IPL 2025 retention rules: Parth Jindal, who is the co-owner of Delhi Capitals, revealed that they would be retaining skipper Rishabh Pant before the mega auctions for the next season. During an interaction with news agency IANS, Jindal reckoned that the franchise has lots of brilliant players that they want to retain but the full list would be finalized after speaking with Sourav Ganguly, who is DC's Director of cricket.

The Rishabh Pant-led side lay in the sixth position at the IPL 2024 points table. They might not have qualified for the playoffs this time but they had lots of youngsters like Abhishek Porel, Tristan Stubbs, and Jake Fraser-McGurk.

During the interaction, Jindal spilled beans about the possible retentions but also emphasized that besides Rishabh Pant, the retention of none of the other players was final.

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"Yes, we have to retain. We have some very good players in our team. The rules have just come out, so after discussing with GMR and our director of cricket, Sourav Ganguly, decisions will be made," Parth Jindal was quoted as saying to IANS.

"Rishabh Pant will be retained. We also have Axar Patel, who is excellent, Tristan Stubbs, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Kuldeep Yadav, Abishek Porel, Mukesh Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, all very good players in our team," he revealed.

"We'll see what happens in the auction. But first, as per the rule, we can retain six players. After discussions, we will proceed with the auction and see what happens," he concluded.

The BCCI had made several new IPL retention rules and thus kept the welfare of the Indian players in mind. This will help all the youngsters, who are eyeing a spot in the playing XI of these IPL franchises.

Latest IPL retention rules:

1. The IPL franchises can retain a total of 6 players from their existing squad. This can be either via retention or by using the Right to Match (RTM) option.

2. It is at the discretion of the IPL franchise to choose their combination for Retentions and RTMs. The 6 retentions / RTMs can have a maximum of 5 capped players (Indian & Overseas) and a maximum of 2 uncapped players.

3. Any Overseas Player will have to register for the Big Auction. In case the overseas player doesn't register, then he will be ineligible to register in the following year’s player auction.

4. Any player who registers in the player auction and after getting picked at the auction, makes himself unavailable before the start of the season, will get banned from participating in the tournament and player auction for 2 Seasons.

5. A capped Indian player will become uncapped if the player has in the last five calendar years preceding the year in which the relevant Season is held, not played in the starting XI in International Cricket (Test match, ODI, Twenty20 International) or does not have a Central Contract with BCCI. This will apply to Indian Players only.

6. The Impact Player Regulation will continue for the 2025 to 2027 cycle.