Who is the most expensive retained player before IPL 2025 Retentions
Before the IPL 2025 mega-auction, the 10 franchises will announce their player retentions on the deadline day, October 31, Thursday.
A franchise is allowed to retain up to six players, either during the retention phase or by using the Right-To-Match (RTM) card in the mega auction. Franchises have the flexibility to use a combination of outright retentions and RTM cards to retain up to six players from their 2024 squad.
Who is the most expensive retained player ever?
In 2017, ahead of the IPL 2018 auction, Royal Challengers Bengaluru retained Virat Kohli for Rs. 17 crore, making him the most expensive player retention in IPL history.
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This was two crores higher than the price cap for the top-most retention slot. But in 2022, Kohli took a Rs. two crore pay cut and was retained for Rs. 15 crore.
Kohli’s record will be broken in the 2024 retention cycle, with the price slab for the top most retention set at Rs. 18 crore. There are reports that Sunrisers Hyderabad will retain Heinrich Klaasen for Rs. 23 crore, which should help him displace Kohli from the top spot in this list.
