{"id":2158728,"date":"2025-11-15T15:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2158728"},"modified":"2025-11-15T15:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:12:11","slug":"rajasthan-royals-ipl-2026-retentions-full-list-of-retained-and-released-players-purse-remaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rajasthan-royals-ipl-2026-retentions-full-list-of-retained-and-released-players-purse-remaining\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan Royals IPL 2026 Retentions: Full List Of Retained And Released Players, Purse Remaining"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After finishing ninth in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season, Rajasthan Royals (RR) have made some high-profile trade deals ahead of the IPL 2026 mini auction. RR’s long-time captain Sanju Samson has been traded to Chennai Super Kings (CSK). All-rounders Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran have been traded in by RR from CSK, with the veteran India star taking a salary cut from Rs 18 crore to Rs 14 crore. With Samson gone, the inaugural IPL champions will have a big decision to take when it comes to captaincy for IPL 2026.<\/p>\n

RR have let go of Sri Lankan spin duo Wanindu Hasaranga and Maheesh Theekshana, as well as Afghan fast bowler Fazalhaq Farooqi.<\/p>\n

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Rajasthan Royals have retained the services of star opener Yashasvi Jaiswal and 14-year-old sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi. The latter experienced a breakout season in 2025, smashing the fastest-ever IPL century by an Indian (off 35 balls).<\/p>\n

Riyan Parag and Dhruv Jurel have both been retained despite their hefty pricetags of Rs 14 crore each. Shimron Hetmyer has also been retained at his Rs 11 crore fee.<\/p>\n

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Four uncapped players have been released by RR. Pacers Akash Madhwal and Ashok Sharma have been released, as well as spinner Kumar Kartikeya and batter Kunal Rathore.<\/p>\n

Rajasthan Royals will enter the IPL 2026 auction with a purse of Rs 16.05 crore, giving them the liberty to make one or two expensive purchases.<\/p>\n

Players Retained<\/strong>: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Kwena Maphaka, Nandre Burger, Lhuan-dre Pretorius<\/p>\n

Players Released<\/strong>: Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Kartikeya, Kunal Rathore, Ashok Sharma.<\/p>\n

Players Traded In<\/strong>: Ravindra Jadeja (from Chennai Super Kings), Sam Curran (from Chennai Super Kings), Donovan Ferreira (from Delhi Capitals)<\/p>\n

Players Traded Out<\/strong>: Sanju Samson (to Rajasthan Royals), Nitish Rana (to Delhi Capitals)<\/p>\n

AUCTION BUDGET:\u00a0<\/strong>Rs 16.05 crore<\/p>\n

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After finishing ninth in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season, Rajasthan Royals (RR) have made some high-profile trade deals ahead of the IPL 2026 mini auction. RR’s long-time captain Sanju Samson has been traded to Chennai Super Kings (CSK). All-rounders Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran have been traded in by RR from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2158729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[26230,413543,413361,324902,413358,310187,413359,409409,341781,413542],"class_list":["post-2158728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-cricket","tag-dhruv-chand-jurel","tag-indian-premier-league-2026","tag-rajasthan-royals","tag-ravindrasinh-anirudhsinh-jadeja","tag-riyan-parag","tag-samuel-matthew-curran","tag-sanju-viswanath-samson-ndtv-sports","tag-vaibhav-suryavanshi","tag-yashasvi-bhupendra-kumar-jaiswal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Rajasthan-Royals-IPL-2026-Retentions-Full-List-Of-Retained-And.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158730,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158728\/revisions\/2158730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2158729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}