IPL 2025 Player Retention: CSK await Dhoni decision, BCCI to announce retention rules

IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: GT are expected to retain captain Gill, and it looks like the obvious one. They could retain Miller and Shami for their experience Sudarshan is key to their batting order and Rashid is the other one!

IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Delhi are expected to retain Pant, Fraser-McGurk, Stubbs, Axar and Kuldeep! Pant is key to the franchise, and Fraser-McGurk was a revelation last season. Stubbs' all-round duties are handy. Meanwhile, Kuldeep and Axar complete the Indian trio.

IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Shikhar Dhawan announced his retirement recently and we won't see him in the next IPL! He played in 222 matches, registering 6769 runs, packed with two tons and 51 half-centuries. He has also smacked the highest number of fours in IPL history (768). He is also the first player to hit consecutive tons in the tournament.

IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: We will also see Delhi Capitals without Ricky Ponting as head coach the next season. Ponting has joined PBKS and be leading their dugout. The Aussie is Punjab's third head coach in four seasons.

IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: For CSK star Rayudu said, "Personally I feel retentions have to be a lot more because a franchise invests a lot on player, the core of the team is what makes every team unique in the IPL so me the longer the core remains the culture of the team remains."

"There is a great chance of success. Retentions have to be and there needs be lot of retentions. It can't be one or two. All the important players should be retained," he added.

IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Mumbai Indians are arguably the side with the most India international heavyweights in their side. Former captain Rohit Sharma, current skipper Hardik Pandya, Indian T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav and pace ace Jasprit Bumrah are all players they would be able to retain, in addition to the likes of Tim David.

IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Among the issues raised by franchise owners in the meeting with the BCCI was that the mega auction was too frequent. Among their biggest concern was that franchises are not able to build any kind of continuity.

IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: The other news going around the rumour mill is Rohit Sharma's future with the Mumbai Indians. CSK's transition from Dhoni to Ruturaj Gaikwad couldn't have been smoother and on the other hand, MI's transition couldn't have been any bigger a trainwreck. Rohit has retired from T20Is but it doesn't look like his appetite for IPL has gone down thus far. He was replaced as captain in a rather unceremonious manner last season. Could this be the end of an era for MI?

IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Punjab Kings had recently announced Ricky Ponting as their new head coach and so it is no surprise that they have now reportedly parted ways with Trevor Bayliss, who was the incumbent in that role. According to ESPNCricinfo, they also have parted ways with head of cricket development Sanjay Bangar.

IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Bangladesh great Shakib Al Hasan has retired from T20Is and also confirmed that the upcoming Test against India in Kanpur will also be his last in the longest format of the game. He said that he had already played his last T20I at the 2024 T20 World Cup.

IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: The only question as to whether Dhoni will play or not is entirely down to whether he chooses to play or not. CSK is ready to retain him if they get a go ahead from him and it is obviously in the interests of the league itself that he plays.

IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: There have been murmurs in the streets of CSK sizing up Rishabh Pant as a potential replacement for Dhoni if the iconic former captain decides to not play in the 2025 IPL. However, that seems quite unlikely, regardless of Dhoni's decision, as Delhi Capitals are expected to give their captain Pant a hike ahead of he 2025 auction. Pant's current IPL contract is worth ₹16 crore, but the franchise might offer him a better deal depending on the budget available.

IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: Shikhar Dhawan marks the end of one of the most storied careers in India's white-ball cricket history. Unlike many other retired Indian players though, Dhawan decided to not continue playing in the IPL after retiring from international cricket, stating that he has ended his professional career altogether. The 38-year-old retired in August after having played 34 Tests, 167 ODIs and 68 T20Is for India between 2013 and 2022. The former India opener revealed that he didn't have the "inspiration" left to take the domestic cricket route for a place in the national side and that was the reason why he chose to retire from the game last month. "I didn't want to play domestic cricket, which I started playing at the age of 18 or 19 and I didn't have that inspiration from inside to play that (form of) cricket," Dhawan told PTI.

IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: It is not official yet but it is understood that the IPL 2025 auction could take place in late November.

IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: Teams were keen or not keen on retaining a major chunk of their players based on the kind of seasons they have had. In a recent meeting of IPL officials and franchise owners, opinions were divided on what the auction regulations should be. 2024 winners Kolkata Knight Riders wanted teams to be allowed to retain their core and had put up the radical idea of allowing eight RTMs. Runners-up Sunrisers Hyderabad wanted to retain a lot of their team as well but wanted flexibility with regulations as many of their key assets like Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Heinrich Klaasen are foreigners. Other teams like LSG, keen on starting fresh, are known to have voted for fewer retentions.

IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: The CSK legend was on vacation in the USA with a few close friends. A video showing Dhoni arriving at Ranchi airport has gone viral. CSK fans can hence expect some clarity on whether he is going to play or not next season.

IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: While it was three Indians plus one in 2022, franchises have been allowed to retain five players in past mega auctions. Three players could be retained pre-auction in 2018 and two could be bought back through RTM. In the event of teams retaining fewer than three players, three RTMs were allowed. Similarly, in the 2014 mega auction too, teams could retain as many as five players, but not more than four Indians. No RTM cards were introduced at the time.

IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: In the last mega-auction, teams were allowed to retain only four players. Of these only three could be Indians, with no RTM card permissible. This was to give new entrants Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants a wider pool of players to build their squad.

IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: Among the big questions ahead of this mega-auction is if MS Dhoni will be among the list of players retained by CSK. It is guaranteed that he will be retained if he tells CSK that he intends to continue playing but thus far, it is understood that there has been no such communication between the player and the franchise.

IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: The red-ball season is in full swing in India but in the middle of all that will be the big mega-auction. The BCCI was expected to announce its retention rules last month but it has since been delayed. The board is now expected to announce these rules today. Stay tuned for more updates!