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IPL 2025 Player Retention Highlights: The BCCI were expected to announce reveal retention rules on Thursday, but no official statement was made.
Key Events
- 10:23 PM IST, Sep 26 Suryakumar to get retained?
- 9:44 PM IST, Sep 26 We are edging close to 10:00 PM now!
- 9:10 PM IST, Sep 26 Raina hopes for Gill to win IPL trophy!
- 8:41 PM IST, Sep 26 Who will SRH retain?
- 8:12 PM IST, Sep 26 Stay tuned!
- 7:35 PM IST, Sep 26 End of a cycle
- 7:00 PM IST, Sep 26 What will Rajasthan Royals do?
- 6:25 PM IST, Sep 26 What to expect?
- 6:11 PM IST, Sep 26 Who will LSG retain?
- 5:44 PM IST, Sep 26 Tough decisions for KKR!
- 5:24 PM IST, Sep 26 Who can Gujarat Titans retain?
- 4:50 PM IST, Sep 26 Who can Delhi Capitals retain?
- 4:18 PM IST, Sep 26 No Shikhar Dhawan!
- 4:09 PM IST, Sep 26 Big change in DC setup
- 3:37 PM IST, Sep 26 Ambati Rayudu on retentions
- 3:17 PM IST, Sep 26 How six retentions will help MI
- 2:51 PM IST, Sep 26 Rohit Sharma and the Mumbai Indians
- 2:19 PM IST, Sep 26 Punjab Kings part ways with Bayliss and Bangar
- 2:00 PM IST, Sep 26 Shakib Al Hasan retires from T20Is
- 1:28 PM IST, Sep 26 Rishabh Pant and the CSK rumours
- 1:01 PM IST, Sep 26 Shikhar Dhawan's admission about not finding motivation to play in the IPL
- 11:57 AM IST, Sep 26 Contrasting opinions among the franchises
- 11:21 AM IST, Sep 26 MS Dhoni is back in India
- 10:44 AM IST, Sep 26 Mega auctions where five players were retained
- 10:24 AM IST, Sep 26 Retention policy ahead of the 2022 auction
- 10:18 AM IST, Sep 26 MS Dhoni or no for CSK?
- 9:52 AM IST, Sep 26 Hello and welcome!
Summary
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: The 2025 season of the IPL marks the end of a three-year cycle which means this year it will be a mega-auction before the tournament. However, the BCCI is expected to allow the franchises to retain more players than they did before the previous mega auctions.
IPL 2025 Player Retention Highlights
IPL 2025 Player Retention Highlights: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) were expected to release its retention rules on Thursday, but there was no official announcement made. The rules were earlier expected to be announced in late August but the board delayed its decision with a mega auction looming this year and franchises not too keen on shaking up the balance within their squads. BCCI secretary Jay Shah had said in a statement last month that the board will take recommendations from the franchise owners to the IPL Governing Council for "further deliberation and evaluation before formulating the IPL player regulations"....Read More
The franchises had been allowed to retain upto four players each ahead of the last mega auction in 2022. The 2025 season marks the end of another three-year cycle and so it is time for a mega auction again. However, most franchises are keen on retaining five or more players so as to not disturb the balance of the squads they have built. It is now understood that the BCCI is expected to allow as many as six retentions.
It has to be noted though, that not all teams are in agreement in this matter. Those sides that enjoyed good results in the past season wanted the BCCI to allow more than three or four retentions, as was in the case of the 2022 auction. They have invested heavily in some young players and helped them grow, but there is a high chance of them going under the hammer in the case of only three retentions. Meanwhile, some teams who have failed to get results recently want a mega auction to go all guns blazing.
Given this scenario, the BCCI is expected to allow six retentions this year. At the same time though, they are also reportedly expected to scrap the Right to Match (RTM) option. The RTM card allowed franchises who had owned the player in the previous season to match the highest bid of the auction for that particular player and get him onboard.
Veteran spin-bowling all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin had panned the RTM option earlier this month. "The problem with RTM is that it is not fair value for the player. So, if you give three RTMs [to each team], the players will only go virtually empty-handed. Already, they do not get fair value in the auction," he had said on his Youtube channel.
Follow all the updates here:
Sep 26, 2024 10:23 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Suryakumar to get retained?
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Suryakumar is India's current T20I skipper and is also the no.1 batter in the format in the ountry. He is a sure shot to get retained by MI!
Sep 26, 2024 9:44 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: We are edging close to 10:00 PM now!
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Will the announcement be made today? We are edging close to 10:00 PM IST, and there has been no announcement yet!
Sep 26, 2024 9:10 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Raina hopes for Gill to win IPL trophy!
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Praising Gill, Raina said, "Shubman Gill is a super star. Gill is vice captain it means someone is thinking about him. If he does well in the IPL and win the trophy he is the future (captaincy). He will be the next super star."
Sep 26, 2024 8:41 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Who will SRH retain?
For SRH, retaining their Aussie duo Cummins and Head will be an obvious decision. Meanwhile, Klaasen and Markram too, alongwith young Abhishek.
Sep 26, 2024 8:12 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Stay tuned!
The BCCI still hasn't made an announcement yet folks! Stay tuned! The baord was supposed to announce it in late August but delayed it!
Sep 26, 2024 7:35 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: End of a cycle
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Ahead of the mega auction in 2022, franchises were allowed to retain upto four players each. This will mark the end of a three-year cycle. But most franchises want to retian five or more players.
Sep 26, 2024 7:00 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: What will Rajasthan Royals do?
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Samson is expected to remain at RR. RR might also retain Buttler, due to his experience, alongwith Boult. Meanwhile, Parag, Jaiswal will make the Indian contingent three!
Sep 26, 2024 6:25 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: What to expect?
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: We are expected to see six retentions per franchise this year. We could also see the RTM option get removed, which allowed teams to own players from the previous season to match the highest bid of the auction for that person and get him in the roster!
Sep 26, 2024 6:11 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Who will LSG retain?
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Rahul will be retained by LSG. But the franchise will need to select between De Kock and Pooran. Meanwhile, Padikkal and Badoni could also be fighting for a retention spot. Stoinis and Bishnoi could be the other retentions.
Sep 26, 2024 5:44 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Tough decisions for KKR!
KKR have plenty of decisions to make! Iyer is a sure shot at retention, alongwith Rinku. Meanwhile, they might need to pick two from Rana, Chakaravarthy, Russell and Gurbaz. Narine is also expected to be retained!
Sep 26, 2024 5:24 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Who can Gujarat Titans retain?
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: GT are expected to retain captain Gill, and it looks like the obvious one. They could retain Miller and Shami for their experience Sudarshan is key to their batting order and Rashid is the other one!
Sep 26, 2024 4:50 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Who can Delhi Capitals retain?
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Delhi are expected to retain Pant, Fraser-McGurk, Stubbs, Axar and Kuldeep! Pant is key to the franchise, and Fraser-McGurk was a revelation last season. Stubbs' all-round duties are handy. Meanwhile, Kuldeep and Axar complete the Indian trio.
Sep 26, 2024 4:18 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: No Shikhar Dhawan!
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Shikhar Dhawan announced his retirement recently and we won't see him in the next IPL! He played in 222 matches, registering 6769 runs, packed with two tons and 51 half-centuries. He has also smacked the highest number of fours in IPL history (768). He is also the first player to hit consecutive tons in the tournament.
Sep 26, 2024 4:09 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Big change in DC setup
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: We will also see Delhi Capitals without Ricky Ponting as head coach the next season. Ponting has joined PBKS and be leading their dugout. The Aussie is Punjab's third head coach in four seasons.
Sep 26, 2024 3:37 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Ambati Rayudu voices his opinion
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: For CSK star Rayudu said, "Personally I feel retentions have to be a lot more because a franchise invests a lot on player, the core of the team is what makes every team unique in the IPL so me the longer the core remains the culture of the team remains."
"There is a great chance of success. Retentions have to be and there needs be lot of retentions. It can't be one or two. All the important players should be retained," he added.
Sep 26, 2024 3:17 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: How six retentions will help MI
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Mumbai Indians are arguably the side with the most India international heavyweights in their side. Former captain Rohit Sharma, current skipper Hardik Pandya, Indian T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav and pace ace Jasprit Bumrah are all players they would be able to retain, in addition to the likes of Tim David.
Sep 26, 2024 3:09 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Are the mega auctions too frequent?
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Among the issues raised by franchise owners in the meeting with the BCCI was that the mega auction was too frequent. Among their biggest concern was that franchises are not able to build any kind of continuity.
Sep 26, 2024 2:51 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Rohit Sharma and the Mumbai Indians
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: The other news going around the rumour mill is Rohit Sharma's future with the Mumbai Indians. CSK's transition from Dhoni to Ruturaj Gaikwad couldn't have been smoother and on the other hand, MI's transition couldn't have been any bigger a trainwreck. Rohit has retired from T20Is but it doesn't look like his appetite for IPL has gone down thus far. He was replaced as captain in a rather unceremonious manner last season. Could this be the end of an era for MI?
Sep 26, 2024 2:19 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Punjab Kings part ways with Bayliss and Bangar: Report
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Punjab Kings had recently announced Ricky Ponting as their new head coach and so it is no surprise that they have now reportedly parted ways with Trevor Bayliss, who was the incumbent in that role. According to ESPNCricinfo, they also have parted ways with head of cricket development Sanjay Bangar.
Sep 26, 2024 2:00 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Shakib Al Hasan retires from T20Is
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: Bangladesh great Shakib Al Hasan has retired from T20Is and also confirmed that the upcoming Test against India in Kanpur will also be his last in the longest format of the game. He said that he had already played his last T20I at the 2024 T20 World Cup.
Sep 26, 2024 1:42 PM
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IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: MS Dhoni's situation with CSK
IPL 2025 Player Retention Live Updates: The only question as to whether Dhoni will play or not is entirely down to whether he chooses to play or not. CSK is ready to retain him if they get a go ahead from him and it is obviously in the interests of the league itself that he plays.
Sep 26, 2024 1:28 PM
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IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: Rishabh Pant and the CSK rumours
IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: There have been murmurs in the streets of CSK sizing up Rishabh Pant as a potential replacement for Dhoni if the iconic former captain decides to not play in the 2025 IPL. However, that seems quite unlikely, regardless of Dhoni's decision, as Delhi Capitals are expected to give their captain Pant a hike ahead of he 2025 auction. Pant's current IPL contract is worth ₹16 crore, but the franchise might offer him a better deal depending on the budget available.
Sep 26, 2024 1:01 PM
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IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: No Shikhar Dhawan in the next IPL
IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: Shikhar Dhawan marks the end of one of the most storied careers in India's white-ball cricket history. Unlike many other retired Indian players though, Dhawan decided to not continue playing in the IPL after retiring from international cricket, stating that he has ended his professional career altogether. The 38-year-old retired in August after having played 34 Tests, 167 ODIs and 68 T20Is for India between 2013 and 2022. The former India opener revealed that he didn't have the "inspiration" left to take the domestic cricket route for a place in the national side and that was the reason why he chose to retire from the game last month. "I didn't want to play domestic cricket, which I started playing at the age of 18 or 19 and I didn't have that inspiration from inside to play that (form of) cricket," Dhawan told PTI.
Sep 26, 2024 12:32 PM
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IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: The dates for the mega-auction
IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: It is not official yet but it is understood that the IPL 2025 auction could take place in late November.
Sep 26, 2024 11:57 AM
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IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: Contrasting opinions among the franchises
IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: Teams were keen or not keen on retaining a major chunk of their players based on the kind of seasons they have had. In a recent meeting of IPL officials and franchise owners, opinions were divided on what the auction regulations should be. 2024 winners Kolkata Knight Riders wanted teams to be allowed to retain their core and had put up the radical idea of allowing eight RTMs. Runners-up Sunrisers Hyderabad wanted to retain a lot of their team as well but wanted flexibility with regulations as many of their key assets like Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Heinrich Klaasen are foreigners. Other teams like LSG, keen on starting fresh, are known to have voted for fewer retentions.
Sep 26, 2024 11:21 AM
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IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: MS Dhoni is back in India
IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: The CSK legend was on vacation in the USA with a few close friends. A video showing Dhoni arriving at Ranchi airport has gone viral. CSK fans can hence expect some clarity on whether he is going to play or not next season.
Sep 26, 2024 10:44 AM
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IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: Mega auctions where five players were retained
IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: While it was three Indians plus one in 2022, franchises have been allowed to retain five players in past mega auctions. Three players could be retained pre-auction in 2018 and two could be bought back through RTM. In the event of teams retaining fewer than three players, three RTMs were allowed. Similarly, in the 2014 mega auction too, teams could retain as many as five players, but not more than four Indians. No RTM cards were introduced at the time.
Sep 26, 2024 10:24 AM
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IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: Retention policy ahead of the 2022 auction
IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: In the last mega-auction, teams were allowed to retain only four players. Of these only three could be Indians, with no RTM card permissible. This was to give new entrants Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants a wider pool of players to build their squad.
Sep 26, 2024 10:18 AM
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IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: MS Dhoni or no for CSK?
IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: Among the big questions ahead of this mega-auction is if MS Dhoni will be among the list of players retained by CSK. It is guaranteed that he will be retained if he tells CSK that he intends to continue playing but thus far, it is understood that there has been no such communication between the player and the franchise.
Sep 26, 2024 9:52 AM
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IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: Hello and welcome!
IPL 2025 Mega Auction Player Retention Live Updates: The red-ball season is in full swing in India but in the middle of all that will be the big mega-auction. The BCCI was expected to announce its retention rules last month but it has since been delayed. The board is now expected to announce these rules today. Stay tuned for more updates!
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