IPL Retention 2025: Full List of Retained and Released Players with Remaining Purse for All Teams

Another riveting season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is fast approaching as fans are waiting with bated breath to watch their favourite stars in action. However, IPL 2025 promises to throw up a lot of surprises as it will be preceded by the mega-auction.

Before the mega-auction, teams retained some of their key players and released others from their setup. After weeks of speculations, teams announced their final list of retained and released players on Thursday, October 31.

The IPL Governing Council has allowed teams to retain as many as six players this time. Notably, this is the highest number of players franchises have been allowed to retain ahead of a mega-auction. The decision was taken after many teams refused to let go of the nucleus that they had built over the past few years.

Some of the top retentions include the likes of Virat Kohli (Royal Challengers Bangalore), Rohit Sharma (Mumbai Indians), Jasprit Bumrah (Mumbai Indians), Rashid Khan (Gujarat Titans), MS Dhoni (Chennai Super Kings), Sanju Samson (Rajasthan Royals), Axar Patel (Delhi Capitals), Nicholas Pooran (Lucknow Super Giants), Heinrich Klaasen (Sunrisers Hyderabad), Sunil Narine (Kolkata Knight Riders) among others.

Kolkata Knight Riders, Lucknow Super Giants, and Delhi Capitals released their captains - Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, and Rishabh Pant, respectively. Yuzvendra Chahal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami and many other experienced Indian cricketers were released by their respective franchises. Punjab Kings retained the least number of players (2) as Shashank Singh and Prabhsimran Singh are set to continue with the franchise.

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Here's the list of retained players, released players and purse remaining for all teams

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Retained Players List:

Rinku Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Released Player List:

Shreyas Iyer, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Jason Roy, Vaibhav Arora, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, KS Bharat, Chetan Sakariya, Mitchell Starc, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Mujeeb-Ur-Rahman, Gus Atkinson, Sakib Hussain

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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Retained Players List:

Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Yash Dayal

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Released Player List:

Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj, Dinesh Karthik, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Manoj Bhandage, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Suyash Prabhudessai, Akash Deep, Reece Topley, Rajan Kumar, Himanshu Sharma, Karn Sharma, Mahipal Lomror, Will Jacks, Cameron Green, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Tom Curran, Lockie Ferguson, Swapnil Singh, Saurav Chauhan, Mayank Dagar

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Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Retained Players List:

Ruturaj Gaikwad, Matheesha Pathirana, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Released Player List:

Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Maheesh Theekshana, Prashant Solanki, Ajinkya Rahane, Simarjit Singh, Moeen Ali, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ajay Manal, Shaik Rasheed, Richard Gleeson, Nishant Sandhu, Aravely Avanish, Mitchell Santner, Daryl Mitchell, Rachin Ravindra, Devon Conway, Mustafizur Rahman, Mukesh Choudhury, Tushar Deshpande, Sameer Rizvi

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Punjab Kings (PBKS) Retained Players List:

Shashank Singh, Prabhsimran Singh

Punjab Kings (PBKS) Released Player List:

Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Kagiso Rabada, Shikhar Dhawan, Rilee Rossouw, Jonny Bairstow, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Nathan Ellis, Rishi Dhawan, Sikandar Raza, Harpreet Singh, Atharva Taide, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Shivam Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Harshal Patel, Chris Woakes, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Tanay Thyagarajan, Prince Choudhary

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Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) Retained Players List:

Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) Released Player List:

KL Rahul, Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Yudhvir Singh, Prerak Mankad, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Quinton de Kock, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Naveen-ul-Haq, Krishnappa Gowtham, Mark Wood, Devdutt Padikkal (Traded), Shivam Mavi, Arshin Kulkarni, M Siddharth, Ashton Turner, David Willey, Mohammed Arshad Khan

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Gujarat Titans (GT) Retained Players List:

Rashid Khan, Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan

Gujarat Titans (GT) Released Player List:

David Miller, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Noor Ahmad, R Sai Kishore, Joshua Little, Mohit Sharma, Azmatullah Omarzai, Umesh Yadav, Sushant Mishra, Kartik Tyagi, Manav Suthar, Spencer Johnson, Robin Minz

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Mumbai Indians (MI) Retained Players List:

Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Varma

Mumbai Indians (MI) Released Player List:

Ishan Kishan, Dewald Brevis, Tim David, Arjun Tendulkar, Kumar Kartikeya, Luke Wood, Akash Madhwal, Vishnu Vinod, Romario Shepherd, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Piyush Chawla, Gerald Coetzee, Shreyas Gopal, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Mohammad Nabi, Shivalik Sharma 

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Rajasthan Royals (RR) Retained Players List:

Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Sandeep Sharma

Rajasthan Royals (RR) Released Player List:

Jos Buttler, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravichandran Ashwin, Navdeep Saini, Tanush Kotian, Donovan Ferreira, Kuldeep Sen, Kunal Singh Rathore, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Abid Mushtaq, Nandre Burger

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Delhi Capitals (DC) Retained Players List:

Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs, Abhishek Porel

Delhi Capitals (DC) Released Player List:

David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Yash Dhull, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Mukesh Kumar, Praveen Dubey, Khaleel Ahmed, Vicky Ostwal, Lalit Yadav, Mitchell Marsh, Harry Brook, Swastik Chikkara, Rasikh Dar Salam, Jhye Richardson, Shai Hope, Ricky Bhui, Kumar Kushagra, Sumit Kumar

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Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) Retained Players List:

Pat Cummins, Abhishek Porel, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen, Travis Head

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) Released Player List:

Aiden Markram, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Abdul Samad, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Agarwal, Anmolpreet Singh, Upendra Yadav, Shahbaz Ahmed, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, Sanvir Singh, T Natarajan, Wanindu Hasaranga, Mayank Markhande, Umran Malik, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Jaydev Unadkat, Akash Singh, Jhatavedh Subramaniam

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Team-wise Purse and RTMs ahead of the IPL 2025 Mega-Auction: