IPL 2025 retentions are announce and there are many surprises as three captains – Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer will enter into IPL auction pool after they were not retain by Delhi Capitals, Lucknow Super Giants and defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders respectively.
Mumbai Indians kept their core by keeping all four of their players Suryakumar Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya.
Punjab Kings retain just 2 players while KKR and Sunrisers Hyderabad retain six cricketers.
As IPL 2025 retention saw the franchises breaking banks for certain players.
The likes of Virat Kohli and Henrich Klaasen got the most out of it.
Virat Kohli was retain for Rs 21 crore by Royal Challengers Bengaluru but his record of fetching highest retention amount in IPL history was broken by Heinrich Klaasen.
Heinrich Klaasen was retain by SunRisers Hyderabad for a massive sum of Rs 23 crore.
He became the costiest player ever retain in IPL.
As Before this, the record was kept by Virat Kohli with a retention amount of Rs 17 crore.
Players with Highest Retention Amount ahead of IPL 2025
- Heinrich Klaasen (SRH) – Rs 23 crore
- Virat Kohli (RCB) – Rs 21 crore
- Nicholas Pooran (LSG): Rs 21 crore
- Pat Cummins (SRH), Sanju Samson (RR), Yashasvi Jaiswal (RR), Rashid Khan (GT), Jasprit Bumrah (MI), Ruturaj Gaikwad (CSK), Ravindra Jadeja (CSK): Rs 18 crore each
Punjab Kings retain only two players and they are the franchise who paid the lowest amount for their first pick.
PBKS retain Shashank Singh for Rs 5.5 crore and Prabhsimran Singh for Rs 4 crore.
While KKR retain Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, and Varun Chakravarthy and their first-choice retention Rinku Singh was pick for Rs 13 crore.
Each franchise carry a combine purse of Rs 120 crore for retention and the mega auction.
A team could have made a maximum of six retentions with the Right To Match (RTM) card option include in it.
A team also had the option to release all of their players and enter the mega auction with six RTM cards, enabling them an option to buy back players at an unrestricted amount.
IPL 2025 Retentions: Full List Of Retained Players and Price of All Franchises | 2YoDo TV
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Full List Of Retained Players, Price, Remaining Purses of All Franchises
Mumbai Indians
- Jasprit Bumrah (INR 18 crore),
- Suryakumar Yadav (INR 16.35 crore),
- Hardik Pandya (INR 16.35 crore),
- Rohit Sharma (INR 16.30 crore),
- Tilak Varma (INR 8 crore)
- Purse remaining for auction: INR 45 crore (out of INR 120 crore)
- Right-to-match (RTM): 1
- Players eligible for RTM: One uncapped player
- Big players not retained: Ishan Kishan, Tim David
IPL 2025 Retention | Mumbai Indians
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With these five capped players retained, MI can use their one RTM option only on an uncapped player at the auction 🔵
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Sunrisers Hyderabad
- Heinrich Klaasen (INR 23 crore),
- Pat Cummins (INR 18 crore),
- Abhishek Sharma (INR 14 crore),
- Travis Head (INR 14 crore),
- Nitish Kumar Reddy (INR 6 crore)
- Purse remaining for auction: INR 45 crore (out of INR 120 crore)
- Right-to-match (RTM) options at auction: 1
- Players eligible for RTM: Only one uncapped player
- Big players not retained: Washington Sundar, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar
IPL 2025 Retention | Sunrisers Hyderabad
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The high-flying foreigners are coming back to SRH 🔥
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Lucknow Super Giants
- Nicholas Pooran (INR 21 crore),
- Ravi Bishnoi (INR 11 crore),
- Mayank Yadav (INR 11 crore),
- Mohsin Khan (INR 4 crore),
- Ayush Badoni (INR 4 crore)
- Purse remaining for auction: INR 69 crore (out of INR 120 crore)
- Right-to-match (RTM) options at auction: 1
- Players eligible for RTM: One capped player
- Big players not retained: KL Rahul, Marcus Stoinis, Quinton de Kock, Krunal Pandya
IPL 2025 Retention | Lucknow Super Giants
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💰 Nicholas Pooran gets a big payday
❌ Captain KL Rahul is not retained
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Punjab Kings
- Shashank Singh (INR 5.5 crore),
- Prabhsimran Singh (INR 4 crore)
- Purse remaining for auction: INR 110.5 crore (out of INR 120 crore)
- Right-to-match (RTM) options at auction: 4
- Players eligible for RTM: Four capped players
- Big players not retained: Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Sam Curran, Jonny Bairstow, Liam Livingstone, Kagiso Rabada
IPL 2025 Retention | Punjab Kings
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PBKS, now with Ricky Ponting as head coach, will have the largest purse at the upcoming mega auction 💰
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Rajasthan Royals
- Sanju Samson (INR 18 crore),
- Yashasvi Jaiswal (INR 18 crore),
- Riyan Parag (INR 14 crore),
- Dhruv Jurel (INR 14 crore),
- Shimron Hetmyer (INR 11 crore),
- Sandeep Sharma (INR 4 crore)
- Purse remaining for auction: INR 41 crore (out of INR 120 crore)
- Right-to-match (RTM) options at auction: None
- Players eligible for RTM: None
- Big players not retained: Yuzvendra Chahal, Jos Buttler, R Ashwin
IPL 2025 Retention | Rajasthan Royals
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Dhruv Jurel goes from 20 lakhs to 14 crores
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Chennai Super Kings
- Ruturaj Gaikwad (INR 18 crore),
- Matheesha Pathirana (INR 13 crore),
- Shivam Dube (INR 12 crore),
- Ravindra Jadeja (INR 18 crore),
- MS Dhoni (INR 4 crore)
- Purse remaining for auction: INR 55 crore (out of INR 120 crore)
- Right-to-match (RTM) options at auction: 1
- Players eligible for RTM: One capped or uncapped player
- Big players not retained: Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Mahesh Theekshana, Tushar Deshpande
IPL 2025 Retention | Chennai Super Kings
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💰 Gaikwad and Jadeja are CSK's top retentions
❌ No Conway and Chahar
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Royal Challengers Bengaluru
- Virat Kohli (INR 21 crore),
- Rajat Patidar (INR 11 crore),
- Yash Dayal (INR 5 crore)
- Purse remaining for auction: INR 83 crore (out of INR 120 crore)
- Right-to-match (RTM) options at auction: 3
- Players eligible for RTM: One uncapped player and two capped players, or three capped players
- Big players not retained: Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj, Faf du Plessis, Cameron Green
IPL 2025 Retention | Royal Challengers Bengaluru
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✅ Kohli
❌ Siraj
❌ Maxwell
❌ Faf
❌ Green
Some big players not retained by RCB 👀
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Kolkata Knight Riders
- Rinku Singh (INR 13 crore),
- Varun Chakravarthy (INR 12 crore),
- Sunil Narine (INR 12 crore),
- Andre Russell (INR 12 crore),
- Harshit Rana (INR 4 crore),
- Ramandeep Singh (INR 4 crore)
- Purse remaining for auction: INR 51 crore (out of INR 120 crore)
- Right-to-match (RTM) options at auction: None
- Players eligible for RTM: None
- Big players not retained: Shreyas Iyer, Mitchell Starc, Phil Salt, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana
IPL 2025 Retention | Kolkata Knight Riders
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Title-winning captain Shreyas Iyer is not retained by KKR
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Delhi Capitals
- Axar Patel (INR 16.50 crore),
- Kuldeep Yadav (INR 13.25 crore),
- Tristan Stubbs (INR 10 crore),
- Abhishek Porel (INR 4 crore)
- Purse remaining for auction: INR 73 crore (out of INR 120 crore)
- Right-to-match (RTM) options at auction: 2
- Players eligible for RTM: One uncapped player and one capped player, or two capped players
- Big players not retained: Rishabh Pant, David Warner, Anrich Nortje
IPL 2025 Retention | Delhi Capitals
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Axar Patel is DC's top retention as Rishabh Pant goes into the auction 👀
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Gujarat Titans
- Rashid Khan (INR 18 crore),
- Shubman Gill (INR 16.50 crore),
- Sai Sudharsan (INR 8.50 crore),
- Rahul Tewatia (INR 4 crore),
- Shahrukh Khan (INR 4 crore)
- Purse remaining for auction: INR 69 crore (out of INR 120 crore)
- Right-to-match (RTM) options at auction: One
- Players eligible for RTM: One capped player
- Big players not retained: Mohammed Shami, David Miller
IPL 2025 Retention | Gujarat Titans
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Rashid Khan is GT's top retention
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