The Indian Premier League (IPL) announced the new player retention rules for franchises ahead of the IPL 2025 mega-action, to be held later in the year. (More Cricket News)
Each of the ten teams will be allowed to retain a maximum of six players, in which no more than five players should be capped. However, the choice of utilisation is left to the franchises - four retentions or two RTMs, three retentions and three RTMs
The Indian Premier League (IPL) announced the new player retention rules for franchises ahead of the IPL 2025 mega-action, to be held later in the year. (More Cricket News)
Each of the ten teams will be allowed to retain a maximum of six players, in which no more than five players should be capped.
However, the choice of utilisation is left to the franchises - four retentions or two RTMs, three retentions and three RTMs and so forth.
According to ESPNcricinfo, the retention brackets are 18 crore, 14 crore, 11 crore, 18 crore, 14 crore, 4 crore (uncapped)
A major change in rules meant that a capped Indian player will be eligible to fall under the bracket of an uncapped player if he has not been a part of the playing XI in any of the formats for the last five years in international cricket.
- Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Cameron Green, Mohammed Siraj.
- MS Dhoni, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ravindra Jadeja, Matheesha Pathirana, Shivam Dube.
- Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy.
- Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Tilak Varma.
- KL Rahul, Nicholas Pooran, Mayank Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi.
- Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy.
- Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal.
- Shubman Gill, Rashid Khan, Sai Sudharsan, Mohammed Shami.
- Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel, Jake Fraser-McGurk.
- Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Liam Livingstone.
The Indian Premier League 2025 mega auction is likely to be scheduled for the third or fourth week of November, and the venue has not been finalised yet.