MI IPL 2025 Retention: Hardik Pandya and Rohit Sharma retained; Check Mumbai Indians' retained player list here

Ahead of the mega IPL auctions, Mumbai Indians has retaining Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, and Tilak Varma.

The decision on who will captain the team for IPL 2025 is still pending.

The Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises retention list was issued on Thursday. This will be the starting point of the hype, spice and buzz that the cash-rich league brings every year.


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Thursday, October 31 was the deadline by which all the franchises were supposed to submit the list of their retained players ahead of the mega auction. As per the rules, each team can retain six players, out of which a maximum of five can be capped and two uncapped. This can be either via retention or by using the Right to Match (RTM) option.

The auction purse for the franchiseswas set at Rs 120 Crore for IPL 2025. The total salary cap will now consist of auction purse, incremental performance pay and match fees. Previously in 2024, the total salary cap (auction purse + incremental performance pay) was Rs. 110 Crs which will now be Rs. 146 Crs (2025), Rs. 151 Crs (2026) and Rs. 157 Crs (2027). A match fee has been introduced for the first time in the history of IPL. Each Playing member (Including the Impact Player) will get a match fee of Rs 7.5 Lakhs per match. This will be in addition to his contracted amount.

The IPL's governing body had set minimum deductions from the purse for each player retained, with Rs 18 crores for the first player, Rs 14 crores for the second, Rs 11 crores for the third, Rs 18 crores for the fourth, Rs 14 crores for the fifth and Rs 4 crores for an uncapped player. Franchises are free to give their players more or less of these amounts to the players retained by them.