List of Retained Players for IPL 2026: With the end of the deadline, all the IPL franchises have retained their players. The last date to retain players for IPL 2026 was 15 November. This time the most surprising retention was of Punjab Kings and Chennai Super Kings. Unlike its history, Punjab retained the maximum number of 21 players while 5-time champion Chennai retained 15 players while trading one.
Which player was retained from which team?
Now the question is how many players did which team retain? Which players were retained? So let’s look at it step by step.
Chennai Super Kings
MS Dhoni, Rituraj Gaikwad, Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brewis, Urvil Patel, Shivam Dubey, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Khalil Ahmed, Mukesh Choudhary, Nathan Ellis, Anshul Kamboj, Jamie Overton, Gurjapaneet Singh, Noor Ahmed, Shreyas Gopal and Sanju Samson (Trade)
Delhi Capitals
Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Karun Nair, Sameer Rizvi, KL Rahul, Tristan Stubbs, Abhishek Porel, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Madhav Tiwari, Tripurna Vijay, Ajay Mandal, Mukesh Kumar, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Dushmantha Chameera and Nitish Rana (Trade)
gujarat titans
Shubman Gill, Sai Sudarshan, Rashid Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Varun Chakraborty, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Rovman Powell, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Umran Malik.
Lucknow Super Giants
Rishabh Pant, Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Mayank Yadav, Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Matthew Bretzky, Himmat Singh, Nicholas Pooran, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, M Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh, Mohammed Shami and Arjun Tendulkar (both traded)
Mumbai Indians
Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Ryan Rickleton, Tilak Verma, Robin Minnes, Mitchell Santner, Naman Dheer, Will Jacques, Corbin Bosch, Rajangad Bawa, Trent Boult, Deepak Chahar, Allah Ghazanfar, Shardul Thakur, Sharfan Rutherford and Mayank Markande (all three traded)
punjab kings
Shreyas Iyer, Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Arshdeep Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Musheer Khan, Harnoor Singh, Vishnu Vinod, Shashank Singh, Payla Avinash, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Yanson, Azmatullah Omarzai, Suryansh Shedge, Mitchell Owen, Vijaykumar Vaishak, Yash Thakur, Xavier Bartlett, Lockie Ferguson, Yuzvendra Chahal. and Harpreet Brar
Rajasthan Royals
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ryan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Jofra Archer, Nandre Berger, Yudhveer Singh Charak, Quena Mafaka, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Shubham Dubey, Shimron Hetmyer, Luhan Driptorius, Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran (all three trades)
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Phil Salt, Josh Hazlewood, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyyash Sharma, Romario Shepherd, Tim David, Devdutt Padikkal, Jacob Batchel, Swapnil Singh, Rasikh Salaam, Yash Dayal, Nuwan Thushara and Abhinandan Singh.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Heinrich Klaasen, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravichandran Smaran, Kamindu Mendis, Harsh Dubey, Brydon Carse, Ishan Malinga, Harshal Patel, Jaydev Unadkat, Zeeshan Ansari and Aniket Verma.