Delhi Capitals IPL 2025 Retentions: Final List Of Retained Players And Remaining Purse Size

IPL Retentions 2024: Delhi Capitals , alongside Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Punjab Kings is a franchise that has been around from the first season, but hasn't won an IPL title. Just like Lucknow Super Giants , Delhi Capitals ' campaign saw some brave and individual performances in IPL 2024, but they completely misfired as a unit. Delhi finished sixth on the IPL Points table in 2024 with 7 wins and as many losses in their group stage.

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Delhi Capitals: IPL 2025 Full Retention List

The suspense on Rishabh Pant has finally been unveiled. He has been released by Delhi Capitals, which means he would enter the pool in the upcoming mega auctions.

DC Retained Players:

First Retention: Axar Patel- 16 crore
Second Retention: Kuldeep Yadav- 13.25 crore
Third Retention: Tristan Stubbs- 10 crore
Fourth Retention: Abhishek Porel- 4 crore

Total Amount Spent: 43.25 crore

Remaining Purse: 76.75 crore left

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Delhi Capitals Look For Their Maiden Title

The Delhi Capitals got things completely wrong as they heavily relied on David Warner, Prithvi Shaw , and Mitchell Marsh to do the bulk of scoring. Pant anyway was making a comeback to competitive cricket after his horrific accident in December 2022. Much to everybody's surprise, Delhi played 11 different top-order in 14 games. They also used five different opening pairs which was one of the main reasons for their downfall. Delhi might've learnt their lesson from their IPL 2024 debacle and will look to make some smart buys at the auction table.