IPL 2025 Retention Full List: 6 Players Each Team Could Retain Ahead of Mega Auction

Ahead of the IPL 2025 Mega Auctions, the league’s Governing Council announced new player regulations with the teams allowed to now retain up to six players, with a maximum of five capped players and two uncapped players, through retention or the Right to Match (RTM) option.

The auction purse for IPL 2025 is set at INR 120 crore, with the total salary cap rising to INR 146 crore. Notably, a match fee of INR 7.5 lakhs per player has been introduced, marking a first in IPL history. Overseas players must register for the auction, with penalties for those who withdraw post-selection.

Additionally, Indian capped players can be classified as uncapped if they haven’t played international cricket in the past five years. The Impact Player rule will continue for the upcoming cycle.

Let’s take a look at Which 6 Players IPL Franchises Could Opt to Retain

6 Players Chennai Super Kings Could Retain

• Ruturaj Gaikwad
• MS Dhoni
• Sameer Rizvi
• Ravindra Jadeja
• Rachin Ravindra
• Matheesha Pathirana

6 Players Delhi Capitals Could Retain

• Rishabh Pant
• Jake Fraser-McGurk
• Tristian Stubbs
• Axar Patel
• Kuldeep Yadav
• Mitchell Marsh

6 Players Gujarat Titans Could Retain

• Shubman Gill
• David Miller
• Sai Sudarshan
• Mohammad Shami
• Rashid Khan
• Joshua Little/Azmatullah Omarzai

6 Players Kolkata Knight Riders Could Retain

• Shreyas Iyer
• Rinku Singh
• Varun Chakaravarthy
• Andre Russell
• Sunil Narine
• Nitish Rana/Harshit Rana/Rahmanullah Gurbaz

6 Players Lucknow Super Giants Could Retain

• KL Rahul
• Quinton de Kock/Nicolas Pooran
• Marcus Stoinis
• Ravi Bishnoi
• Devdutt Padikkal
• Ayush Badoni

6 Players Mumbai Indians Could Retain

• Hardik Pandya
• Suryakumar Yadav
• Jasprit Bumrah
• Tilak Varma
• Rohit Sharma
• Ishan Kishan

6 Players Punjab Kings Could Retain

• Arshdeep Singh
• Kagiso Rabada
• Prabsimran Singh
• Shashank Singh
• Ashutosh Sharma
• Harshal Patel

6 Players Rajasthan Royals Could Retain

• Sanju Samson
• Jos Buttler
• Yashasvi Jaiswal
• Riyan Parag
• Trent Boult
• R Ashwin/Yuzvendra Chahal

6 Players Royal Challengers Bengaluru Could Retain

• Virat Kohli
• Faf du Plessis
• Will Jacks
• Yash Dayal
• Mohammad Siraj
• Glenn Maxwell

6 Players Sunrisers Hyderabad Could Retain

• Travis Head
• Pat Cummins
• Abhishek Sharma
• Heinrich Klassen
• Aiden Markram
• Glenn Phillips/Marco JAnsen