IPL 2025: Before the mega auction of the Indian Premier League (IPL) this year, all the ten IPL teams will have to release their players. However, before this auction and before releasing their players, the teams can retain some of their players. During this time, many teams also trade players with each other.

Teams can retain these 6 players before IPL 2025

Before the mega auction of IPL 2025, teams can retain their 6 players. Out of this, five-time title winning Mumbai Indians team can retain captain Hardik Pandya, Jaspreet Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma. At the same time, CSK team can retain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Rituraj Gaikwad, Mathisha Pathirana, Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dubey and Rachin Ravindra. At the same time, three-time IPL champion KKR team can retain Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Varun Chakraborty.

RR, GT and SRH, who have won one title each, can retain these players

Gujarat Titans, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals have won only one title each so far. Rajasthan Royals can retain their captain Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Trent Bolt, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel and Jos Buttler. Gujarat Titans can retain their captain Shubman Gill, Sai Sudarshan, Mohammad Shami, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmed and David Miller. Sunrisers Hyderabad can retain captain Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Heinrich Klaasen.

These three teams are craving for the title and can retain these players

So far, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Punjab Kings and Lucknow Super Giants have not won a single title in IPL. Out of these, RCB can retain Virat Kohli, Mohammad Siraj, Yash Dayal, Cameron Green, Rajat Patidar and Will Jacks. Punjab Kings can retain Shikhar Dhawan, Ashutosh Sharma, Shashank Singh, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Jitesh Sharma. While Lucknow Super Giants can retain Nicholas Pooran, Mayank Yadav, Marcus Stoinis, Quinton de Kock, Ravi Bishnoi, Mark Wood.