The wait is over! Nicholas Pooran, Mayank Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi alongside uncapped stars Mohsin Khan and Ayush Badoni headline our five retentions for the upcoming Indian Premier League 2025 season.

Each team had the option to retain up to five capped players, two uncapped players, and a total of six players across both categories. We retained Nicholas Pooran, Mayank Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi as capped players while Mohsin Khan and Ayush Badoni were retained in the uncapped category.

There were some tough calls to make that saw us release quality players like KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock, Krunal Pandya, Naveen-ul-Haq and Marcus Stoinis among others but we are set with a right-to-match (RTM) card and a ₹69 crore purse during the mega auction to bring them back.

Nicky P was our top retention pick for ₹21 crore. The West Indian star scored 499 runs in IPL 2024 at a strike rate of 178.21, earned a spot in the ICC T20 World Cup Team of the Tournament and went on to break records for most T20 sixes and most T20 runs in a calendar year.

Speedster Mayank Yadav lit up the IPL 2024 with lightning 150 kmph deliveries. After four fiery matches with us in IPL 2024, an injury cut his season short but that didn’t stop his momentum. He debuted for India later in the year and rattled Bangladesh’s batting order in the three-match T20 series. 

Mayank Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi were retained at the price of ₹11 crore each.

Bishnoi has been weaving spin magic since joining us as an original pick in 2022, making key contributions to our playoff runs in 2022 and 2023. Last season, he added another 10 wickets to his tally.

Mohsin and Badoni, both uncapped and bought for their base price in the 2022 auction, round out our retained lineup. They were secured for ₹4 crore each.

Left-arm pacer Mohsin Khan, standing tall at 6’3”, took 10 wickets in 10 matches in IPL 2024 and remains one of our most reliable options for clutch overs. He picked up 14 wickets at a sub-6 economy in his maiden IPL season in 2022 before a career-threatening injury sidelined him in 2023.

Ayush Badoni, who smashed 235 runs in IPL 2024 from 12 innings, recently played in the ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup for India A. His gutsy fifty against the Delhi Capitals that lifted us from 94/7 to 167/7 in the IPL 2024 was one of the knocks to remember.