Punjab Kings will enter IPL 2025 Mega Auction with pride, Rajasthan Royals' pockets will remain tight

sports desk: All the teams have released the retention list for IPL 2025. All the teams have retained their top players. Heinrich Klaasen of South Africa took the most money in this retention. Sunrisers Hyderabad team has kept Klaasen with them by paying Rs 23 crores. Virat Kohli took the most money among Indian players. Royal Challengers Bangalore retained Virat Kohli by paying Rs 21 crores.

The franchise will enter the mega auction with this much money.

Rs 110.5 crore – Punjab Kings
Rs 83 crore – Royal Challengers Bangalore
Rs 73 crore – Delhi Capitals
Rs 69 crore – Lucknow Super Giants
Rs 55 crore – Chennai Super Kings
Rs 51 crore – Kolkata Knight Riders
Rs 45 crore – Sunrisers Hyderabad
Rs 45 crore – Mumbai Indians
Rs 41 crore – Rajasthan Royals
Rs 69 crore – Gujarat Titans

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List of players retained before IPL 2025

Mumbai Indians – Jasprit Bumrah (18 crore), Suryakumar Yadav (16.35 crore), Hardik Pandya (16.35 crore), Rohit Sharma (16.30) and Tilak Verma (8 crore)

Chennai Super Kings – Ruturaj Gaikwad (18 crore), Mathisa Pathirana (13 crore), Shivam Dubey (12 crore), Ravindra Jadeja (18 crore) and MS Dhoni (4 crore)

Rajasthan Royals – Sanju Samson (18 crore), Yashasvi Jaiswal (18 crore), Riyan Parag (14 crore), Dhruv Jurel (14 crore), Shimron Hetmyer (11 crore) and Sandeep Sharma (4 crore)

rcb – Virat Kohli (21 crores), Rajat Patidar (11 crores) and Yash Dayal (5 crores)

punjab kings – Shashank Singh (5.50 crore) and Prabhsimran Singh (4 crore)

Delhi Capitals – Axar Patel (16.5 crore), Kuldeep Yadav (13.25 crore), Tristan Stubbs (10 crore) and Abhishek Porel (4 crore)

Lucknow Super Giants – Nicholas Pooran (21 crore), Ravi Bishnoi (11 crore), Mayank Yadav (11 crore), Ayush Badoni (4 crore) and Mohsin Khan (4 crore)

Kolkata Knight Riders – Sunil Narayan (12 crore), Rinku Singh (13 crore), Andre Russell (12 crore), Varun Chakraborty (12 crore), Ramandeep Singh (4 crore) and Harshit Rana (4 crore)

Sunrisers Hyderabad – Heinrich Klaasen (23 crore), Pat Cummins (18 crore), Abhishek Sharma (14 crore), Nitish Reddy (6 crore) and Travis Head (14 crore)

Gujarat Titans – Shubman Gill (16.5 crore), Rashid Khan (18 crore), Sai Sudarshan (8.5 crore), Rahul Tewatia (4 crore) and Shahrukh Khan (4 crore)

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