The Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2025 auction takes place on Thursday (November 27). Ahead of the auction, teams had officially revealed their retention list.
Across the five WPL teams, 71 players, including 25 overseas stars, were retained. Most of the teams have managed to hold on to their core groups.
Reigning champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), who won the trophy last year with Smriti Mandhana as captain, have released England skipper Heather Knight.
Mumbai Indians (MI) retained Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur but let go of Issy Wong, who led MI to the WPL 2023 final with a hat-trick – the first-ever in WPL history – against the UP Warriorz.
As per the WPL 2025 rules, each team can have a maximum of 18 players in their squad, including six overseas cricketers.
WPL 2025 retention: Players retained and released
* Overseas players
Delhi Capitals
Retained players
- Alice Capsey*
- Annabel Sutherland*
- Arundhati Reddy
- Jemimah Rodrigues
- Jess Jonassen*
- Marizanne Kapp*
- Meg Lanning*
- Minnu Mani
- Radha Yadav
- Shafali Verma
- Shikha Pandey
- Sneha Deepthi
- Taniyaa Bhatia
- Titas Sadhu
Released players
- Aparna Mondal
- Ashwani Kumari
- Laura Harris*
- Poonam Yadav
Gujarat Giants
Retained players
- Ashleigh Gardner*
- Beth Mooney*
- Bharti Fulmali
- Dayalan Hemalatha
- Harleen Deol
- Kashvee Gautam
- Laura Wolvaardt*
- Mannat Kashyap
- Meghna Singh
- Phoebe Litchfield*
- Priya Mishra
- Sayali Satghare
- Shabnam Shakil
- Tanuja Kanwer
Released players
- Kathryn Bryce*
- Lauren Cheatle*
- Lea Tahuhu*
- Sneh Rana
- Tarannum Pathan
- Trisha Poojitha
- Veda Krishnamurthy
Mumbai Indians
Retained players
- Amandeep Kaur
- Amanjot Kaur
- Amelia Kerr*
- Chloe Tryon*
- Harmanpreet Kaur
- Hayley Matthews*
- Jintimani Kalita
- Keerthana Balakrishnan
- Natalie Sciver*
- Pooja Vastrakar
- Sajeevan Sajana
- Saika Ishaque
- Shabnim Ismail*
- Yastika Bhatia
Released players
- Fatima Jaffer
- Humairaa Kaazi
- Isabelle Wong*
- Priyanka Bala
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Royal Challengers Bengaluru WPL 2025 retention
Retained players
- Asha Shobana
- Dani Wyatt*
- Ekta Bisht
- Ellyse Perry*
- Georgia Wareham*
- Kanika Ahuja
- Kate Cross*
- Renuka Singh
- Richa Ghosh
- Sabbhineni Meghana
- Shreyanka Patil
- Smriti Mandhana
- Sophie Devine*
- Sophie Molineux*
Released players
- Disha Kasat
- Indrani Roy
- Shraddha Pokarkar
- Shubha Satheesh
- Simran Bahadur
UP Warriorz WPL 2025 retention
Retained players
- Alyssa Healy*
- Anjali Sarvani
- Chamari Athapaththu*
- Deepti Sharma
- Gouher Sultana
- Grace Harris*
- Kiran Navgire
- Poonam Khemnar
- Rajeshwari Gayakwad
- Saima Thakor
- Shweta Sehrawat
- Sophie Ecclestone*
- Tahlia McGrath*
- Uma Chetry
- Vrinda Dinesh
Released players
- Laxmi Yadav
- Parshavi Chopra
- Soppadhandi Yashasri
- Lauren Bell*
