Buttler not retained by Royals for 2025 IPL

England white-ball skipper Jos Buttler has not been retained by Rajasthan Royals for the 2025 Indian Premier League season.

Buttler, 34, has been with Rajasthan since 2018 but they person opted not to support him earlier the Mega Auction.

Teams are allowed to clasp up to six players from 2024, including 5 planetary capped players.

No England players person been retained, meaning the likes of Phil Salt, Sam Curran - who commanded a then-IPL grounds £1.85m successful 2023 - Liam Livingstone, Jonny Bairstow and Jofra Archer could beryllium disposable successful the auction.

Australia seamer Mitchell Starc, who became the IPL's astir costly player successful the 2024 play erstwhile Kolkata Knight Riders paid 24.75 crore Indian rupees (£2.3m) for his services, has besides not been retained.

The highest retention terms is for South Africa wicketkeeper Heinrich Klaasen, who has been retained by Sunrisers Hyderabad for 23 crore Indian rupees (£2.1m).

Klaasen is conscionable 1 of 10 overseas players retained, with others including Australia skipper Pat Cummins and batter Travis Head (both Sunrisers Hyderabad), Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan (Gujarat Titans) and West Indies' Nicholas Pooran (Lucknow Super Giants) and Andre Russell (Kolkata Knight Riders).

Indian superstars Jasprit Bumrah and Rohit Sharma (both Mumbai Indians), Virat Kohli (Royal Challengers Bengaluru) and Ravindra Jadeja (Chennai Super Kings) are among those to beryllium kept.

Some of India's cardinal players volition participate the draught though, with KL Rahul (Lucknow Super Giants), Rishabh Pant (Delhi Capitals), Ravichandran Ashwin (Rajasthan Royals) and Mohammed Siraj (Royal Challengers Bengaluru) among those released.

Among the overseas players not to beryllium retained are Australia's Glenn Maxwell and Cameron Green (Royal Challengers Bengaluru) and South Africa's Anrich Nortje (Delhi Capitals), David Miller (Gujarat Titans) and Quinton de Kock (Lucknow Super Giants).

MS Dhoni, 43, volition play for Chennai Super Kings again aft being signed arsenic an uncapped player. A regularisation alteration means anyone who has not played planetary cricket for 5 years becomes uncapped.

Sides who person not utilised their six retentions are fixed Right-to-Match cards to usage astatine the Mega Auction, which means immoderate players could inactive beryllium retained.

However, Buttler and Starc volition not instrumentality to Royals oregon Knight Riders due to the fact that they person kept six players.

Players volition person to determine whether to participate the auction astir their planetary commitments, due to the fact that the IPL has introduced a two-year ban connected players who propulsion retired of the tourney without definite requirements being met.

The dates for the auction are yet to beryllium confirmed, but it is expected to instrumentality spot implicit 2 days successful precocious November.

The docket for the tourney itself is besides unknown, but usually takes spot successful April and May.

Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Matheesha Pathirana, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni.

Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs, Abishek Porel.

Gujarat Titans: Rashid Khan, Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Rinku Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh.

Lucknow Super Giants: Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni.

Mumbai Indians: Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Varma.

Punjab Kings: Shashank Singh, Prabhsimran Singh.

Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Sandeep Sharma.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Yash Dayal.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Heinrich Klaasen, Pat Cummins, Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Nitish Kumar Reddy.