IPL 2025 Auction: The IPL Bowling Council has announced the Retention Associated Classic. IPL players will be able to retain 5 of their players. Apart from this, there will also be an option of Rest of Two Matches (RTM).
IPL 2025: Probable retention list of each team ahead of the auction
IPL teams will be able to retain a player by exercising the Right to Match during the auction, but the question in the minds of cricket fans is which players will the IPL teams retain? Today we will look at the possible 6 retentions from all 10 teams including Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore.
The first three retentions will see Rs 18 crore, Rs 14 crore and Rs 11 crore deducted from the auction amount - which is set at Rs 120 crore for a team. The fourth and fifth retentions will see Rs 18 crore and Rs 14 crore deducted respectively.
If a team retains five players, the auction purse will take a massive cut of Rs 75 crore. If a franchise decides to retain the sixth player, who will be an uncapped player, an additional Rs 4 crore will be deducted from its auction purse.
Possible retention of all IPL teams-
- Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dube, Rachin Ravindra, Mathisha Pathirana, MS Dhoni.
- Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Anshul Kamboj*.
- Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, Mohammed Siraj, Will Jacks, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Yash Dayal*.
- Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Sandeep Sharma.
- Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Phil Salt, Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana*.
- Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill, Rashid Khan, David Miller, Sai Sudarshan, Mohammed Shami, Rahul Tewatia*.
- Lucknow Super Giants: KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock, Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Marcus Stoinis, Mayank Yadav*.
- Delhi Capitals: Rishabh Pant, Mitchell Marsh, Harry Brook, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Axar Patel, Abhishek Porel*.
- Punjab Kings: Matthew Short, Sam Curran, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Liam Livingstone, Ashutosh Sharma*.
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins, Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Heinrich Klaasen, T. Natarajan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*