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

IPL 2025 Retention Highlights: Rishabh Pant will enter the IPL 2025 mega auctions, MS Dhoni has been retained by CSK as an uncapped player.
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IPL 2025 Retention Highlights: Delhi Capitals have excluded Rishabh Pant from their list of retentions.
IPL 2025 Retention Highlights: Delhi Capitals have excluded Rishabh Pant from their list of retentions.

IPL 2025 Retention Highlights: 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

Pant is not the only captain to be released today. KL Rahul, who captained LSG since their inception, will be in the auction pool. Their owner Sanjiv Goenka said that LSG have retained players who put the team before their personal goals and aspirations. RCB have let go of their captain Faf du Plessis amidst rumours of Virat Kohli being reinstated in that role. Shreyas Iyer has been let go of KKR despite leading them to their first title in a decade last year.

Mumbai Indians have stuck with Hardik Pandya as their captain and managed to keep their core big name India stars - Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah and Tilak Varma. SRH broke the bank to retain Heinrich Klaasen at 23 crore. He is the most expensive retention this year. Punjab Kings are the only side to have not retained a capped player, keeping just Shashank Singh and Prabhsimran Singh. They have even allowed their star pacer Arshdeep Singh to go into auction pool. KKR have meanwhile retained Andre Russell, contrary to the rumours before Thursday. Dates for the 2025 mega auction is yet to be announced officially but it is expected to happen towards the end of November.

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Oct 31, 2024 7:55 PM IST

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: That's a wrap!

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: The day was as dramatic as expected. Let's face it, we all knew MS Dhoni is going to be retained and most knew that Rishabh Pant was going to be released. Despite that, the details of the retentions and the implications it has made deadline day itself quite eventful while setting up some rather sumptous action at the mega auction. No official dates for it yet but it is expected to take place in late November.

Oct 31, 2024 7:47 PM IST

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Yuzvendra Chahal.... a look at the names that could make a big splash at the auction

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: There are some big names set to go under the hammer in the 2025 mega auction. Here are some of them:

Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Yuzvendra Chahal, Marcus Stoinis, Quinton de Kock, Mitchell Starc, Phil Salt, Venkatesh Iyer, David Miller, Mohammed Shami, Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Tushar Deshpande, Jos Buttler, Trent Boult, R Ashwin, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj, Cameron Green, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Sam Curran, Jonny Bairstow, Liam Livingstone, Ishan Kishan, Tim David

Oct 31, 2024 7:29 PM IST

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: The released captains

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Quite a few players who led teams last season are going to be in the auction pool this year. Faf du Plessis led RCB last year, he is not in the list of retentions. KL Rahul has been LSG's captain since their inception two seasons ago. Shreyas Iyer led KKR to their first title in a decade. Rishabh Pant has been DC's captain for many a year and will no longer be playing for them.

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Oct 31, 2024 7:15 PM IST

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: The remaining purses

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Punjab Kings go in with the biggest purse, as they often do. They do love to hit the reset buttons on their teams. RR have the least. Here is the full list of remaining purses for all the franchises.

Punjab Kings - 110.5 crore

Royal Challengers Bengaluru - 83 crore

Delhi Capitals - 73 crore

Gujarat Titans - 69 crore

Lucknow Super Giants - 69 crore

Chennai Super Kings - 55 crore

Kolkata Knight Riders - 51 crore

Mumbai Indians - 45 crore

Sunrisers Hyderabad - 45 crore

Rajasthan Royals - 41 crore

Oct 31, 2024 7:03 PM IST

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: Sanjeev Goenka takes a veiled dig at KL Rahul?

IPL 2025 Retentions Live Updates: There was a rather heated exchange between LSG chief Sanjiv Goenka and KL Rahul last season. While that was played down in the days since, it seems that has played out again in Goenka's comments on his team's retentions.

"It was a simple mindset to go in with players who have a mindset to win, who put the team first before their personal goals and personal aspirations and we wanted to retain as much as of core we could," he said.

Oct 31, 2024 7:00 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 6:51 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 6:34 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 6:27 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 6:17 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 6:09 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 5:56 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 5:52 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 5:48 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 5:44 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 5:38 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 5:33 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 5:31 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 5:29 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 5:19 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 5:11 PM 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.

Oct 31, 2024 4:58 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 4:52 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 4:40 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 4:32 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 4:18 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 4:08 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 3:57 PM IST

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).

Oct 31, 2024 3:44 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 3:37 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 3:23 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 3:11 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 2:54 PM IST

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

Oct 31, 2024 2:41 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 2:30 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 2:21 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 2:09 PM IST

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).

Oct 31, 2024 2:01 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 1:56 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 1:36 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 1:24 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 1:06 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 12:57 PM IST

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?

Oct 31, 2024 12:48 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 12:39 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 12:22 PM IST

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.

Oct 31, 2024 12:05 PM IST

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!

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