmyer | 11 crore | |
| Sandeep Sharma | 4 crore | |
| Gujarat Titans | Rashid Khan | 18 crore |
| Shubman Gill | 16.50 crore | |
| Sai Sudharsan | 8.50 crore | |
| Rahul Tewatia | 4 crore | |
| Shahrukh Khan | 4 crore | |
| Lucknow Super Giants | Nicholas Pooran | 21 crore |
| Ravi Bishnoi | 11 crore | |
| Mayank Yadav | 11 crore | |
| Mohsin Khan | 4 crore | |
| Ayush Badoni | 4 crore | |
| Punjab Kings | Shashank Singh | 5.5 crore |
| Prabhsimran Singh | 4 crore |
IPL Released players list
| Team | Released Players |
| CSK | Ajay 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 Capitals | Anrich 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 Titans | BR 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 Riders | Shreyas 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 Giants | KL 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 Indians | Dewald 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 Kings | Shikhar 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 Bengaluru | Faf 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 Royals | Jos 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 Hyderabad | Abdul 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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