IPL Retention: How much purse does each team have ahead of mega-auction?

The Indian Premier League franchises announced their retention lists on Thursday, October 31. With the new retention rules in place, here's a look at how much purse money with left with each franchise.

In Short

• IPL teams release list of player retentions
• PBKS has the biggest purse for IPL auctions
• KKR let go of captain Shreyas Iyer

The 10 Indian Premier League teams announced their retentions ahead of the mega-auction. The retention list of teams had several surprising calls, with captains Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul being let go from their respective franchises. Apart from the batting duo, Rishabh Pant also opted to enter the auction arena and parted ways with Delhi Capitals after 9 long seasons.

There were some similar trends as Punjab Kings once again opted to reset their entire side, only retaining Shashank Singh and Prabhsimran Singh as their uncapped Indian stars. With the new retention rules, here's a look at how much purse is left with each franchise going into the 2025 auction.

IPL Retention: Live Updates

RETENTION SLABS

The Indian Premier League finally made its retention slabs official on Thursday. According to the rules, the new retention slabs were set at Rs 18 crore, Rs 14 crore, Rs 11 crore, Rs 18 crore, Rs 14 crore, Rs 11 crore, and Rs 4 crore for the uncapped Indian player.

Now minus the uncapped retention - this comes up to exactly Rs 75 crore.

However, these retention slabs were not set in stone. It was revealed that in case the team were able to retain players below the slabs, for 5 retentions - they would still have to pay Rs 75 crore. However, if they were to go over Rs 75 crore, they would have to pay that extra cash.

For example - KKR paid 49 crore for their top 4 capped players - but they still had to shell out Rs 61 crore (18 + 14 + 11 + 18) from their auction purse.

Due to this particular dynamics, a lot of teams moved around their budget for each player to fit that Rs 75 core mark, for their top 5 players.

Going into the auction, Punjab Kings have the biggest purse at Rs 110.5 crore, while Rajasthan Royals have the smallest one - only Rs 41 crore after retaining 6 players in the side.

On that note, here's the total purse left for each franchise after the official retention list.

PURSES LEFT FOR EACH IPL FRANCHISE

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) - Rs 51 crore

Retentions: Sunil Narine (12), Rinku Singh (13), Andre Russell (12), Varun Chakaravarthy (12), Harshit Rana (4) and Ramandeep Singh (4).

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) - Rs 45 crore

Retentions: Heinrich Klaasen (23), Pat Cummins (18), Travis Head (14), Abhishek Sharma (14) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (6).

Rajasthan Royals (RR) - Rs 41 crore

Retentions: Sanju Samson (18), Riyan Parag (14), Yashasvi Jaiswal (18), Sandeep Sharma (4), Dhruv Jurel (14) and Shimron Hetmyer (11).

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) - Rs 83 crore

Retentions: Virat Kohli (21), Rajat Patidar (11) and Yash Dayal (5).

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) - Rs 55 crore

Retentions: Ruturaj Gaikwad (18), MS Dhoni (4), Ravindra Jadeja (18), Shivam Dube (12), Matheesha Pathirana (13).

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) - Rs 69 crore

Retentions: Nicholas Pooran (21), Mayank Yadav (11), Ravi Bishnoi (4), Mohsin Khan (4), Ayush Badoni (4).

Gujarat Titans (GT) - Rs 69 crore

Retentions: Rashid Khan (18), Shubman Gill (16.5), Sai Sudharsan (8.5), Rahul Tewatia (4), Shahrukh Khan (4).

Delhi Capitals (DC) - Rs 73 crore

Retentions: Axar Patel (16.5), Abhishek Porel (4), Tristan Stubbs (10), Kuldeep Yadav (13.5)

Punjab Kings (PBKS) - Rs 110.5 crore

Retentions: Shashank Singh (5.5) and Prabhsimran Singh (4).

Mumbai Indians (MI) - Rs 45 crore

Retentions: Rohit Sharma (16.3), Jasprit Bumrah (18), Suryakumar Yadav (16.35), Tilak Varma (8), Hardik Pandya (16.35).