A total of 27 players were kept in their franchises before the big Indian Premier League auction, which will see ten teams battling among themselves for top cricketing skills.

With an INR 90 crore salary cap available at each major auction, eight franchises were eligible to retain up to 4 players with 3 Indians, 2 overseas players and 2 undefeated Indians.

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Each of the eight franchises has used the Player Retention option and the Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Delhi Capitals (DC), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Mumbai Indians (MI) have chosen to retain 4 players each. Rajasthan Royals (RR), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) retained 3 players each while the Punjab Kings (PBKS) retained 2. PBKS therefore has the highest fund available at INR 72 crore while Delhi Capitals has at least INR 47.50 to be used at auction. Of the 27 retained players, 8 are overseas and 4 are undocumented Indians.

Here is a list of players retained by

 Royal Challengers Bangalore:
1) Virat Kohli – 15 crore
2) Glenn Maxwell – 11 crore
3) Mohammed Siraj – 7 crore

Mumbai Indians players:
1) Rohit Sharma – 16 crore
2) Jasprit Bumrah – 12 crore
3) Suryakumar Yadav – 8 crore
4) Kieron Pollard – 6 crore

Punjab Kings:
1) Mayank Agarwal – 14 crore
2) Arshdeep Singh (not included) – 4crore

Sunrisers Hyderabad:
1) Kane Williamson – 14 crore
2) Abdul Samad (not included) – 4 crore
3) Umran Malik (not included) – 4 crore

Chennai Super Kings:
1) Ravindra Jadeja – 16 crore
2) MS Dhoni – 12 crore
3) Moeen Ali – 8 crore
4) Ruturaj Gaikwad – 6 crore

Delhi Capitals:
1) Rishabh Pant – 16 crore
2) Axar Patel – 9 crore
3) Prithvi Shaw – 7.5 crore
4) Anrich Nortje – 6.5 crore

Rajasthan Royals:
1) Sanju Samson – 14 crore
2) Jos Buttler – 10 crore
3) Yashasvi Jaiswal (not included) – 4 crore

Kolkata Knight Riders:
1) Andre Russell – 12 crore
2) Varun Chakravarthy – 8 crore
3) Venkatesh Iyer – 8 crore
4) Sunil Narine – 6 crore