IPL 2025 Released Players: Full List of Players Let Go By CSK, RCB, MI, KKR, RR, DC, SRH, LSH, PBKS & GT

The deadline day for all the 10 Indian Premier League teams to announce their retention and released players list has arrived, and some top names have been let go by their franchises ahead of the IPL 2025 Mega Auction.

All the released players and the remaining players who will register their names for the IPL Mega Auction, likely to be held in the last week of November, will go under the hammer across the two-day bidding process.

While some players may have been let go for their poor performances, many franchises have been forced to release their key players as the player regulations announced by the IPL Governing Council allows a team to retain only a total of 6 players from their 2024 squad.

Teams like Sunrisers Hyderabad, Kolkata Knight Riders, Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians would have preferred to have more players retained, but they will have to buy some of their stars at the auction.

IPL 2025 Released Players List

Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant and Jos Buttler are some of the surprise names being allowed to enter the auction by their respective franchise. There are also more names that will need to find new homes or will hope to bought back by their teams at the auction.

Here is a look at the released players list as per reports from major media outlets. The list was officially released after 5:30 PM IST on Thursday, October 31:

Chennai Super Kings Retention: CSK Released Players List 2025

1. Ajay Mandal
2. Ajinkya Rahane
3. Deepak Chahar
4. Devon Conway (New Zealand)
5. Maheesh Theekshana (Sri Lanka)
6. Mitchell Santner (New Zealand)
7. Moeen Ali (England)
8. Mukesh Choudhary
9. Nishant Sindhu
10. Prashant Solanki
11. Rajvardhan Hangargekar
12. Shaik Rasheed
13. Simarjeet Singh
14. Tushar Deshpande
15. Rachin Ravindra (New Zealand)
16. Shardul Thakur
17. Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand)
18. Sameer Rizvi
19. Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh)
20. Avanish Rao Aravelly

Delhi Capitals Retention: DC Released Players List 2025

1. Anrich Nortje (South Africa)
2. David Warner (Australia)
3. Ishant Sharma
4. Lalit Yadav
5. Lungisani Ngidi (South Africa)
6. Mitchell Marsh (Australia)
7. Mukesh Kumar
8. Pravin Dubey
9. Prithvi Shaw
10. Rishabh Pant
11. Syed Khaleel Ahmed
12. Vicky Ostwal
13. Yash Dhull
14. Harry Brook (England)
15. Ricky Bhui
16. Kumar Kushagra
17. Rasikh Dar
18. Jhye Richardson (Australia)
19. Sumit Kumar
20. Shai Hope (West Indies)
21. Swastik Chhikara

Gujarat Titans Retention: GT Released Players List 2025

1. Abhinav Manohar
2. Darshan Nalkande
3. David Miller (South Africa)
4. Jayant Yadav
5. Joshua Little (Ireland)
6. Kane Williamson (New Zealand)
7. Matthew Wade (Australia)
8. Mohammed Shami
9. Mohit Sharma
10. Noor Ahmad (Afghanistan)
11. R Sai Kishore
12. Vijay Shankar
13. Wriddhiman Saha
14. Azmatullah Omarzai (Afghanistan)
15. Umesh Yadav
16. Sushant Mishra
17. Kartik Tyagi
18. Manav Suthar
19. Spencer Johnson (Australia)
20. Robin Minz

Kolkata Knight Riders Retention: KKR Released Players List 2025

1. Nitish Rana
2. Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Afghanistan)
3. Shreyas Iyer
4. Jason Roy
5. Suyash Sharma
6. Anukul Roy
7. Venkatesh Iyer
8. Vaibhav Arora
9. KS Bharat
10. Chetan Sakariya
11. Mitchell Starc (Australia)
12. Angkrish Raghuvanshi
13. Sherfane Rutherford (West Indies)
14. Manish Pandey
15. Mujeeb Ur Rehman (Afghanistan)
16. Gus Atkinson (England)
17. Sakib Hussain

Lucknow Super Giants Retention: LSG Released Players List 2025

1. KL Rahul
2. Quinton de Kock
3. Kyle Mayers
4. Marcus Stoinis
5. Deepak Hooda
6. Naveen ul Haq
7. Krunal Pandya
8. Yudhvir Singh
9. Prerak Mankad
10. Yash Thakur
11. Amit Mishra
12. Mark Wood (England)
13. K Gowtham
14. Devdutt Padikkal
15. Shivam Mavi
16. Arshin Kulkarni
17. M Siddharth
18. Ashton Turner (Australia)
19. David Willey (England)
20. Mohammed Arshad Khan

Mumbai Indians Retention: MI Released Players List 2025

1. Dewald Brevis (South Africa)
2. Ishan Kishan
3. Tim David (Australia)
4. Vishnu Vinod
5. Arjun Tendulkar
6. Shams Mulani
7. Nehal Wadhera
8. Kumar Kartikeya
9. Piyush Chawla
10. Akash Madhwal
11. Jason Behrendorff (Australia)
12. Romario Shepherd (West Indies)
13. Gerald Coetzee (South Africa)
14. Dilshan Madushanka (Sri Lanka)
15. Shreyas Gopal
16. Nuwan Thushara (Sri Lanka)
17. Naman Dhir
18. Anshul Kamboj
19. Mohammad Nabi (Afghanistan)
20. Shivalik Sharma

Punjab Kings Retention: PBKS Released Players List 2025

1. Shikhar Dhawan - Retired
2. Liam Livingstone (England)
3. Jonny Bairstow (England)
4. Jitesh Sharma
5. Shivam Singh
6. Rahul Chahar
7. Arshdeep Singh
8. Harpreet Bhatia
9. Harpreet Brar
10. Atharva Taide
11. Vidwath Kaverappa
12. Rishi Dhawan
13. Kagiso Rabada (South Africa)
14. Sam Curran (England)
15. Nathan Ellis (Australia)
16. Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe)
17. Harshal Patel
18. Chris Woakes
19. Ashutosh Sharma
20. Vishwanath Pratap Singh
21. Tanay Thyagarajan
22. Prince Choudhary
23. Rilee Rossouw (South Africa)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Retention: RCB Released Players List 2025

1. Faf du Plessis (South Africa)
2. Glenn Maxwell (Australia)
3. Mohammed Siraj
4. Anuj Rawat
5. Dinesh Karthik
6. Suyash Prabhudessai
7. Will Jacks (England)
8. Mahipal Lomror
9. Karn Sharma
10. Manoj Bhandage
11. Vyshak Vijaykumar
12. Akash Deep
13. Reece Topley (England)
14. Himanshu Sharma
15. Rajan Kumar
16. Mayank Dagar
17. Cameron Green (Australia)
18. Alzarri Joseph (West Indies)
19. Tom Curran (England)
20. Lockie Ferguson (New Zealand)
21. Swapnil Singh
22. Saurav Chuahan

Rajasthan Royals Retention: RR Released Players List 2025

1. Jos Buttler (England)
2. Donovan Ferreira (South Africa)
3. Kunal Rathore
4. Ravichandran Ashwin
5. Kuldeep Sen
6. Navdeep Saini
7. Prasidh Krishna
8. Trent Boult (New Zealand)
9. Yuzvendra Chahal
10. Adam Zampa (Australia)
11. Avesh Khan
12. Rovman Powell (West Indies)
13. Shubham Dubey
14. Tom Kohler Cadmore (England)
15. Nandre Burger (South Africa)
16. Abid Mushtaq

Sunrisers Hyderabad Retention: SRH Released Players List 2025

1. Abdul Samad
2. Aiden Markram (South Africa)
3. Rahul Tripathi
4. Glenn Phillips (New Zealand)
5. Mayank Agarwal
6. Anmolpreet Singh
7. Upendra Singh Yadav
8. Abhishek Sharma
9. Marco Jansen (South Africa)
10. Washington Sundar
11. Sanvir Singh
12. Bhuvneshwar Kumar
13. T Natarajan
14. Mayank Markande
15. Umran Malik
16. Fazalhaq Farooqi (Afghanistan)
17. Shahbaz Ahmed
18. Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka)
19. Jaydev Unadkat
20. Akash Singh
21. Jhathavedh Subramanyan