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PremiumIPL 2025 Retention Live Updates: The whole cricketing world is abuzz with the IPL 2025 Retention as the deadline draws near. All the 10 franchises will get time till 5 PM IST on October 31. 2024 to finalise their core group of players they want to retain from the previous season. All eyes will be on five-time IPL-winning former Chennai Super Kings (CSK) captain MS Dhoni, as the legendary wicketkeeper is likely to be retained as an uncapped player. Any capped player will become uncapped if he has not played a single international match in the last five years. The likes Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma will be in focus too. While Pant is rumoured to be leaving Delhi Capitals, Rahul isn't on the retainers list of Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), as per reports. However, IPL 2024 title-winning captain Shreyas Iyer is reportedly to part ways with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). As far as Rajasthan Royals are concerned, they are expected to retain four players and Jos Buttler isn't a part of that list. With Ricky Ponting as their new head coach, Punjab Kings (PBKS) might retain Arshdeep Singh and Jonny Bairstow among the capped players. All eyes will be on Mumbai Indians (MI) too.
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Delhi Capitals are set to release captain Rishabh Pant as things didn't materialize. That means, the wicketkeeper-batter will be a hot cake in the mega auction. Meanwhile, reports have also emerged that, KKR's IPL 2024-winning skipper Shreyas Iyer is on Delhi Capitals' radar.
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Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav are certain to be retained by MI. It remains to be seen whether they keep Rohit Sharma or release the five-time champion skipper.
Ruturaj Gaikwad, MS Dhoni and Matheesha Pathirana are certain to be retained by CSK. However, there are doubts over Ravindra Jadeja.
2022 champions Gujarat Titans are expected to keep their core intact which includes Shubman Gill, Rashid Khan, Sai Sudarshan, Shahrukh Khan and Rahul Tewatia. That means the likes of Mohammed Shami, Kane Williamson, etc go into the auction pool.
Expectedly, RCB are set to retain Virat Kohli. However, there is still doubts over Faf du Plessis as the management is considering releasing the South African. In case, Du Plessis goes into the auction pool, Kohli might take up the captaincy duties.
Three-time champions KKR is set to release captain Shreyas Iyer. The combination of Iyer and Gautam Gambhir clicked instantly as they clinched the title in IPL 2024. However, with Gambhir taking up national duty, things didn't materialize between Iyer and KKR management. KKR are likely to retain Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh.
Based on reports, LSG aren't going to retain captain KL Rahul who led the team for three years. Instead, LSG have signed Nicolas Pooran on dotted lines ahead of the mega auction. The other likely retainers are Mayank Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan and Ayush Badoni.
The big day is finally here. The deadline for all the 10 teams to submit their list of released and retained players is 5 PM IST today. Stay tuned to this place for all the live updates on IPL 2025 Retention announcement.
