Winning captain Shreyas Iyer dropped, Rohit Sharma retained; Big news for IPL 2025

MUMBAI: Various teams have released the list of retained players ahead of the 2025 IPL season. Indian captain Rohit Sharma was retained by Mumbai Indians despite his earlier strife with the team management. At the same time defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders released their skipper Shreyas Iyer.

Rishabh Pant, who has been leading Delhi Capitals for a long time, parted ways with the club. Lucknow Supergiants skipper KL Rahul has been dropped from the team. While RCB skipper Faf du Plessis and superstar Glenn Maxwell were left out, only Yash Dayal and Rajat Patidar were retained in addition to Virat Kohli.

Punjab Kings retained only Shashank Singh and Prabhsimran Singh, in an attempt to shipshape the team.

Mumbai Indians: Jasprit Bumrah, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Tilak Verma

Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ravindra Jadeja, Matheesha Pathirana, Shivam Dubey, MS Dhoni

Kolkata Knight Riders: Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakraborty, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Heinrich Klaasen, Pat Cummins, Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Nitish Kumar Reddy

Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson, Yashaswi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Sandeep Sharma

Gujarat Titans: Subhman Gill, Rashid Khan, Sai Sudarshan, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Yash Dayal

Lucknow Super Giants: Nicholas Pooran, Mayank Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni

Punjab Kings: Shashank Singh, Prabhsimran Singh

Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs, Abhishek Porel