Ipl 2025 Retention Rules 2024. All 10 franchises can build a squad of a minimum of 18 and a maximum of 25 players for the ipl 2025 edition. As per the rules each franchise can retain six players, with a maximum of five being capped (indian or overseas) and a maximum of two being uncapped.

Franchises can retain up to six players from their existing squad either via the retention or rtm option. Stokes was notably absent from the list of 52 english players who registered for the mega auction in jeddah.