IPL 2025 Retention Live Updates: DC omit Rishabh Pant, KKR release Shreyas Iyer, MS Dhoni retained as uncapped player
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- 45 Mins ago Andre Russell retained by KKR, Shreyas Iyer departs
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- 55 Mins ago MS Dhoni retained as an uncapped player
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- 36 Mins ago No surprises expected from SRH and GT
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IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Rishabh Pant, Jos Buttler, Shreyas Iyer and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are among the big names to be released. MS Dhoni has been retained by CSK as an uncapped player while Mumbai Indians have retained their big four Indian players of Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah and Suryakumar Yadav along with Tilak Varma. Pandya will remain captain of the five-time champions.
IPL 2025 Retention Live Updates: Rishabh Pant has been released by the Delhi Capitals ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction. Shreyas Iyer has also not been included Kolkata Knight Riders' list of retentions despite leading them to the title last year. Bhuvneshwar Kumar's time with Sunrisers Hyderabad also seems to have come to an end while MS Dhoni has been retained by Chennai Super Kings for ₹4 crore under the new uncapped player rule. ...Read More
There was a lot of speculation and reports of what the franchises and players were going to do and most of it have been put to rest today. With a mega auction preceding IPL 2025, there are expected to be some big moves on the day itself but the drama ahead of today's retention announcements cannot be downplayed at all. All kinds of big names have been left out of franchise's retention lists.
The biggest among these is arguably the question of whether MS Dhoni will play next season or not. The Chennai Super Kings is waiting on their 43-year-old former captain to tell them about what he is going to do next year, with the five-time champions yet to reveal details about what Dhoni has told them.
Delhi Capitals captain Rishabh Pant is rumoured to be interested in testing the waters. Speculation was rife about him being eyed as an option by CSK if Dhoni retires and while those rumours seem to have died down, the same can't be said about Pant leaving DC anyhow. KL Rahul is reported to have parted ways with Lucknow Super Giants and speculation is rife about Shreyas Iyer doing the same with the Kolkata Knight Riders despite leading them to the title last year.
There is a whole raft of speculation around Mumbai Indians alone, the team with arguably the most number of big name India stars. Former captain Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah are all rumoured to be interested in seeing where they stand in the IPL market and bring their long association with the five-time champions to an end. Even current captain Hardik Pandya has got rumours circling around him.
If there are big names who are not expected to leave their franchises, then they are speculated to have a vastly different role next season. That is what can be said of Virat Kohli, who is reported to be made captain of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) again. Kohli has been the face of the franchise even after stepping down as captain ahead of the 2022 season. Reports indicate that RCB may consider not retaining the 40-year-old Faf du Plessis, who had led the team in the last two seasons.
Unlike what was the case last season, no trades are allowed between the October 31 deadline day and the start of the 2025 season. This means that any player who decides to skip retention will go into the auction pool. The Right to Match rule has returned this season with a twist. If a team opts to retain fewer than six players, they gain RTM slots for the auction. These RTM options grant franchises a second chance to reacquire a player once they’re bid on by another team, simply by matching the highest bid. However, after a franchise uses an RTM, the team that placed the highest bid can raise its bid, forcing the original team to match again to retain their player.
Franchises are allowed to retain upto six players. Of these a maximum of five can be capped players and two can be uncapped, regardless of Indian or overseas. It is not necessary for franchises to fill up all six slots today, leaving some space for them to have RTM cards at the auction.
Each team can work with a purse of ₹120 crore, 20 percent more than what was the case last season. 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.
Franchises can also end up spending more than the minimum base price of the players, which means that the ₹75 crore that they will spend on five retained capped players can be distributed in any way they wish. Additionally, if the franchise end up having to spend more than ₹75 crore on five retentions of capped players, then that amount will be deducted from their purses.
The deadline for teams to submit their list of retentions is 5pm IST on October 31. Dates for the 2025 mega auction is yet to be announced officially but it is expected to happen towards the end of November.
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Who has been retained and who has been released - a full list
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Here's the full list of retained and released players by all 10 IPL franchises ahead of mega auction
Mumbai Indians
5 players retained:
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
Players eligible for RTM: One uncapped player
Full list of players not retained: 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
Chennai Super Kings
5 players retained:
Ruturaj Gaikwad: ₹18 crore
Matheesha Pathirana: ₹13 crore
Shivam Dube: ₹12 crore
Ravindra Jadeja: ₹18 crore
MS Dhoni: ₹4 crore
Purse remaining: INR 55 crore
RTM options at auction: One player
Full list of players not retained: 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
Royal Challengers Bangalore
3 players retained:
Virat Kohli: ₹21 crore
Rajat Patidar: ₹11 crore
Yash Dayal: ₹5 crore
Purse remaining: INR 83 crore
RTM options at auction: Three players
Full list of players not retained: 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
Delhi Capitals
4 players retained:
Axar Patel: ₹16.5 crore
Kuldeep Yadav: ₹13.25 crore
Tristan Stubbs: ₹10 crore
Abhishek Porel: ₹4 crore
Purse remaining: INR 73 crore
RTM options at auction: Two players
Full list of players not retained: 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.
Kolkata Knight Riders
6 players retained:
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 crore
RTM options at auction: None
Full list of players not retained: 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.
Lucknow Super Giants
5 players retained:
Nicholas Pooran: ₹21 crore
Ravi Bishnoi: ₹11 crore
Mayank Yadav: ₹11 crore
Mohsin Khan: ₹4 crore
Ayush Badoni: ₹4 crore
Purse remaining: INR 69 crore
RTM options at auctions: One player
Full list of players not retained: 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.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
5 players retained:
Pat Cummins: ₹18 crore
Abhishek Sharma: ₹14 crore
Nitiesh Reddy: ₹6 crore
Heinrich Klaasen: ₹23 crore
Travis Head: ₹14 crore
Purse remaining: INR 45 crore
RTM options at auction: One uncapped player
Full list of players not retained: 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.
Gujarat Titans
5 players retained:
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 crore
RTM options at auction: One player
Full list of players not retained: David Miller, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Noor Ahmad, Sai Kishore, Joshua Little, Mohit Sharma, Azmatullah Omarzai, Umesh Yadav, Gurnoor Brar, Kartik Tyagi, Manav Suthar, Spencer Johnson, Sandeep Warrier, BR Sharath, Mohammed Shami, Robin Minz, Sushant Mishra.
Punjab Kings
2 players retained:
Shashank Singh: ₹5.5 crore
Prabhsimran Singh: ₹4 crore
Purse remaining: INR 110.5 crore
RTM options at auction: Four players
Full list of players not retained: Arshdeep Singh, Matthew Short, Jitesh Sharma, Sikandar Raza, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Nathan Ellis, Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa, Shivam Singh, Harshal Patel, Chris Woakes, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Tanay Thyagarajann, Prince Choudhary, Rilee Rossouw.
Rajasthan Royals
6 players retained:
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 41 crore
RTM options at auction: None
Full list of players not retained: Jos Buttler, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Avesh Khan, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Abid Mushtaq, Nandre Burger, Tanush Kotian, Keshav Maharaj, Prasidh Krishna, Adam Zampa.
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Pandya and Rohit speak after being retained
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Mumbai Indians have posted videos of the captain and former captain talking about continuing with the franchise. Pandya says that the five players who have been retained form the fist that is the core of the team.
“Five people who have cherished good memories together. We are five fingers but one fist. That’s how I look at it. Brotherhood, friendship, and we are going to back each other no matter what,” he said.
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Virat Kohli retained by RCB for ₹21 crore
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: RCB have broken the bank for Kohli, unsurprisingly. No announcement yet on whether he will be captain or not, chances are that any confirmation of that sort would come only at the start of the 2025 season itself so a long way to go for that. Kohli has been retained for ₹21 crore, Rajat Patidar for ₹11 crore and Yash Dayal at ₹5 crore. Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj, Faf du Plessis, Cameron Green all released.
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: No surprises from Gujarat Titans
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Rashid Khan is GT's most expensive retention at ₹18 crore. Shubman Gill has been retained at ₹16.50 crore. Sai Sudharsan has been retained at ₹18.50 crore while uncapped players Rahul Tewatia and Shahrukh Khan have been retained at ₹4 crore.
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Just 2 retentions for PBKS, Arshdeep Singh released
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: As expected, PBKS have kept just two players in their squad, both of them uncapped.
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Jos Buttler not retained by RR
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Here is the next big name to be left out. Jos Buttler is absent from Rajasthan Royals' list of retentions. Captain Sanju Samson and Yashasvi Jaiswal have been retained for ₹18 crore each, Riyan Parag and Dhruv Jurel for ₹14 crore each, Shimron Hetmyer for ₹11 crore and Sandeep Sharma has been retained as an uncapped player for ₹4 crore.
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Klaasen retained at ₹23 crore, Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the auction
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: SRH have broken the bank for Klaasen and not too many can argue against that. He has been retained for ₹23 crore, captain Pat Cummins at ₹18 crore. The explosive opening duo Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head have been retained ₹14 crore each and Nitish Kumar Reddy at ₹6 crore. This means that Bhuvneshwar Kumar, a backbone of the side and the man who was instrumental in helping Pat Cummins settle as captain last season, has been released. SRH can't buy him back using the RTM either and so this could very well be the end of his time with the 2016 champions.
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Hardik Pandya remains MI's captain
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Unsurprisingly, Mumbai Indians have decided not to sack their captain after just one season at the helm. Hardik Pandya will remain captain and Jasprit Bumrah is the most expensive retention for MI. He has been retained at ₹18 crore, Suryakumar Yadav and Pandya at ₹16.35 crore each, Rohit Sharma at ₹16.30 crore and Tilak Varma at ₹8 crore.
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Andre Russell retained by KKR, Shreyas Iyer departs
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Those early rumours about Russell have been out to bed but it indeed seems to be the end of the road for Shreyas Iyer and KKR. Rinku Singh is KKR's most expensive retention at ₹13 crore and it looks like he is a strong candidate to be their new captain. Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine and Russell have been retained at ₹12 crore each. Ramandeep Singh is the uncapped retention at ₹4 crore.
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: KL Rahul not retained by LSG
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Lucknow Super Giants have let go of their first captain. Nicholas Pooran has been retained at ₹21 crore, Ravi Bishnoi at ₹11 crore, Mayank Yadav at ₹11 crore after which come two uncapped players in Mohsin Khan and Ayush Badoni at ₹4 crore each.
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: MS Dhoni retained as an 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: DELHI CAPITALS DON'T RETAIN RISHABH PANT!
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: THE RETENTION LISTS ARE OUT!
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: CSK ‘locked and loaded’
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: When will the retentions be announced?
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: Where will Shreyas Iyer go?
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: Rumours swirling around MI captaincy
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: AB de Villiers talks about a team he played for making a 'statement'
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: Russell u-turn in store?
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 could retain all their superstars
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: The Shashank redemption...
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: Punjab Kings to let go of Arshdeep Singh
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: No surprises expected from SRH and GT
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: Jos Buttler in the auction pool?
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 on their retention list….
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: Andre Russell and KKR…
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: The number of players a team can retain
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's ‘sneak peak’
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: Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul touted to smash auction records
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 could be among players KKR let go of
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: Major squad rehaul for RCB
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: Delhi Capitals' potential retentions…
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: MS Dhoni to be retained!
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: A tweak in the RTM rule
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: The 'MS Dhoni rule'
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.
IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: The purse available and how much teams can spend
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: KKR could let go of Iyer and Russell
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: Rishabh Pant speaks up…
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: A Happy Diwali from KL Rahul!
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: The Rishabh Pant rumours gather steam!
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: Rishabh Pant to part ways with DC?
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: Hello and welcome to deadline day!!
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!