Rishabh Pant: Team India's wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant is seen captaining the Delhi Capitals in the IPL. Now in such a situation, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is going to organize a mega auction before IPL 2025.

In such a situation, all the franchises will have permission to retain a limited number of players this time. In this episode, Delhi team can retain 5 players and this includes some young players including captain Rishabh Pant.

These 5 players including Rishabh Pant can be retained

Actually, Delhi team can retain 5 players before this auction and the first name in this is captain Rishabh Pant. Pant has performed brilliantly for this team and for this reason he can be retained.

Apart from Pant, star all-rounder Akshar Patel can also be retained as he has been consistently performing well for his team for the last few seasons. Apart from Akshar, Jake Fraser McGurk is also included in this list.

So the names of Tristan Stubbs and Anrich Nortje are included in this list. Stubbs performed brilliantly for his team during IPL 2024 and for this reason he can be retained.

These 18 players including Ishant-Prithvi-Warner may be released

If we talk about the released players, then many big legends can be included in it. Team India's legendary fast bowler Ishant Sharma is also included in this series. Apart from Ishant, young batsman Prithvi Shaw can also be included in this and he can be released.

At the same time, David Warner's performance has also not been anything special and due to this the franchise can release him too.

Apart from these players, the list of those to be released may include Ricky Bhui, Yash Dhull, Swastik Chikara, Lalit Yadav, Sumit Kumar, Gulbadin Naib, Abhishek Porel, Shai Hope, Kumar Kushagra, Jhay Richardson, Rasikh Dar Salam, Vicky Ostwal, Khalil Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Praveen Dubey, Lizad Williams.

Permission may be given to retain 6 players

Actually, according to the rules till now, any team could retain only 4 players but now there can be a change in this and BCCI can allow retaining 6 players.