IPL 2025: List Of Retained And Released Players By Each Team!

List Of Retained And Released Players

The journey of ten teams towards the 2025’s Indian Premier League season has begun recently as teams declared the players they want to retain before the auction that will happen before the end of the year.

During the IPL Retention, the team declared which players would wear the jerseys next year during the tournament. But also, who’s hitting the auction block – these are big names that teams will eye.

Heinrich Klaasen was the highest paid cricketer in the retention lists and Sunrisers Hyderabad paid as much as 23 crore to retain him. Nicholas Pooran ranked right behind, with RCB and LSG offering them INR 21 crore each. However, other market giants will be up for new homes in the auction as well. These included Delhi franchise hero Rishabh Pant, who was officially declared released in a big surprise, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer the KKR title-winning captain, along with a premium Indian fast bowler Arshdeep Singh. They are accompanied by some big overseas players like Jos Buttler and Glenn Maxwell as well.

Punjab Kings retained the least number of players, and Ricky Ponting will be the most ahead of this year’s auction with 110.5 cr. RCB will also have 83 crore in their hand with three retention players, while DC will have 73 cr under new leadership. KKR and RR will both go into the auction with six of the permitted players but the Jaipur team will only have 41 cr with which to make its work with no RTM rights possible either.

Plenty of talent, domestic and international, will enter the auction when it happens later this year, and with teams at different levels of readiness in terms of their retentions, it promises to be full of fireworks.

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
• RTM options at auction: 1
• Players eligible for RTM: One uncapped player

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: INR 55 crore
• RTM options at auction: One player 

Royal Challengers Bangalore 3 players retained:

• Virat Kohli: ₹21 crore
• Rajat Patidar: ₹11 crore
• Yash Dayal: ₹5 crore
• Purse remaining: INR 83 crore
• RTM options at auction: Three players

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: INR 73 crore 
• RTM options at auction: Two players

 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: INR 51 crore
• RTM options at auction: None

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: INR 69 crore
• RTM options at auctions: One player

Sunrisers Hyderabad 5 players retained:

• Pat Cummins: ₹18 crore
• Abhishek Sharma: ₹14 crore
• Nitiesh Reddy: ₹6 crore
• Heinrich Klaasen: ₹23 crore
• Travis Head: ₹14 crore
• Purse remaining: INR 45 crore
• RTM options at auction: One uncapped player

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: INR 69 crore
• RTM options at auction: One player

Punjab Kings 2 players retained:

• Shashank Singh: ₹5.5 crore
• Prabhsimran Singh: ₹4 crore
• Purse remaining: INR 110.5 crore
• RTM options at auction: Four players

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: INR 41 crore
• RTM options at auction: None