RCB Players List 2025 – Hello friends, welcome to iplgk.com. On 31 October 2024, the list of released and retained players by all the IPL teams was released and on 24-25 November, IPL Mega Auction 2025 was held in Jeddah city of Saudi Arabia during which all the IPL franchises added new players to their squad. In this blog post, we will read about all the players included in the squad by Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) franchise during IPL Mega Auction 2025 as well as the retained and released players.
RCB Players List 202 PDF
Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise added a total of 19 players to its squad during the IPL mega auction. Australian fast bowler Josh Hazlewood was the most expensive player for RCB in the auction, whom RCB included in its team by spending Rs 12.50 crore. The players bought by the RCB franchise during the IPL mega auction, their price and the respective country information are given in the following table.
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S. N. | Player Name | Price | Country |
1. | Jos Hazlewood | ₹12.50 Crore | Australia |
2. | Phil Salt | ₹11.50 Crore | England |
3. | Jitesh Sharma | ₹11 Crore | India |
4. | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | ₹10.75 Crore | India |
5. | Liam Livingstone | ₹8.50 Crore | England |
6. | Rasikh Salam | ₹6 Crore | India |
7. | Kunal Pandya | ₹5.75 Crore | India |
8. | Tim David | ₹3 Crore | Australia |
9. | Jacob Bethell | ₹2.60 Crore | England |
10. | Suyash Sharma | ₹2.60 Crore | India |
11. | Devdutt Paddikal | ₹2 Crore | India |
12. | Nuwan Thusara | ₹1.60 Crore | Sri Lanka |
13. | Romario Shepherd | ₹1.50 crore | West Indies |
14. | Lungi Ngidi | ₹1 Crore | Sri Lanka |
15. | Swapnil Singh | ₹50 lakh | India |
16. | Abhinandan Singh | ₹30 lakh | India |
17. | Mohit Rathi | ₹30 lakh | India |
18. | Manoj Bhandage | ₹30 lakh | India |
19. | Swastik Chikara | ₹30 Lakh | India |
RCB Retained Players List 2025
Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise has retained a total of 3 players Yash Dayal, Rajat Patidar and Virat Kohli. Among all these players, Virat Kohli is the most expensive player, whom Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise retained for Rs 21 crore.
Like other teams, Royal Challengers Bangalore also had Rs 120 crore in their purse, out of which RCB spent only Rs 37 crore to retain these 3 players. Royal Challengers Bangalore had Rs 83 crore left for IPL Mega Auction 2025, in which RCB included a total of 19 players in their team.
Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise has retained 3 players and all of them are Indian players. Following are the names, prices and categories of the players retained by Royal Challengers Bangalore.
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S.N. | Player Name | Price | Category |
1. | Virat Kohli | Rs 21 Crore | Capped |
2. | Rajat Patidar | Rs 11 Crore | Capped |
3. | Yash Dayal | Rs 5 Crore | Uncapped |
RCB Released Players List 2025
While the Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise retained only 3 players on one hand, on the other hand, 20 players were released and these released players also include legendary players like Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj, Dinesh Karthik and Faf du Plessis. Following are the names of all the players released by Royal Challengers Bangalore.
- Glenn Maxwell
- Lockie Ferguson
- Will Jacks
- Tom Curran
- Faf du Plessis
- Cameron Green
- Alzari Joseph
- Reece Topley
- Sourav Chauhan
- Swapnil Singh
- Dinesh Karthik
- Mahipal Lomror
- Vaishak Vijaykumar
- Anuj Rawat
- Akash Deep
- Rajan Kumar
- Karna Sharma
- Himanshu Sharma
- Manoj Bhandage
- Suyash Prabhudesai
In this blog post, we read about all the players included in the squad by the Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise during the IPL Mega Auction 2025 as well as the players retained and released. The link to download PDF of this post is given below.