Royal Challengers Bangalore has released its retention list for IPL 2026. RCB has released 8 players including international stars like Liam Livingstone and Lungi Ngidi. 17 players including Virat Kohli, Phil Salt and Bhuvneshwar Kumar have been retained.

RCB won the IPL 2025 title under the captaincy of Rajat Patidar. Patidar can be seen captaining this matter also. Bengaluru has retained 11 Indian players, while 6 foreign players have been dismissed.

Liam Livingstone released

England all-rounder Liam Livingstone has been released by Bengaluru. Apart from him, RCB has shown the way out to two other senior players in the form of Mayank Agarwal and Lungi Ngidi. Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar and other experienced players including Jitesh Sharma and Krunal Pandya will try to take Bengaluru to another title.

RCB’s retention list: Rajat Patidar (captain), Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Jacob Bethel, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nuwan Thushara, Rasikh Salaam, Abhinandan Singh and Suyyash Sharma.

RCB released these players: Swastik Chikara, Mayank Agarwal, Tim Seifert, Liam Livingstone, Manoj Bhandage, Lungi Ngidi, Blessing Muzarabani, Mohit Rathi

16.4 crores left with Bengaluru

After retaining 17 players, Royal Challengers Bangalore are left with Rs 16.4 crore in their purse. In the auction, Bengaluru team can buy maximum 8 more players, out of which it is mandatory to have 2 foreign players.

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The mega auction for the Women’s Premier League 2026 is scheduled to take place on November 27. A few weeks before that, all the teams have released their respective retention lists. BCCI had set a purse of Rs 15 crore for all the 5 teams. RCB, MI, Delhi Capitals, UP Warriors and Gujarat Giants together have retained a total of 17 players, on whom a total of Rs 39.4 crore has been spent. Know here which team has retained how many and which players.

Rs 39 crore spent on 17 players

Only Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals have used all their five retentions. Royal Challengers Bangalore have retained 4 players, Gujarat Giants have retained two players and UP Warriors have retained only one player. Out of these 17 players, 10 are Indian and 7 are foreign. Three uncapped players have also been retained. A lot of money has also been showered on uncapped players, because BCCI had set the price for them at Rs 50 lakh.

who spent how much money

-Mumbai Indians retained Harmanpreet Kaur, Nate Sciver Brunt, Hayley Mathews, Amanjot Kaur and G Kamalini, on whom it spent Rs 9.25 crore.

-RCB has spent Rs 8.85 crore on only 4 players. The Bengaluru franchise has retained Smriti Mandhana, Ellyse Perry, Richa Ghosh and Shreyanka Patil. Bengaluru has not kept any uncapped player in its retention list.

-Delhi Capitals have also spent Rs 9.30 crore out of the purse of Rs 15 crore. It has retained Jemimah Rodrigues, Shefali Verma, Marijne Kapp, Annabel Sutherland and uncapped player Nikki Prasad.

-Gujarat Giants have retained 2 veterans in the form of Ashley Gardner and Beth Mooney. Gujarat team has spent Rs 6 crore on only 2 players.

-UP Warriors have released big players including Deepti Sharma. He has retained only uncapped player Shweta Sehrawat.

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