The road to the 2025 IPL season is heating up as all ten franchises have unveiled their player retention lists ahead of the highly anticipated auction scheduled for later this year. In an IPL Retention Special aired on JioCinema, teams confirmed the players who will continue representing their franchises next season, as well as some big names who will enter the auction, drawing interest from several teams. Notably, Heinrich Klaasen emerged as the highest earner among the retained players, with Sunrisers Hyderabad offering him a substantial INR 23 crore. Close behind him were Virat Kohli and Nicholas Pooran, with RCB and LSG retaining them at INR 21 crore each.
Here is the complete list of player retained by their franchise, check their name and price list in the table below:
Retained Players Price 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 : INR 55 crore (out of INR 120 crore)RTM Options at Auction : 1 (One uncapped player)
Not Retained Players 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
Retained Players Price Ruturaj Gaikwad ₹18 crore Matheesha Pathirana ₹13 crore Shivam Dube ₹12 crore Ravindra Jadeja ₹18 crore MS Dhoni ₹4 crore
Purse Remaining : INR 55 croreRTM Options at Auction : 1 player
Not Retained Players 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
Retained Players Price Virat Kohli ₹21 crore Rajat Patidar ₹11 crore Yash Dayal ₹5 crore
Purse Remaining : INR 83 croreRTM Options at Auction : 3 players
Not Retained Players 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
Retained Players Price Axar Patel ₹16.5 crore Kuldeep Yadav ₹13.25 crore Tristan Stubbs ₹10 crore Abhishek Porel ₹4 crore
Purse Remaining : INR 73 croreRTM Options at Auction : 2 players
Not Retained Players 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
Retained Players Price 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 croreRTM Options at Auction : None
Not Retained Players 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
Retained Players Price Nicholas Pooran ₹21 crore Ravi Bishnoi ₹11 crore Mayank Yadav ₹11 crore Mohsin Khan ₹4 crore Ayush Badoni ₹4 crore
Purse Remaining : INR 69 croreRTM Options at Auction : 1 player
Not Retained Players 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
Retained Players Price Pat Cummins ₹18 crore Abhishek Sharma ₹14 crore Nitiesh Reddy ₹6 crore Heinrich Klaasen ₹23 crore Travis Head ₹14 crore
Purse Remaining : INR 45 croreRTM Options at Auction : 1 uncapped player
Not Retained Players 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
Retained Players Price 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 croreRTM Options at Auction : 1 player
Not Retained Players David Miller Matthew Wade Wriddhiman Saha Kane Williamson Abhinav Manohar Darshan Nalkande Vijay Shankar Jayant Yadav Noor Ahmad Joshua Little Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore Hardik Pandya Mohammed Shami Shivam Dubey Pradeep Sangwan Yash Dayal Jitesh Sharma Mukesh Choudhary Mukesh Kumar Matthew Short Kuldeep Sen
Rajasthan Royals Retained Players Price 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 45 croreRTM Options at Auction: 0 Player
Not Retained Players Jos Buttler Trent Boult Devdutt Paddikal Joe Root Kunal Singh Rathore Abdul Basith Ravichandran Ashwin Yuzvendra Chahal Donovan Ferreira Akash Vashisth Jason Holder KM Asif KC Cariappa Kuldeep Sen Kuldip Yadav
Punjab Kings Retained Players Price Shashank Singh ₹5.5 crore Prabhsimran Singh ₹4 crore
Purse Remaining: INR 111.5 croreRTM Options at Auction: 4 players
Not Retained Players Liam Livingstone Shikhar Dhawan Harpreet Brar Ashutosh Sharma Arshdeep Singh Rahul Chahar Sam Curran Vaibhav Arora Rishi Dhawan Atharva Taide Nathan Ellis Sikandar Raza Chris Woakes Jonny Bairstow Harshal Patel
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