Mumbai Indians have retained 17 players, while they included 3 players in their squad through trade deals. Although Mumbai Indians’ purse is almost exhausted, now the franchise can buy maximum 5 players in the IPL auction but the team does not even have a total of Rs 3 crore in its purse.

Mumbai Indians have kept their ‘core’ team intact, they have retained 17 players including Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Tilak Verma, while through trade the franchise has included Shardul Thakur, Sharfan Rutherford and Mayank Markande in the team. But MI is going to face great difficulty in the auction. It will not be easy for them to buy the players of their choice, because the purse is very less.

MI retained these 17 players

• Suryakumar Yadav
• Rohit Sharma
• Tilak Verma
• Ryan Rickelton
• robin minz
• hardik pandya
• Naman Dheer
• will jacks
• Mitchell Santner
• Corbin Bosch
• Raj Angad Bawa
• Deepak Chahar
• Jasprit Bumrah
• trent bolt
• Allah Ghazanfar
• Ashwani Kumar
• Raghu Sharma

MI released these 8 players

• bevan jacobs
• KL Srijit
• Vignesh Puthur
• Karan Sharma
• lijad williams
• Satyanarayana Raju
• mujeeb ur rehman
• Reece Topley

MI’s remaining purse for IPL 2026 auction

Mumbai Indians can now buy maximum 5 players in the IPL 2026 auction. The team retained 17 players and kept 3 in the team through trade, which means a total of 20 players are already in the team. Let us tell you that an IPL team can have a maximum of 25 players.

Mumbai Indians will have a purse of only Rs 2 crore 75 lakh in the IPL 2026 auction. MI can buy 1 out of 5 foreign players.

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— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) November 15, 2025

On which date will IPL take place? 2026

There will be a mini auction for the 19th edition of the Indian Premier League, which is next month. The auction may take place on December 15, but its venue has not been decided yet. There is news that the auction is also being considered to be held outside India in UAE.

On Thursday, all the teams have released their retention lists for the Women’s Premier League 2026. Each team was allowed to retain a maximum of 5 players. Mumbai Indians have retained 5 excellent players while filling all these five slots, which also includes Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur. Mumbai has retained Harmanpreet Kaur, Nate-Syver Brunt, Hayley Mathews, Amanjot Kaur and G Kamalini. The auction of WPL 2026 will take place on 27th November.

BCCI had set the auction purse of all the teams for the auction at Rs 15 crore and had set different amounts for retention. The first retention was set at Rs 3.5 crore, second retention at Rs 2.5 crore, third retention at Rs 1.75 crore, fourth retention at Rs 1 crore and if a team retains the fifth player, then its minimum price was set at Rs 50 lakh.

MI retention list

It is surprising that Mumbai Indians have not made Harmanpreet Kaur the first retention. MI has given Rs 3.5 crore to Nate Sciver Brunt as its first retention. Whereas Harmanpreet Kaur has been retained for Rs 2.5 crore. Hayley Mathews has been retained for Rs 1.75 crore and Mumbai has retained India’s star all-rounder Amanjot Kaur for Rs 1 crore. Mumbai has also retained an uncapped player in the form of 17-year-old G Kamalini, who will get Rs 60 lakh.

• Nate Sciver Brunt – 3.50 crores
• Harmanpreet Kaur – 2.50 crores
• Hayley Mathews – 1.75 crores
• Amanjot Kaur – 1 crore
• G Kamalini – 60 lakhs

MI is a two-time champion

Mumbai Indians have won the WPL title twice. She became champion of the Women’s Premier League in 2023 and 2025. Mumbai Indians won the Women’s Premier League for the second time by defeating Delhi Capitals by 8 runs in the final of 2025 WPL.

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WPL Retention 2026 List: From MI, RCB to Delhi Capitals, see the retention list of all the teams; Many veterans were wiped out