IPL 2025 Retention: Retention for Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 has been announced. Before the mega auction, all franchises are allowed to retain a maximum of six players. On Thursday, defending champion Kolkata Knight Riders were the only team to take full advantage of it. As a result, he will enter the IPL 2025 mega auction without any Right to Match (RTM) card.
Although many big players were expected to be released due to retention and in the end that is what happened. But there are some names here, who were not expected to be retained by the teams, but were retained later. Let's take a look at those players whose retention surprised the most.
Rohit Sharma
Everyone had predicted that Rohit Sharma would not be in the team next season after the change in captaincy with Mumbai Indians and Hardik Pandya would be handed over the captaincy. However, Rohit has decided to continue playing for Mumbai Indians. He is the franchise's fourth retention ahead of IPL 2025 with a contract worth Rs 16.30 crore.
Rohit decided to get retained at 4th position with 16.35cr as he wanted youngsters to get a spotlight 🫡♥️ pic.twitter.com/F5wsghFY7k
— Ayyappan (@Ayyappan_1504) October 31, 2024
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Prabhsimran Singh
The retention list of Punjab Kings was the most surprising, because they retained only two players. The interesting thing is that both are uncapped players. Instead of opting to retain Arshdeep Singh and Sam Curran, Punjab chose Prabhsimran Singh and Shashank Singh for IPL 2025. The probable reason for these retentions is the excellent performance by both the players in IPL 2024.
Shahrukh Khan
Shahrukh Khan was not expected to be retained considering his mediocre performance in IPL 2024. The Gujarat team had signed him in 2023 by paying a huge amount, but he could not do anything special this year. However, even after this the franchise has expressed confidence in him.
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