IPL 2022 Retention: Check Retained Player List of All Teams- CSK, RCB, MI, PBKS, KKR, SRH, RR, DC

IPL 2022 Retention: A total of 27 players were retained and remaining were released by their respective franchises in the IPL 2022 Retention event on November 30, 2021. All eight IPL franchises retained few of their star players and had to let go of others, including some key players under IPL 2022 Retention Policy. 

Chennai Super Kings in a much-awaited decision retained four players including their skipper MS Dhoni and star allrounder Ravindra Jadeja but had to release key players including Faf du Plessis and Dwayne Bravo. The Sunrisers Hyderabad also retained their skipper Kane Williamson and two uncapped players but had to let go of key bowler Rashid Khan.

The Punjab Kings retained two players including Mayank Agarwal and uncapped Arshdeep Singh and had to let go of skipper KL Rahul and key players including Chris Gayle. Punjab Kings head coach Anil Kumble clarified while announcing the names of retained players that they had wanted to retain KL Rahul but he decided to go into the auction and they respect his decision.

RCB in no surprise retained their former skipper Virat Kohli and two others including overseas player Glenn Maxwell but let go of key players including top bowlers Yuzuvendra Chahal and Harshal Patel. The Mumbai Indians also retained four players including their skipper Rohit Sharma and the experienced Kieron Pollard and released key players including Hardik Pandya. 

Other key players who were released include Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer,  R Ashwin, Shubman Gill, Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada and  Eoin Morgan. On the other hand, the three highest paid players in the current IPL 2022 Retention list include skippers of three teams- DC's Rishabh Pant, MI's Rohit Sharma and RR's Sanju Samson, who have been retained for 16 crores each.  Among the teams, Punjab Kings has the highest amount of money left for the mega IPL 2022 auction, while Delhi Capitals has the lowest amount left. 

Retained Player List of All Teams: Check Final List

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Retained Player List

Ravindra Jadeja- 16 crores

MS Dhoni- 12 crores

Ruturaj Gaikwad - crores

Moeen Ali- 8 crores

Delhi Capitals (DC) Retained Player List

Rishabh Pant - 16 crores

Axar Patel - 9 crores

Prithvi Shaw - 7.5 crores

Anrich Nortje - 6.5 crores

Mumbai Indians (MI) Retained Player List 

Rohit Sharma- 16 crores 

Jasprit Bumrah- 12 crores

Suryakumar Yadav - 8 crores

Kieron Pollard- 6 crores

Rajasthan Royals (RR) Retained Player List

Sanju Samson- 14 crores

Jos Butler- 10 crores

Yashasvi Jaiswal- 4 crores

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Retained Player List

Virat Kohli-15 crores

Glenn Maxwell -11 crores

Mohammed Siraj -7 crores 

Punjab Kings (PBKS) Retained Player List

Mayank Agarwal- 14 crores

Arshdeep Singh- 4 crores

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) Retained Player List

Kane Williamson- 14 crores

Abdul Samad- 4 crores (uncapped player)

Umran Malik - 4 crores (uncapped player)

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Retained Player List

Andre Russell- 12 crores

Varun Chakravarthy- 8 crores

Venkatesh Iyer- 8 crores

Sunil Narine- 6 crores

IPL 2022 players list: Key Released Players

PBKS-  KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Mohammed Shami, Nicholas Pooran, Shahrukh Khan, Moises Henriques

DC- Shreyas Iyer, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, R Ashwin, Kagiso Rabada, Steve Smith, Marcus Stoinis, Avesh Khan

RR- Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer

CSK - Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, Dwayne Bravo, Lungi Ngidi, Sam Curran, Suresh Raina

SRH- Rashid Khan, David Warner, Jonny Bairstow, Jason Holder, Jason Roy

RCB- Devdutt Padikkal, Harshal Patel, Yuzuvendra Chahal 

MI-  Quinton de Kock, Hardik Pandya, Trent Boult, Nathan Coulter Nile, James Neesham, Ishan Kishan

KKR- Eoin Morgan, Shubhman Gill, Shakib Al Hasan,  Lockie Ferguson,  Pat Cummins

Last IPL mega auction?

As per sources, the 2022 IPL auction will be the last mega-auction that the IPL intends to hold, as the franchises will be looking to pick well to build their future teams. The IPL 2022 tournament will involve ten teams with the induction of two new IPL teams - Lucknow and Ahmedabad.

The two new IPL teams are expected to get time till mid-December to select a maximum of four players- three Indians and one overseas player or two Indians and two overseas players ahead of the mega IPL 2022 auction planned towards the end of December or beginning of January.