IPL 2026 Retention List: Complete Team-Wise Player Prices and Squad Breakdown

IPL 2026 Retention List: The retention drama has unfolded as all Indian Premier League franchises finalized their retention lists by the 3 PM deadline on November 15, setting the stage for the December 16 mini-auction in Abu Dhabi. From blockbuster trades to surprising releases, here’s the comprehensive breakdown of every team’s retention strategy with exact player prices.

Key Retention Statistics

Category	Details
Most Expensive Retention	Rishabh Pant (LSG) – ₹27 Crore
Highest Paid Indian	Rishabh Pant – ₹27 Crore
Most Retentions	Punjab Kings – 21 Players
Fewest Retentions	Kolkata Knight Riders – 13 Players
Biggest Surprise Release	Andre Russell (KKR after 12 years)
Auction Date	December 16, 2025, Abu Dhabi

Mumbai Indians – Retained Players (16)

Player Name	Role	Retention Price
Jasprit Bumrah	Bowler	₹18.00 crore
Hardik Pandya (C)	All-rounder	₹16.35 crore
Suryakumar Yadav	Batter	₹16.35 crore
Rohit Sharma	Batter	₹16.30 crore
Trent Boult ✈️	Bowler	₹12.50 crore
Deepak Chahar	Bowler	₹9.25 crore
Tilak Varma	Batter	₹8.00 crore
Naman Dhir	All-rounder	₹5.25 crore
AM Ghazanfar ✈️	Bowler	₹4.80 crore
Mitchell Santner ✈️	All-rounder	₹2.00 crore
Ryan Rickelton ✈️	Batter/WK	₹1.00 crore
Robin Minz	All-rounder	₹65 lakh
Raj Angad Bawa	All-rounder	₹30 lakh
Ashwani Kumar	Bowler	₹30 lakh
Corbin Bosch ✈️	Bowler	₹30 lakh
TOTAL SPENT		₹117.25 crore
Purse Remaining		₹2.75 crore

Chennai Super Kings – Retained Players (16)

Player Name	Role	Retention Price
Sanju Samson (Traded)	Batter/WK	₹18.00 crore
Ruturaj Gaikwad (C)	Batter	₹18.00 crore
Shivam Dube	All-rounder	₹12.00 crore
Noor Ahmad ✈️	Bowler	₹10.00 crore
Khaleel Ahmed	Bowler	₹4.80 crore
MS Dhoni	WK/Batter	₹4.00 crore
Anshul Kamboj	Bowler	₹3.40 crore
Dewald Brevis ✈️	Batter	₹2.20 crore
Gurjapneet Singh	Bowler	₹2.20 crore
Nathan Ellis ✈️	Bowler	₹2.00 crore
Jamie Overton ✈️	All-rounder	₹1.50 crore
Ayush Mhatre	Batter	₹30 lakh
Mukesh Choudhary	Bowler	₹30 lakh
Shreyas Gopal	Bowler	₹30 lakh
TOTAL SPENT		₹76.60 crore
Purse Remaining		₹43.40 crore

Royal Challengers Bengaluru – Retained Players (17)

Player Name	Role	Retention Price
Virat Kohli	Batter	₹21.00 crore
Josh Hazlewood ✈️	Bowler	₹12.50 crore
Phil Salt ✈️	Batter/WK	₹11.50 crore
Rajat Patidar (C)	Batter	₹11.00 crore
Jitesh Sharma	WK/Batter	₹11.00 crore
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	Bowler	₹10.75 crore
Rasikh Salam Dar	Bowler	₹6.00 crore
Krunal Pandya	All-rounder	₹5.75 crore
Yash Dayal	Bowler	₹5.00 crore
Tim David ✈️	All-rounder	₹3.00 crore
Jacob Bethell ✈️	All-rounder	₹2.60 crore
Suyash Sharma	Bowler	₹2.60 crore
Devdutt Padikkal	Batter	₹2.00 crore
Swapnil Singh	All-rounder	₹50 lakh
Abhinandan Singh	Bowler	₹30 lakh
TOTAL SPENT		₹103.60 crore
Purse Remaining		₹16.40 crore

Kolkata Knight Riders – Retained Players (13)

Player Name	Role	Retention Price
Rinku Singh	Batter	₹13.00 crore
Varun Chakaravarthy	Bowler	₹12.00 crore
Sunil Narine ✈️	All-rounder	₹12.00 crore
Ramandeep Singh	All-rounder	₹4.00 crore
Harshit Rana	Bowler	₹4.00 crore
Angkrish Raghuvanshi	Batter	₹3.00 crore
Vaibhav Arora	Bowler	₹1.80 crore
Ajinkya Rahane	Batter	₹1.50 crore
Rovman Powell ✈️	All-rounder	₹1.50 crore
Manish Pandey	Batter	₹75 lakh
Umran Malik	Bowler	₹75 lakh
Anukul Roy	All-rounder	₹40 lakh
Arjun Tendulkar (Traded)	All-rounder	₹30 lakh
TOTAL SPENT		₹55.70 crore
Purse Remaining		₹64.30 crore

Punjab Kings – Retained Players (21)

Player Name	Role	Retention Price
Shreyas Iyer (C)	Batter	₹26.75 crore
Arshdeep Singh	Bowler	₹18.00 crore
Yuzvendra Chahal	Bowler	₹18.00 crore
Marco Jansen ✈️	All-rounder	₹11.25 crore
Marcus Stoinis ✈️	All-rounder	₹11.00 crore
Shashank Singh	All-rounder	₹5.50 crore
Nehal Wadhera	Batter	₹4.20 crore
Prabhsimran Singh	WK/Batter	₹4.00 crore
Priyansh Arya	Batter	₹3.80 crore
Azmatullah Omarzai ✈️	All-rounder	₹2.40 crore
Lockie Ferguson ✈️	Bowler	₹2.00 crore
Vijaykumar Vyshak	Bowler	₹1.80 crore
Yash Thakur	Bowler	₹1.60 crore
Harpreet Brar	All-rounder	₹1.50 crore
Vishnu Vinod	WK	₹95 lakh
Xavier Bartlett ✈️	Bowler	₹80 lakh
Suryansh Shedge	All-rounder	₹30 lakh
Pyla Avinash	Bowler	₹30 lakh
Musheer Khan	Batter	₹30 lakh
Harnoor Singh	Batter	₹30 lakh
TOTAL SPENT		₹108.50 crore
Purse Remaining		₹11.50 crore

Lucknow Super Giants – Retained Players (21)

Player Name	Role	Retention Price
Rishabh Pant	WK/Batter	₹27.00 crore
Mohsin Khan	Bowler	₹23.00 crore
Nicholas Pooran ✈️	WK/Batter	₹18.00 crore
Mayank Yadav	Bowler	₹14.00 crore
Ayush Badoni	All-rounder	₹14.00 crore
Avesh Khan	Bowler	₹9.75 crore
Akash Deep	Bowler	₹8.00 crore
Abdul Samad	All-rounder	₹4.20 crore
Mitchell Marsh ✈️	All-rounder	₹3.40 crore
Shahbaz Ahmed	All-rounder	₹2.40 crore
Aiden Markram ✈️	Batter	₹2.00 crore
M. Siddharth	Bowler	₹75 lakh
Matthew Breetzke ✈️	Batter	₹75 lakh
Himmat Singh	All-rounder	₹30 lakh
Aryan Juyal	WK	₹30 lakh
Digvesh Singh	All-rounder	₹30 lakh
Akash Singh	Bowler	₹30 lakh
Prince Yadav	Bowler	₹30 lakh
Yuvraj Chaudhary	Bowler	₹30 lakh
Rajvardhan Hangargekar	All-rounder	₹30 lakh
Arshin Kulkarni	Batter	₹30 lakh
TOTAL SPENT		₹97.05 crore
Purse Remaining		₹22.95 crore

Rajasthan Royals – Retained Players (16)

Player Name	Role	Retention Price
Yashasvi Jaiswal	Batter	₹18.00 crore
Riyan Parag	All-rounder	₹14.00 crore
Dhruv Jurel	WK/Batter	₹14.00 crore
Jofra Archer ✈️	Bowler	₹12.50 crore
Shimron Hetmyer ✈️	Batter	₹11.00 crore
Tushar Deshpande	Bowler	₹6.50 crore
Sandeep Sharma	Bowler	₹4.00 crore
Nandre Burger ✈️	Bowler	₹3.50 crore
Kwena Maphaka ✈️	Bowler	₹1.50 crore
Vaibhav Suryavanshi	Batter	₹1.10 crore
Shubham Dubey	All-rounder	₹80 lakh
Yudhvir Singh	All-rounder	₹35 lakh
Lhuan-dre Pretorius ✈️	Bowler	₹30 lakh
Plus Traded Players:
Ravindra Jadeja (from CSK)	All-rounder	₹14.00 crore
Sam Curran ✈️ (from CSK)	All-rounder	₹18.00 crore
Donovan Ferreira ✈️ (from DC)	All-rounder	Price TBD
TOTAL SPENT		₹103.95 crore
Purse Remaining		₹16.05 crore

Sunrisers Hyderabad – Retained Players (18)

Player Name	Role	Retention Price
Heinrich Klaasen ✈️	WK/Batter	₹23.00 crore
Pat Cummins ✈️	All-rounder	₹18.00 crore
Travis Head ✈️	Batter	₹14.00 crore
Abhishek Sharma	All-rounder	₹14.00 crore
Ishan Kishan	WK/Batter	₹11.25 crore
Harshal Patel	Bowler	₹8.00 crore
Nitish Kumar Reddy	All-rounder	₹6.00 crore
Abhinav Manohar	Batter	₹3.20 crore
Simarjeet Singh	Bowler	₹1.50 crore
Eshan Malinga ✈️	Bowler	₹1.20 crore
Jaydev Unadkat	Bowler	₹1.00 crore
Kamindu Mendis ✈️	All-rounder	₹75 lakh
Wiaan Mulder ✈️	All-rounder	₹75 lakh
Zeeshan Ansari	Bowler	₹40 lakh
Aniket Verma	Batter	₹30 lakh
Ravichandran Smaran	Batter	₹30 lakh
Harsh Dubey	Bowler	₹30 lakh
Atharva Taide	Batter	₹30 lakh
TOTAL SPENT		₹94.50 crore
Purse Remaining		₹25.50 crore

Gujarat Titans – Retained Players (20)

Player Name	Role	Retention Price
Rashid Khan ✈️	Bowler	₹18.00 crore
Shubman Gill (C)	Batter	₹16.50 crore
Jos Buttler ✈️	WK/Batter	₹15.75 crore
Mohammed Siraj	Bowler	₹12.25 crore
Kagiso Rabada ✈️	Bowler	₹10.75 crore
Prasidh Krishna	Bowler	₹9.50 crore
Sai Sudharsan	Batter	₹8.50 crore
Shahrukh Khan	All-rounder	₹4.00 crore
Rahul Tewatia	All-rounder	₹4.00 crore
Washington Sundar	All-rounder	₹3.20 crore
Sai Kishore	Bowler	₹2.00 crore
Glenn Phillips ✈️	All-rounder	₹2.00 crore
Arshad Khan	Bowler	₹1.30 crore
Gurnoor Brar	Bowler	₹1.30 crore
Jayant Yadav	All-rounder	₹75 lakh
Ishant Sharma	Bowler	₹75 lakh
Karim Kushagra	WK	₹65 lakh
Anuj Rawat	WK/Batter	₹30 lakh
Nishant Sindhu	All-rounder	₹30 lakh
Manav Suthar	Bowler	₹30 lakh
TOTAL SPENT		₹107.10 crore
Purse Remaining		₹12.90 crore

Delhi Capitals – Retained Players (17)

Player Name	Role	Retention Price
Axar Patel	All-rounder	₹16.50 crore
KL Rahul	Batter	₹14.00 crore
Kuldeep Yadav	Bowler	₹13.25 crore
Mitchell Starc ✈️	Bowler	₹11.75 crore
T Natarajan	Bowler	₹10.75 crore
Tristan Stubbs ✈️	All-rounder	₹10.00 crore
Mukesh Kumar	Bowler	₹8.00 crore
Abhishek Porel	WK	₹4.00 crore
Ashutosh Sharma	All-rounder	₹3.80 crore
Sameer Rizvi	All-rounder	₹95 lakh
Dushmanta Chameera ✈️	Bowler	₹75 lakh
Karun Nair	Batter	₹50 lakh
Vipraj Nigam	All-rounder	₹50 lakh
Madhav Tiwari	Batter	₹40 lakh
Tripurana Vijay	Bowler	₹30 lakh
Ajay Mandal	All-rounder	₹30 lakh
Plus Traded Player:
Nitish Rana (from RR)	Batter	₹4.20 crore
TOTAL SPENT		₹98.20 crore
Purse Remaining		₹21.80 crore

Major IPL 2026 Trade Deals

Player	From	To	Price
Sanju Samson	Rajasthan Royals	Chennai Super Kings	₹18 crore
Ravindra Jadeja	Chennai Super Kings	Rajasthan Royals	₹14 crore
Sam Curran	Chennai Super Kings	Rajasthan Royals	₹18 crore
Mohammed Shami	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Lucknow Super Giants	₹10 crore
Shardul Thakur	Lucknow Super Giants	Mumbai Indians	₹2 crore
Sherfane Rutherford	Gujarat Titans	Mumbai Indians	₹2.60 crore
Nitish Rana	Rajasthan Royals	Delhi Capitals	₹4.20 crore
Arjun Tendulkar	Mumbai Indians	Lucknow Super Giants	₹30 lakh
Donovan Ferreira	Delhi Capitals	Rajasthan Royals	Price TBD

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