Overview
- Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals used all five retentions, keeping cores built around Nat Sciver‑Brunt, Harmanpreet Kaur and Hayley Matthews for MI, and Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Marizanne Kapp and Annabel Sutherland for DC, leaving roughly INR 5.7 crore each and no RTMs.
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru retained four — Smriti Mandhana, Ellyse Perry, Richa Ghosh and Shreyanka Patil — and head to the auction with about INR 6.2 crore plus one Right‑to‑Match.
- Gujarat Giants kept only Ashleigh Gardner and Beth Mooney, carrying close to INR 9 crore into the auction with three RTMs available.
- UP Warriorz retained just uncapped Shweta Sehrawat and released Deepti Sharma, Alyssa Healy and Sophie Ecclestone, holding INR 14.5 crore and four RTMs for a major rebuild.
- A deep auction pool now features released stars such as Deepti Sharma, Meg Lanning, Laura Wolvaardt, Amelia Kerr and Phoebe Litchfield, with teams operating under INR 15 crore purses and fixed retention slabs.