Who Are The Retained And Non-Retained Players In IPL 2025?

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The fight for the IPL Meta auction already started on the day of the great Indian festival, Diwali. We saw some fireworks in the different franchises with their star players, like Rishabh Pant, not being retained by the DC because he had some demands that the member of Delhi Capital did not accept, which made him for the first time in the auction. There are many more star players who are going to be in the Mega Auction, which notably will make it one of the best Indian Premier League Auctions.

Retained Players List By IPL Teams

We are going to list down all the retained players by all the 10 IPL teams alongside the price the team paid for them. We will also mention the players who were not retained by the team.

1. Rajasthan Royals Retained And Released Players

Rajasthan Royals used all its retained player options, as they retained 6 players, but surprisingly, many players were not on their retained players list.

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

Right To Match (RTM) Options at Auction: None

Purse remaining: INR 41 crore.

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

Jos Buttler and Yuzvendra are some surprising players whom Rajasthan did not pick even after Chahal, who has been great for them since he joined the team. The reason is Buttler’s injury issues over the past two years.

2. Gujarat Titans Retained And Released Players

Gujarat did not use its RTM option and will go in the meta auction with one player. They need to rebuild the team once again, as they missed the chance to be in the finals last time.

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

Right To Match (RTM) Options at Auction: One Player

Purse remaining: INR 69 crore.

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.

3. Punjab Kings Titans Retained And Released Players

The team that will go with the highest purse and RTM options is Punjab Kings, who will once again go for changing their whole team, which they keep on doing over every auction. That is one of the reasons why they failed to win the tournament.

2 Players Retained:

Shashank Singh: ₹5.5 crore

Prabhsimran Singh: ₹4 crore

Right To Match (RTM) Options at Auction: Four Players

Purse remaining: INR 110.5 crore

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.

4. Royal Challengers Bangalore Retained And Released Players

Royal Challengers Bangalore had two obvious choices for retention. First was their main player, Virat Kohli, who will now be in the team for the 18th season, and the other player was Rajat Patidar, who had an amazing IPL last season.

3 Players Retained:

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

Right To Match (RTM) Options at Auction: Three Players

Purse remaining: INR 83 crore

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. Mumbai Indians Retained And Released Players

Mumbai Indians kept their core players intact and retained all Indian main players alongside Tilak Varma so they could build the team around them.

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

Right To Match (RTM) Options at Auction: One Player

Purse remaining: INR 55 crore

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.

6. Chennai Super Kings Retained And Released Players

For all the Chennai fans the only things they wanted to see that will Dhoni going to play another cameo season with team or not but he once again in the team as Chennai retain him for just 4 Cr because he is not considered as the uncapped player.

5 Players Retained:

Ruturaj Gaikwad: ₹18 crore

Matheesha Pathirana: ₹13 crore

Shivam Dube: ₹12 crore

Ravindra Jadeja: ₹18 crore

MS Dhoni: ₹4 crore

Right To Match (RTM) Options at Auction: One Player

Purse remaining: INR 55 crore

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.

7. Delhi Capitals Retained And Released Players

One of the most shocking decision came from the Delhi camp when they decided not to accept Rishabh Pant terms and did not retained him. It is going to be huge fight for the Rishabh Pant in the Meta Auction and from the insides there is news that Dhoni wants Pant in their team.

4 Players Retained:

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

Right To Match (RTM) Options at Auction: Two Players

Purse remaining: INR 73 crore

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.

8. Lucknow Super Giants Retained And Released Players

Kl Rahul left the Lucknow Super Giants after the class between him and the owner happened in the last IPL. He is also going to be one of the main players to be in the Mega Auction.

5 Players Retained:

Nicholas Pooran: ₹21 crore

Ravi Bishnoi: ₹11 crore

Mayank Yadav: ₹11 crore

Mohsin Khan: ₹4 crore

Ayush Badoni: ₹4 crore

Right To Match (RTM) Options at Auction: One Player

Purse remaining: INR 73 crore

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.

9. Sunrisers Hyderabad Retained And Released Players

The SRH army paid most amount of money on retaining the players and Heinrich Klaasen is the most expensive retained player with 23 crore that is quite costly but he is right now one of the most complete T20I players in the world.

5 Players Retained:

Pat Cummins: ₹18 crore

Abhishek Sharma: ₹14 crore

Nitiesh Reddy: ₹6 crore

Heinrich Klaasen: ₹23 crore

Travis Head: ₹14 crore

Right To Match (RTM) Options at Auction: One Player

Purse remaining: INR 45 crore

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.

10. Kolkata Knight Riders Retained And Released Players

Kolkata Knght Riders used their all retention option and also the RTM but it was smart choices they made but only concern will be that picking up Harshit Rana over Venkatesh Iyer who player great innings for the KKR last season might going to cost them.

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

Right To Match (RTM) Options at Auction: None

Purse remaining: INR 51 crore

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