WPL 2025 retention list announcement. (Photo- AFP)
After the IPL, the retention list for the upcoming Women’s Premier League season has now also been announced. This time there will be a mini auction in the Women’s Premier League, so all teams have retained at least some players. Last season’s champions Royal Challengers Bangalore have released a total of 7 players. Apart from this, teams like Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians have retained their core group. Let us tell you that in WPL each team can have 18 players, including six foreign players. At the same time, the purse of all the teams is 15 million rupees.
WPL 2025 retention list announced
Royal challengers from Bangalore
Retained: Smriti Mandhana (captain), Sabbineni Meghna, Richa Ghosh, Ellyse Perry, Georgia Wareham, Shreyanka Patil, Asha Shobhana, Sophie Devine, Renuka Singh, Sophie Molyneux, Ekta Bisht, Kate Cross, Kanika Ahuja, Danny Wyatt (substitution).
Released: Disha Cassatt, Indrani Roy, Nadine De Klerk, Shubha Satish, Shraddha Pokerkar, Simran Bahadur, Heather Knight.
Bombay Indians
Retained: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Pooja Vastrakar, Yastika Bhatia, Nate Sciver-Brunt, Hayley Matthews, Amelia Kerr, Chloe Tryon, Amanjot Kaur, Saika Ishaq, Jintimani Kalita, S Sajna, Keertan Balakrishnan, Shabnim Ismail.
Release: Priyanka Bala, Humaira Kazi, Fatima Jaffer, EC Wong.
Capitals of Delhi
Held: Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Tania Bhatia, Radha Yadav, Arundhati Reddy, Shikha Pandey, Sneha Deepti, Minnu Mani, Titas Sadhu, Meg Lanning, Alice Capsey, Marizanne Kapp, Jess Jonassen, Annabel Sutherland.
Launch: Laura Harris, Ashwini Kumari, Poonam Yadav, Aparna Mondal.