As the BCCI is expected to allow IPL teams to retain five players each before the upcoming IPL player auction and with no cards for Retaining Match Rights in the Mega Auctions, team management of the respective IPL franchises will have their plates filled in the next couple of months. The Mega Auctions tend to be not easy for any of the franchises and particularly for the ones which performed well the previous season with their existing squad. The IPL has always been ruthless to its title holders, but last year when the Kolkata Knight Riders finally got their hands on the trophy, they quenched the ambitions of the Sunrisers Hyderabad led by Pat Cummins, Travis Head, and Heinrich Klaasen. Rajasthan Royals, with their stout line up, was a force to be finished with as they occupied the 3rd position in the IPL 2024 points table.
Though, the Mega Auction is sure to turn the tables. Most likely to play on these teams mentioned above, while teams like Punjab Kings, Gujarat Titans, and even Mumbai Indians would take it as a chance to wipe the slate clean. The procedure of 5 Player retentions and 0 RTMs being implemented, if it goes without saying, there may be some big names that IPL franchises will have no option but let go.
Let’s take a look at the players that each of the franchises will look to retain:
5 Players Chennai Super Kings Could Retain
Ruturaj Gaikwad
MS Dhoni
Matheesha Pathirana
Ravindra Jadeja/ Shivam Dube
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/ Venkatesh Iyer
Nitish Rana/Varun Chakaravarthy
Andre Russell
Sunil Narine
5 Players Lucknow Super Giants Could Retain
KL Rahul
Nicolas Pooran
Marcus Stoinis
Ravi Bishnoi
Ayush Badoni/ Krunal Pandya
5 Players Mumbai Indians Could Retain
Hardik Pandya
Suryakumar Yadav
Jasprit Bumrah
Tilak Verma
Rohit Sharma/Ishan Kishan
5 Players Punjab Kings Could Retain
Sam Curran
Arshdeep Singh
Kagiso Rabada
Prabsimran Singh/. Ashutosh Sharma
Shashank Singh
5 Players Rajasthan Royals Could Retain
Sanju Samson
Jos Buttler
Yashaswi Jaiswal
Riyan Parag
Trent Boult
5 Players Royal Challengers Bengaluru Could Retain
Virat Kohli
Rajat Patidar
Will Jacks
Cameron Green
Mohammad Siraj
5 Players Sunrisers Hyderabad Could Retain
Travis Head
Abhishek Sharma
Heinrich Klassen
Nitish Reddy
Pat Cummins/T Natarajan
