
The Delhi Capitals will retain their skipper Rishabh Pant, followed by Prithvi Shaw, Axar Patel and Anrich Nortje. While Kieron Pollard is likely to be retained, the Mumbai side will also want to retain the services of their young gun Ishan Kishan. The Mumbai Indians will surely retain their skipper Rohit Sharma, followed by their pace bowler Jasprit Bumrah. Rajasthan Royals might retain 3 players in skipper Sanju Samson, and the England duo of Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler. RCB will retain their star batsman Virat Kohli, and with AB de Villiers announcing his retirement, the ‘Men in Red’ might opt to retain Yuzvendra Chahal and Glenn Maxwell. KKR are likely to retain the West Indian duo of Sunil Narine and Andre Russell. Who are the players who are likely to be retained by each of the franchises? According to the Indian Express, the Chennai Super Kings have stated that they will retain their skipper MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Ruturaj Gaikwad and one out of Moeen Ali and Sam Curran.

Players likely to be retained by each franchise And finally, if only 1 player is retained by an IPL franchise, then he will draw a salary of INR 14 Crores. If a franchise decided to retain 2 players, then the two players will be paid INR 14 and 10 Crores respectively. If a franchise retains 3 players, then the purse will be INR 33 Crores, with the first retained player getting INR 15 Crores, and with the second and third retained players getting INR 11 and 7 Crores respectively. The first retained player will get INR 16 Crores, the 2nd will be paid INR 12 Crores, the 3rd will get a sum of INR 8 Crores, and the 4th will be paid INR 6 Crores.

For e.g., if an IPL franchise decides to retain a maximum of 4 players ahead of the IPL auctions, then the total purse available for the 4 players will be INR 42 Crores. This will be based on the number of players retained by the IPL franchise.
