We are on he other side of the IPL 2026 player retention deadline. That means all the team members have a base structure, with which they will go into the auction next month. Today, we will look at the retentions that each team made, the races that were made so far, and some big releases.
First up, let us look at all the retentions made by all the teams for IPL 2026 –
IPL 2026 All Retentions And Trades
Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad, MS Dhoni, Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brevis, Urvil Patel, Shivam Dubey, Jamie Overton, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Noor Ahmad, Shreyas Gopal, Khaleel Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Nathan Ellis, Mukesh Choudhary, Gurjapneet Singh, Sanju Samson (Tr)
Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Tristan Stubbs, Sameer Rizvi, Karun Nair, Abhishek Porel, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Tripurna Vijay, Madhav Tiwari, Ajay Mandal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera, Nitish Rana (Tr)
Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler, Shahrukh Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Glenn Phillips, Rahul Tewatia, Washington Sundar, Jayant Yadav, Nishant Sindhu, Rashid Khan, Sai Kishore, Mohammed Siraj, Kagiso Rabadam, Ishant Sharma, Prasidh Krishna, Gurnoor Brar, Arshad Khan, Manav Suthar
Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane, Rinku Singh, Maneesh Pandey, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Umran Malik
Lucknow Super Giants: Rishabh Pant, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Himmat Singh, Aiden Markram, Abdul Samad, Matthew Breetzke, Shahbaz Ahmed, M Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Price Yadav, Akash Singh, Mohammed Shami (Tr), Arjun Tendulkar (Tr)
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Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Jasprit Bumrah, Ryan Rickelton, Will Jacks, Corbin Bosch, Naman Dhir, Mitchell Santner, Raj Bawa, Trent Boult, Deepak Chahar, Ashwani Kumar, Raghu Sharma, Shardul Thakur (Tr), Sherfane Rutherford (Tr), Mayank Markande (Tr)
Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer, Prabhsimran Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Marcus Stoinis, Priyansh Arya, Shashank Singh, Pyla Avinash Narnoor Pannu, Musheer Khan, Vishnu Vinod, Mitchell Owen, Marco Jansen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Suryansh Shegde, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harpreet Brarm Arshdeep Singh, Yash Thakur, Xavier Bartlett, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Lockie Ferguson
Rajasthan Royals: Yashavi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Lhuan dre Pretorius, Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel, Shubahm Dube, Riyan Parag, Jofra Archer, TUshar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Nandre Burger, Kwena Maphaka, Yudhvir Singh, Ravindra Jadeja (Tr), Sam Curran (Tr), Donovan Ferreira (Tr)
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli, Jitesh Sharma, Phil Salt, Devdutt Padikkal, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Swapnil Singh, Jacob Bethell, Romario Shepherd, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazelwood, Yash Dayal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nuwan Thushara, Rasikh Salam, Abhinandan Singh
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, R Smaran, Aniket Verma, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Brydon Carse, Harshal Patel, Zeeshan Ansari, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga
Now, let’s talk about some massive releases from each team. CSK released Rachin Ravindra, which was obviously a surprise. They also traded away franchise legend Ravindra Jadeja. Delhi Capitals kept much of their squad, but released Faf du Plessis and Jake Fraser-McGurk. GT’s biggest release was trading away Sherfane Rutherford.
KKR made some massive releases, letting go of Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Quinton de Kock, and Rahmanullah Gurbaz. Meanwhile, LSG’s release of Ravi Bishnoi, David Miller, and the trading of Shardul Thakur were big news.
The Mumbai Indians kept their strong squad together, with Reece Topley being their biggest release. The Punjab Kings, too, retained almost their entire squad, but released big names like Glenn Maxwell and Josh Inglis. As for the Rajasthan Royals, they released the Sri Lankan spin duo of Wanindu Hasaranga and Maheesh Theekshana. They also traded away their captain, Sanju Samson.
The release of Liam Livingstone was the biggest news out of the camp of defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru. And lastly, SRH released the likes of Adam Zampa, Abhinav Manohar, and traded away Mohammed Shami.
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And finally, here are all the trades that happened right before the retention deadline of IPL 2026:
Sanju Samson to Chennai Super Kings from Rajasthan Royals in exchange for Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran.
Shardul Thakur to Mumbai Indians from Lucknow Super Giants for INR 2 crore.
Sherfane Rutherford to Mumbai Indians from Gujarat Titans for INR 2.6 crore.
Arjun Tendulkar to Lucknow Super Giants from Mumbai Indians for INR 30 lakh.
Mohammed Shami to Lucknow Super Giants from Sunrisers Hyderabad for INR 10. crore.
Mayank Markande to Mumbai Indians from Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 30 lakh.
Nitish Rana to Delhi Capitals from Rajasthan Royals for INR 4.2 crore.
Donovan Ferreira to Rajasthan Royals from Delhi Capitals for INR 1 crore.
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