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Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni were the big names to be retained by their respective teams while Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer were released.

The list of retained and released players by each team ahead of the Indian Premier League 2025 mega auction included plenty of surprises on Thursday.

While big names like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Pat Cummins, Heinrich Klaasen and Nicholas Pooran were retained by their respective teamsRishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Mitchell Starc and KL Rahul were released ahead of the mega auction.

All 10 cricket teams executed their IPL 2025 retention strategies to maintain a balanced core. Each team could retain up to five capped players, two uncapped players, and a maximum of six players in total.

Teams that retained fewer players will have more Right-to-Match (RTM) options and a larger purse going into the mega auction later this year.

Punjab Kings retained two uncapped players – Shashank Singh and Prabhsimran Singh – and none in the capped category. At the mega auction, they will have four RTM options available for capped players.

Five-time champions Mumbai Indians went for a contrasting approach, retaining five capped players – Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah and Tilak Varma – and none in the uncapped category.

Defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders released their title-winning captain Shreyas Iyer but used all six of their retentions to keep mystery spinner Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh and Harshit Rana in the team. Rajasthan Royals also used up all six of their retentions.

Like the Kolkata Knight Riders, Delhi Capitals, Lucknow Super Giants, Punjab Kings and Royal Challlenger Bengaluru also let go of their captains from the previous season with Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Sam Curran and Faf du Plessis set to enter the mega auction.

The Chennai Super Kings retained former Indian captain MS Dhoni under the uncapped player category. Per the IPL retention rules, players who did not play international cricket in the last five years came under the uncapped category.

IPL 2025 retention: Players retained and released

* Overseas players

Chennai Super Kings IPL 2025 retention

CSK retained players

  1. MS Dhoni
  2. Matheesha Pathirana*
  3. Ruturaj Gaikwad
  4. Ravindra Jadeja
  5. Shivam Dube

CSK released players

  1. Ajay Mandal
  2. Ajinkya Rahane
  3. Deepak Chahar
  4. Devon Conway*
  5. Maheesh Theekshana*
  6. Mitchell Santner*
  7. Moeen Ali*
  8. Mukesh Choudhary
  9. Nishant Sindhu
  10. Prashant Solanki
  11. Rajvardhan Hangargekar
  12. Shaik Rasheed
  13. Simarjeet Singh
  14. Tushar Deshpande
  15. Rachin Ravindra*
  16. Shardul Thakur
  17. Daryl Mitchell*
  18. Sameer Rizvi
  19. Mustafizur Rahman*
  20. Avanish Rao Aravelly

Delhi Capitals IPL 2025 retention

DC retained players

  1. Axar Patel
  2. Kuldeep Yadav
  3. Tristan Stubbs*
  4. Abishek Porel

DC released players

  1. Anrich Nortje*
  2. David Warner* (retired)
  3. Ishant Sharma
  4. Lalit Yadav
  5. Mitchell Marsh*
  6. Mukesh Kumar
  7. Pravin Dubey
  8. Prithvi Shaw
  9. Rishabh Pant
  10. Syed Khaleel Ahmed
  11. Vicky Ostwal
  12. Yash Dhull
  13. Harry Brook*
  14. Ricky Bhui
  15. Kumar Kushagra
  16. Rasikh Dar
  17. Jhye Richardson*
  18. Sumit Kumar
  19. Shai Hope*
  20. Swastik Chhikara
  21. Jake Fraser-McGurk*

Gujarat Titans IPL 2025 retention

GT retained players

  1. Rashid Khan*
  2. Shubman Gill
  3. B Sai Sudharsan
  4. Rahul Tewatia
  5. Shahrukh Khan

GT released players

  1. BR Sharath
  2. Abhinav Manohar
  3. Sandeep Warrier
  4. Gurnoor Brar
  5. Darshan Nalkande
  6. David Miller*
  7. Jayant Yadav
  8. Joshua Little*
  9. Kane Williamson*
  10. Matthew Wade*
  11. Mohammad Shami
  12. Mohit Sharma
  13. Noor Ahmad*
  14. Sai Kishore
  15. Vijay Shankar
  16. Wriddhiman Saha
  17. Azmatullah Omarzai*
  18. Umesh Yadav
  19. Sushant Mishra
  20. Kartik Tyagi
  21. Manav Suthar
  22. Spencer Johnson*

Kolkata Knight Riders IPL 2025 retention

KKR retained players

  1. Sunil Narine*
  2. Rinku Singh
  3. Varun Chakravarthy
  4. Andre Russell*
  5. Ramandeep Singh
  6. Harshit Rana

KKR released players

  1. Shreyas Iyer
  2. Rahmanullah Gurbaz*
  3. Nitish Rana
  4. Sherfane Rutherford*
  5. Phil Salt*
  6. KS Bharat
  7. Manish Pandey
  8. Angkrish Raghuvanshi
  9. Anukul Roy
  10. Venkatesh Iyer
  11. Suyash Sharma
  12. Allah Ghazanfar*
  13. Dushmantha Chameera*
  14. Sakib Hussain
  15. Vaibhav Arora
  16. Mitchell Starc*
  17. Chetan Sakariya

Lucknow Super Giants IPL 2025 retention

LSG retained players

  1. Nicholas Pooran*
  2. Mayank Yadav
  3. Ravi Bishnoi
  4. Mohsin Khan
  5. Ayush Badoni

LSG released players

  1. KL Rahul
  2. Devdutt Padikkal
  3. Quinton de Kock*
  4. Ashton Turner*
  5. Deepak Hooda
  6. Krishnappa Gowtham
  7. Krunal Pandya
  8. Kyle Mayers*
  9. Marcus Stoinis*
  10. Arshad Khan
  11. Prerak Mankad
  12. Yudhvir Singh
  13. Arshin Kulkarni
  14. David Willey*
  15. Shivam Mavi
  16. Shamar Joseph*
  17. Matt Henry*
  18. Yash Thakur
  19. Amit Mishra
  20. Naveen ul Haq*
  21. M Siddharth

Mumbai Indians IPL 2025 retention

MI retained players

  1. Rohit Sharma
  2. Suryakumar Yadav
  3. Tilak Varma
  4. Hardik Pandya
  5. Jasprit Bumrah

MI released players

  1. Dewald Brevis*
  2. Ishan Kishan
  3. Harvik Desai
  4. Tim David*
  5. Vishnu Vinod
  6. Arjun Tendulkar
  7. Mohammad Nabi*
  8. Romario Shepherd*
  9. Shams Mulani
  10. Nehal Wadhera
  11. Gerald Coetzee*
  12. Anshul Kamboj
  13. Naman Dhir
  14. Shivalik Sharma
  15. Kwena Maphaka*
  16. Kumar Kartikeya Singh
  17. Piyush Chawla
  18. Akash Madhwal
  19. Luke Wood*
  20. Dilshan Madushanka*
  21. Shreyas Gopal
  22. Nuwan Thushara*

Punjab Kings IPL 2025 retention

PBKS retained players

  1. Prabhsimran Singh
  2. Shashank Singh

PBKS released players

  1. Shikhar Dhawan (retired)
  2. Jitesh Sharma
  3. Jonny Bairstow*
  4. Liam Livingstone*
  5. Harpreet Bhatia
  6. Rilee Rossouw*
  7. Chris Woakes*
  8. Vishwanath Pratap Singh
  9. Ashutosh Sharma
  10. Tanay Thyagarajan
  11. Atharva Taide
  12. Rishi Dhawan
  13. Sam Curran*
  14. Sikandar Raza*
  15. Shivam Singh
  16. Prince Choudhary
  17. Harpreet Brar
  18. Arshdeep Singh
  19. Kagiso Rabada*
  20. Nathan Ellis*
  21. Rahul Chahar
  22. Vidwath Kaverappa
  23. Harshal Patel

Royal Challengers Bangalore IPL 2025 retentions

RCB retained players

  1. Virat Kohli
  2. Rajat Patidar
  3. Yash Dayal

RCB released players

  1. Faf du Plessis*
  2. Anuj Rawat
  3. Dinesh Karthik (retired)
  4. Suyash S Prabhudessai
  5. Will Jacks*
  6. Saurav Chauhan
  7. Glenn Maxwell*
  8. Mahipal Lomror
  9. Karn Sharma
  10. Cameron Green*
  11. Swapnil Singh
  12. Mayank Dagar
  13. Manoj Bhandage
  14. Akash Deep
  15. Alzarri Joseph*
  16. Lockie Ferguson*
  17. Mohammed Siraj
  18. Tom Curran*
  19. Reece Topley*
  20. Himanshu Sharma
  21. Vyshak Vijay Kumar
  22. Rajan Kumar

Rajasthan Royals IPL 2025 retention

RR retained players

  1. Sanju Samson
  2. Yashasvi Jaiswal
  3. Riyan Parag
  4. Sandeep Sharma
  5. Shimron Hetmyer
  6. Dhruv Jurel

RR released players

  1. Jos Buttler*
  2. Kunal Rathore
  3. Donovan Ferreira*
  4. Rovman Powell*
  5. Shubham Dubey
  6. Tom Kohler-Cadmore*
  7. Ravichandran Ashwin
  8. Tanush Kotian
  9. Abid Mushtaq
  10. Avesh Khan
  11. Kuldeep Sen
  12. Navdeep Saini
  13. Keshav Maharaj*
  14. Trent Boult*
  15. Yuzvendra Chahal
  16. Nandre Burger*

Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL 2025 retention

SRH retained players

  1. Heinrich Klaasen*
  2. Pat Cummins*
  3. Abhishek Sharma
  4. Travis Head*
  5. Nitish Kumar Reddy

SRH released players

  1. Abdul Samad
  2. Aiden Markram*
  3. Rahul Tripathi
  4. Glenn Phillips*
  5. Mayank Agarwal
  6. Anmolpreet Singh
  7. Upendra Singh Yadav
  8. Marco Jansen*
  9. Washington Sundar
  10. Sanvir Singh
  11. Wanindu Hasaranga*
  12. Akash Singh
  13. Shahbaz Ahamad
  14. Bhuvneshwar Kumar
  15. Fazalhaq Farooqi*
  16. Jaydev Unadkat
  17. T Natarajan
  18. Umran Malik
  19. Mayank Markande
  20. Jhathavedh Subramanyan
  21. Vijayakanth Viyaskanth

Courtesy:  olympics.com

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