IPL 2025 Retention Live Updates: DC omit Rishabh Pant, KKR release Shreyas Iyer, MS Dhoni retained as uncapped player

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: The other big rumour has finally been confirmed. Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad is their highest retention at ₹18 crore, after which comes Sri Lankan pace sensation Matheesha Pathirana at ₹13 crore. Shivam Dube is next at ₹12 crore, Ravindra Jadeja after that at ₹18 crore and Dhoni at ₹4 crore.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: It's official now. Axar Patel is the highest retention for them at ₹16.5 crore, Kuldeep Yadav is next at ₹14.25 crore, Tristan Stubbs at ₹10 crore and Abhishek Porel is the uncapped retention at ₹4 crore.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: All right, take out those calculators and type down those names in your phones. The retention lists are being made public right now on the broadcast.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: That is what the five-time champions are saying for now. It's all decided, the only thing left is to make it all public. And judging by the way they are behaving, it seems to be pretty safe now to assume that MS Dhoni is playing next season.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: So, the teams were supposed to submit their lists to the IPL governing council by 5pm. That has been done and now those lists will be made public at 5.30pm IST.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: He led KKR to the IPL title last season but it looks like the champions are going to let him go. There are reports of DC being keen to get him back in their squad. Another possibility is of him reuniting with Ricky Ponting at PBKS.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: The new set of rumours in the world of social media is about MI changing their captain. Hardik Pandya did not have a good time in that post, to say the least. But it would be a surprise if they take that role away from him now, considering the extent to which he redeemed himself in the T20 World Cup and other matches after the 2024 IPL. But the rumours are that either Suryakumar Yadav, India's current T20I captain, could be given that role. Or, Rohit Sharma could be sensationally made captain again.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: No he is not talking about RCB. "Proteas making a statement! Great win lads never easy over there. Impressive performance," he said. In the other cricketing universe where actual matches are being played, South Africa just thrashed Bangladesh by an innings and 273 runs.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Whoa hold your horses. It had been reported earlier that KKR could let go of Andre Russell and Shreyas Iyer. Well nothing new has come about Iyer but Cricbuzz reports that Russell is set to be retained by the champions.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: MI have arguably the biggest population of big name India players and it looks like they will be retaining all of them. Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah and Tilak Varma are all set to be retained as capped players. Naman Dhir is the uncapped player that they are putting in their list.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: So, who is being retained by PBKS if they are letting go of even Arshdeep Singh? Well, there is a very good chance that one of them could be Shashank Singh. He was bought by PBKS in last year's auction, only for them to ask if they can reverse that decision as they thought they had bought someone else, leading to a stern ‘No’ from the auctioneer The 29-year-old smashed 354 runs last season in 14 matches at a strike rate of 164.65 with two half-centuries. Now, the player that they didn't want to buy last season could be one just two that they retain before IPL 2025.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: And understandably enough, fans are not too happy about it, judging by the reactions on social media. PBKS tend to go into every auction with the biggest purse and they could be doing the same this season. But to not retain Arshdeep, arguably the biggest find ever in the history of the franchise and one of their most consistent performers, is quite astonishing. One has to remember, though, that nothing is official yet and they could still spring a surprise.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: SRH have decided to retain their captain Pat Cummins along with Heinrich Klaasen, Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head and Nitish Kumar Reddy. The Titans were all over the place last season but they have retained the usual suspects - Shubman Gill, Rashid Khan, Sai Sudarshan, Rahul Tewatia (uncapped) and Shahrukh Khan (uncapped).

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: It is reported by Cricbuzz that Rajasthan ROyals have decided to retain Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Riyan Parag, Shimron Hetmyer and Dhruv Jurel among their capped players and Sandeep Sharma as an uncapped player. This means that Jos Buttler is entering the auction pool this season. Another big splash.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: CSK has said that there is someone in their ranks who know who they are retaining and who they aren't. Just under an hour and a half to go for the deadline. The teams know what they are going to announce and surely, surely any and all negotiations have come to an end for now.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Russell entered the IPL when he was bought by the Delhi Daredevils in 2012. He made just seven appearances for them in two seasons before being bought by KKR ahead of the 2014 season. Russell played just twice for them in the 2014 season. What followed after that is history. Russell has 2484 runs and 115 to his name in 127 IPL matches. All but 58 runs and one wicket were for KKR. All those runs came at a mind-boggling strike rate of 174.92.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Teams can retain upto six players, which is the most the IPL has ever allowed ahead of a mega auction. This can be in the retention phase or by using the right-to-match card at the auction itself. There’s no cap on the no. of overseas players that can be retained. A franchise can opt for only foreigners to be retained. However, a franchise can only retain a maximum of five capped internationals and two uncapped players, whether Indian or overseas.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: RCB have already revealed their list of retentions, in a way. They out out a word puzzle and said that the names of the players they have retained are in it. So those who have a nack for puzzles have already got the press release

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: With Rishabh Pant going into the auction pool, it is safe to say that any previous records for highest bids will be broken and smashed and mangled. Former opener Aakash Chopra expects bids for Pant to be as high as ₹30 crore and he feels the same can be said for KL Rahul. "Rishabh Pant is going to get a lot of money. The amount could go to ?25 crore or even 30. The same is true for KL Rahul. Again a wicketkeeper-batter and scores 500-600 runs every year. Some people will cry over his strike rate. I saw a meme somewhere that he is more than 30 years old, married, and everyone is saying he is finished, so CSK might take him as such players go there," said Chopra on his YouTube channel.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Mitchell Starc was the headline buy of the 2024 IPL auction, so much that his bid may have led to the BCCI effectively introducing a cap on how much money can be spent on international players. Starc played a vital role for KKR in the playoffs and the final but he had a very poor league phase.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: According to reports, RCB are set to retain just three players. These are Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar and Yash Dayal, with the latter being listed as their uncapped retention. A lot of new stars to be seen in those RCB colours next season and one of those could be KL Rahul.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: If Rishabh Pant is being let go of, who are the players that Delhi Capitals are retaining? Well according to Cricbuzz, they are going to put Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs, Jaker Fraser-McGurk and Abhishek Porel (uncapped).

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Well there is the first big report claiming that MS Dhoni is set to be retained by CSK, which conversely means that the great man is not retiring just yet. According to Cricbuzz, CSK have decided to retain Ravindra Jadeja, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Matheesha Pathirana, Shivam Dube and Dhoni. The former captain has been retained as an uncapped player.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: The RTM card can be used just the way it was last year - teams have as many RTM cards as the vacant spots they have list in the number of players they are allowed to retain today. However, there is a little twist this year. The franchise that made the winning bid will now be given the option to raise their bid to whatever amount they wish, and the side using RTM will then have to match that.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: MS Dhoni's continued participation in the IPL is undoubtedly good for the tournament as a whole and not just for CSK. And a franchise-based league introducing a rule with the view of keeping a player around for a few years more is not without precedent. The rule of treating players who haven't been playing international cricket for five years as uncapped players had always existed in the IPL until 2021. Now they have brought it back and that means players like MS Dhoni can be retained for just ₹4 crore.

A franchise has a purse of ₹120 crore for the auction, a 20 per cent increase from last year. The base retention value of an uncapped player is ₹4 crore. For internationals, the franchise will have to spend ₹18 crore for the first player retained, ₹14 crore for the second, ₹11 crore for the third, ₹18 crore for the fourth and ₹14 crore for the fifth. It means that if a team decides to retain the maximum possible limit of five international players plus one uncapped player, they would have spent ₹79 crore out of their purse already.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: According to ESPNCricinfo, the champions have put Sunil Narine, Rinku Singh, Harshit Rana and Varun Chakravarthy in their retention list. It means that their captain Shreyas Iyer and so is the extraordinary Andre Russell, which is a real surprise indeed.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: But like KL Rahul, he is also wishing everyone a Happy Diwali. What will it be at the end of this Diwali for him? Will DC have their way and keep him on despite him not being captain, or will he be wearing yellow?

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Well KL Rahul has spoken up at last on deadline day but nope, it's nothing about his immediate future in the IPL. Rahul has just taken to X to wish everyone there a Happy Diwali. How nice. Meanwhile, there are strong reports emerging that LSG have decided not to retain him.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Well, well, well, ESPNCricinfo now reports that Delhi Capitals won't include Pant in their list of retentions.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Probably the longest speculation leading up to this deadline day has been about Rishabh Pant and DC. Pant had been rumoured to be the top pick for CSK if in case Dhoni decides not to play in IPL 2025. It is reported in the Times of India that DC doesn't look at Pant as their captain any more and the wicketkeeper-batter wanted to continue in that position, which is why he is considering a move.

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Retention deadline days are always exciting affairs. When it comes ahead of the mega auction, the drama gets dialed up a few notches. Lots of rumours and speculations around a number of big names and all of it will be put to rest today. Stay tuned for more updates!