As the auction nears, top IPL teams like Chennai Super Kings, Gujarat Titans, and Kolkata Knight Riders must make tough decisions about who to keep. We take a closer look at which players franchises are likely to retain, from established stars like Ruturaj Gaikwad and Shubman Gill to emerging talents like Rinku Singh and Abhishek Sharma.
With reports coming in that BCCI is likely to allow IPL franchises to retain five players ahead of the IPL Player Auction to be held later this year, and with no Right to Match cards during the Mega auctions, the next couple of months will prove to be quite a handful for the respective team managements of the IPL teams. Mega auctions are always tricky for all the teams, especially for those who would have done well with their current setup the previous year. Last year Kolkata Knight Riders won the IPL trophy halting the juggernaut of the Pat Cummins-led and Travis Head-Heinrich Klassen-powered Sunrisers Hyderabad. Rajasthan Royals, with their band of solid performers, were a team to reckon with finishing third in the IPL 2024 points tally.
However, the Mega Auction is bound to shake things up. It will most likely affect these teams above the most while teams like Punjab Kings, Gujarat Titans, and even Mumbai Indians would look at this as an opportunity to start afresh. If at all, the reports of 5 Player retentions and 0 RTMs are indeed true, there could be some shocking names that IPL franchises might be forced to release.
Let’s take a look at Which 5 Players IPL Franchises Could Opt to Retain
5 Players Chennai Super Kings Could Retain
- Ruturaj Gaikwad
- MS Dhoni/Matheesha Pathirana
- Sameer Rizvi
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Rachin Ravindra
5 Players Delhi Capitals Could Retain
- Rishabh Pant
- Jake Fraser-McGurk
- Tristian Stubbs
- Axar Patel
- Kuldeep Yadav
5 Players Gujarat Titans Could Retain
- Shubman Gill
- David Miller
- Sai Sudarshan
- Mohammad Shami
- Rashid Khan
5 Players Kolkata Knight Riders Could Retain
- Shreyas Iyer
- Rinku Singh
- Nitish Rana/Varun Chakaravarthy
- Andre Russell/Rahmanullah Gurbaz
- Sunil Narine
5 Players Lucknow Super Giants Could Retain
- KL Rahul
- Quinton de Kock/Nicolas Pooran
- Marcus Stoinis
- Ravi Bishnoi
- Devdutt Padikkal/Ayush Badoni
5 Players Mumbai Indians Could Retain
- Hardik Pandya
- Suryakumar Yadav
- Jasprit Bumrah
- Tilak Varma
- Rohit Sharma/Ishan Kishan
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5 Players Punjab Kings Could Retain
- Sam Curran
- Arshdeep Singh
- Kagiso Rabada
- Prabsimran Singh
- Shashank Singh
5 Players Rajasthan Royals Could Retain
- Sanju Samson
- Jos Buttler
- Yashasvi Jaiswal
- Riyan Parag
- Trent Boult
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5 Players Royal Challengers Bengaluru Could Retain
- Virat Kohli
- Faf du Plessis
- Will Jacks
- Yash Dayal
- Mohammad Siraj
5 Players Sunrisers Hyderabad Could Retain
- Travis Head
- Abhishek Sharma
- Heinrich Klassen
- Nitish Reddy
- Pat Cummins/T Natarajan
