IPL Auction Team Squad

The highly-awaited IPL 2025 mega auction is just a handful of days away. The two-day event will be taking place on November 24 and 25 in Saudi Arabia.

A total of 1574 players have registered themselves for the IPL 2025 mega auction although the list will be pruned after consultations between the IPL and the franchises. Even though the list will be pruned, there will be absolutely no shortage of star power during the auction as several big names will be going under the hammer.

A total of ten teams will be participating in the IPL once again. Below is the list of the ten teams that will be competing in IPL 2025.

IPL teams:

• Chennai Super Kings
• Delhi Capitals
• Gujarat Titans
• Kolkata Knight Riders
• Lucknow Super Giants
• Mumbai Indians
• Punjab Kings
• Rajasthan Royals
• Royal Challengers Bengaluru
• Sunrisers Hyderabad

The ten teams have retained a total of 46 players ahead of the auction. Of the 46 players, 36 are Indians and the remaining 10 are overseas. Only Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders have retained the full quota of six players. Gujarat Titans, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants have retained five players each.

Delhi Capitals have retained four players while Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Punjab Kings have retained three and two players respectively. 

Talking about the IPL squads, each franchise's squad can have a maximum of 25 players (minimum size is 18). Each squad can have a maximum of eight overseas players. Here is a list showing the number of slots available for each team to fill during the auction:

Chennai Super Kings: 20 slots (7 overseas)
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 22 slots (8 overseas)
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 20 slots (5 overseas)
Mumbai Indians: 20 slots (8 overseas)
Delhi Capitals: 21 slots (7 overseas)
Rajasthan Royals: 19 slots (7 overseas)
Punjab Kings: 23 slots (8 overseas)
Kolkata Knight Riders: 19 slots (6 overseas)
Gujarat Titans: 20 slots (7 overseas)
Lucknow Super Giants: 20 slots (7 overseas)

Here is the IPL squads after the retention lists were announced by the franchises:

Mumbai Indians:

Squad: Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Varma

Right-to-match (RTM) options: 1
Players eligible for RTM: One uncapped player

Chennai Super Kings:

Squad: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Matheesha Pathirana, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni

Right-to-match (RTM) options: 1
Players eligible for RTM: One capped or uncapped player

Royal Challengers Bangalore:

Squad: Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Yash Dayal

Right-to-match (RTM) options: 3
Players eligible for RTM: One uncapped player and two capped players, or three capped players

Delhi Capitals:

Squad: Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs, Abhishek Porel

Right-to-match (RTM) options: 2
Players eligible for RTM: One uncapped player and one capped player, or two capped players

Kolkata Knight Riders:

Squad: Rinku Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh

Right-to-match (RTM) options: None
Players eligible for RTM: None

Lucknow Super Giants:

Squad: Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni 

Right-to-match (RTM) options: 1
Players eligible for RTM: One capped player

Sunrisers Hyderabad:

Squad: Pat Cummins, Abhishek Sharma, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen, Travis Head

Right-to-match (RTM) options: 1
Players eligible for RTM: One uncapped player

Gujarat Titans:

Squad: Rashid Khan, Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan

Right-to-match (RTM) options: One
Players eligible for RTM: One capped player

Punjab Kings:

Squad: Shashank Singh, Prabhsimran Singh

Right-to-match (RTM) options: 4
Players eligible for RTM: Four capped players

Rajasthan Royals:

Squad: Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Sandeep Sharma

Right-to-match (RTM) options: None
Players eligible for RTM: None