Fans were surprised by the retention of those 3 players to whom the team did not give even an iota of respect last season.

IPL 2025: Retention has been announced for IPL 2025. Before the mega auction, BCCI had given permission to all the franchises to retain a maximum of six players. Last Thursday, defending champion Kolkata Knight Riders were the only team which took full advantage of it. The result was that he will enter the mega auction of IPL 2025 without any right to match card.

The retained players also include some names who were not expected to be retained by the teams, but were later retained. Let's take a look at those 3 players whose retention has surprised everyone.

Rohit Sharma

Regarding former Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma, everyone was thinking that after the change in captaincy with the franchise in the next season, he will not remain in the team and the captaincy will be handed over to Hardik Pandya. However, Rohit has decided to continue playing for Mumbai Indians. Let us tell you, he is the fourth retention of the franchise with a contract of Rs 16.30 crore before IPL 2025.

Prabhsimran Singh

The retention list of Punjab Kings for IPL 2025 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, the franchise retained Prabhsimran Singh and Shashank Singh for IPL 2025. It is believed that the reason for this retention is the excellent performance by both the players in IPL 2024.

Shahrukh Khan

Shahrukh Khan showed an ordinary performance in IPL 2024. Given this, there was little hope of him being retained. Let us tell you, 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 once again expressed confidence in him.