IPL 2026 Retentions: Full List of Retained and Released Players

The IPL 2026 retention list, revealing the retained and released players by every Indian Premier League team ahead of the upcoming auction, was officially announced.

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IPL 2026 Retentions: Full List of Retained and Released Players

IPL 2026 Player Retentions: Some major trades have taken place ahead of the retention deadline for IPL 2026. On Saturday, the IPL confirmed the trades of eight players, including Ravindra Jadeja, Sanju Samson, and Mohammed Shami. All franchises have now announced their lists of retained and released players.

This time, there are no restrictions on the number of players a franchise can retain. This means each franchise can retain as many players as they wish, and many teams have done so. The fees for players released have been added to the franchise's auction purse, which they will use during the auction.

All Retained and Released Players for IPL 2026

1. Mumbai Indians

Retained: Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Robin Mings, Ryan Rickelton, Hardik Pandya, Naman Dheer, Mitchell Santner, Will Jacks, Corbin Bosch, Shardul Thakur, Raj Bawa, Sherfane Rutherford, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, Deepak Chahar, Ashwini Kumar, Raghu Sharma, Allah Ghazanfar, Mayank Markande.

Released: Satyanarayana Raju, Reece Topley, KA Sreejith, Karn Sharma, Bevon Jacobs, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Lizd William, Vignesh Puthur, Arjun Tendulkar (traded).

2. Chennai Super Kings

Retained: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brewis, MS Dhoni, Urvil Patel, Sanju Samson (trade), Shivam Dubey, Jamie Overton, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Noor Ahmed, Khaleel Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjanpreet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Shreyas Gopal, Murali Vijay, Mukesh Choudhary.

Released: Rahul Tripathi, Vansh Bedi, C. Andre Siddharth, Devon Conway, Ravindra Jadeja (trade), Sam Curran (trade), Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Shaik Rashid, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Mathisha Pathirana, Rachin Ravindra.

3. Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Retained: Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Jacob Bethell, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nuwan Thushara, Rasikh Salam, Abhinandan Singh, Suyash Sharma.

Released: Swastik Chikara, Mayank Agarwal, Tim Seifert, Liam Livingstone, Manoj Bhandage, Lungi Ngidi, Blessing Muzarabani, Mohit Rathee.

4. Kolkata Knight Riders

Retained: Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Sunil Narine, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Umran Malik.

Released: Lovneeth Sisodia, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Moeen Ali, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Mayank Markande (traded), Chetan Sakaria, Anrich Nortje, Spencer Johnson.

5. Rajasthan Royals

Retained: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Shubham Dube, Luan Drees-Pretorius, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Ravindra Jadeja (trade), Sam Curran (trade), De Ferreira, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Yudhvir Singh, Quen Mphaka, Nandre Burger.

Released: Kunal Singh Rathore, Nitish Rana, Sanju Samson (trade), Vanindu Hasaranga, Mahesh Teekshna, Fazalhaq Farooqui, Akash Madhwal, Ashok Sharma, Kumar Karthikeya.

6. Gujarat Titans

Retained: Shubman Gill, Sai Sudarshan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Josh Butler, Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Gurnur Singh Brar, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav.

Released: Sherfane Rutherford (traded), Mahipal Lomror, Karim Janat, Dasun Shanaka, Gerald Coetzee, Kulwant Khejroliya.

7. Punjab Kings

Retained: Shreyas Iyer, Nehal Wadhera, Priyansh Arya, Shashank Singh, Pyala Avinash, Harnoor Pannu, Harpreet Brar, Mushir Khan, Prabhsimran Singh, Vishnu Vinod, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Yuzvendra Chahal, Suryansh Shedge, Mitchell Owen, Arshdeep Singh, Vishak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Xavier Bartlett, Lockie Ferguson.

Released: Josh Inglis, Aaron Hardie, Glenn Maxwell, Kuldeep Sen, Praveen Dubey.

8. Lucknow Super Giants

Retained: Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Aiden Markram, Matthew Brixton, Himmat Singh, Rishabh Pant, M Siddharth, Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mohammed Shami (trade), Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh, Arjun Tendulkar (trade).

Released: Aryan Juyal, David Miller, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Rajwardhan Hengarkar, Shardul Thakur (trade), Akash Deep, Ravi Bishnoi, Shamar Joseph.

9. Sunrisers Hyderabad

Retained: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, R Samaran, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Bryden Carse, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari.

Released: Abhinav Manohar, Atharva Taide, Sachin Baby, Mohammed Shami (traded), Wiaan Mulder, Simarjeet Singh, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa.

10. Delhi Capitals

Retained: Tristan Stubbs, Sameer Rizvi, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Abhishek Porel, Axar Patel (captain), Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraaj Nigam, Madhav Tiwary, Tripurana Vijay, Ajay Mandal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, T. Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, D Chameera, Nitish Rana (traded in)

Released: Faf du Plessis, Jake Fraser McGurk, Donovan Ferreira (traded in), Sediqullah Atal, Manwanth Kumar, Mohit Sharma, Darshan Nalkande.

Purse Available to all 10 Teams

• Lucknow Super Giants - Rs 22.95 crore

• Rajasthan Royals - Rs 16.05 crore

• Sunrisers Hyderabad - Rs 25.5 crore

• RCB - Rs 16.4 crore

• KKR - Rs 64.3 crore

• Mumbai Indians - Rs 2.75 crore

• CSK - Rs 43.4 crore

• Delhi Capitals - Rs 21.18 crore

• Gujarat Titans - Rs 12.9 crore

• Punjab Kings - Rs 11.5 crore.