Retention list for IPL 2025 came out, what happened to Virat, Rohit, Virat and Dhoni, these three captains were released

Cricket News Desk. All ten teams have retained players for IPL 2025. The retention list has been revealed on Thursday 31st October. Many surprising names are included in these which have been retained.

At the same time, the list of released players is also quite surprising, many teams have taken surprising decisions. Some teams have not even retained their captains from the previous season and this is a surprise. KKR ousted their champion captain by surprise. 47 players have been retained by 10 teams for IPL 2025.

Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals have retained the most players. Both of them have retained 6-6 players. Even after retaining 6 players, KKR did not retain its captain Shreyas Iyer. Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi Capitals also did not retain their captain. All the released players may attract big bids in the upcoming auction.

List of retained players
Rajasthan Royals
Sanju Samson: Rs 18 crore
Yashasvi Jaiswal: Rs 18 crore
Riyan Parag: Rs 14 crore
Dhruv Jurel: Rs 14 crore
Shimron Hetmyer: Rs 11 crore
Sandeep Sharma: Rs 4 crore

gujarat titans
Rashid Khan: Rs 18 crore
Shubman Gill: Rs 16.5 crore
Sai Sudarshan: Rs 8.5 crore
Rahul Tewatia: Rs 4 crore
Shahrukh Khan: Rs 4 crore

Kolkata Knight Riders
Rinku Singh: Rs 13 crore
Varun Chakraborty: Rs 12 crore
Sunil Narine: Rs 12 crore
Andre Russell: Rs 12 crore
Harshit Rana: Rs 4 crore
Ramandeep Singh: Rs 4 crore

Lucknow Super Giants
Nicholas Pooran: Rs 21 crore
Ravi Bishnoi: Rs 11 crore
Mayank Yadav: Rs 11 crore
Mohsin Khan: Rs 4 crore
Ayush Badoni: Rs 4 crore

Delhi Capitals
Akshar Patel: Rs 16.5 crore
Kuldeep Yadav: Rs 13.25 crore
Tristan Stubbs: Rs 10 crore
Abhishek Porel: Rs 4 crore

Royal Challengers Bangalore
Virat Kohli: Rs 21 crore
Rajat Patidar: Rs 11 crore
Yash Dayal: Rs 5 crore

Mumbai Indians
Jasprit Bumrah- Rs 18 crore
Suryakumar Yadav – Rs 16.35 crore
Hardik Pandya – Rs 16.35 crore
Rohit Sharma- Rs 16.30 crore
Tilak Verma- Rs 8 crores

punjab kings
Shashank Singh: Rs 5.5 crore (uncapped)
Prabhsimran Singh: Rs 4 crore (uncapped)

Sunrisers Hyderabad
Pat Cummins: Rs 18 crore
Abhishek Sharma: Rs 14 crore
Nitish Reddy: Rs 6 crore
Heinrich Klaasen: Rs 23 crore
Travis Head: Rs 14 crore

chennai superkings
Ruturaj Gaikwad – Rs 18 crore
Mathisha Pathirana – Rs 13 crore
Shivam Dubey – Rs 12 crore
Ravindra Jadeja- Rs 18 crore
Mahendra Singh Dhoni- Rs 4 crore.