Likely retentions announced by WPL sides as Harmanpreet, Mandhana, Rodrigues among players retained by their teams.
Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, and India’s World Cup champions Harmanpreet Kaur are among the prominent players kept by the WPL teams before to the 2026 super auction.
Alyssa Healy and Meg Lanning of Australia, as well as Amelia Kerr, an all-rounder from New Zealand, are scheduled to go up for auction after being cut by their respective teams. Deepti Sharma, the World Cup Player of the Tournament, is one of the major releases. In 2025, Deepti headed Warriorz while Healy was away.
cMumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals, the reigning champions, have kept five players, the most permitted by the WPL; Royals Challengers Bengaluru have kept four, Gujarat Giants have kept two, and UP Warriorz have kept one. The following are likely retentions, even though the precise amounts for each player could not be verified.
Delhi Capitals: Annabel Sutherland, Marizanne Kapp, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Niki Prasad
Mumbai Indians: Harmanpreet Kaur, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Amanjot Kaur, G Kamalini and Hayley Matthews
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Smriti Mandhana, Ellyse Perry, Richa Ghosh, Shreyanka Patil
Gujarat Giants: Ashleigh Gardner, Beth Mooney
UP Warriorz: Shweta Sehrawat.
Franchises may keep up to three capped Indian players, two foreign players, and two uncapped Indian players, according to WPL retention regulations. The rules stipulate that if the team wishes to keep five players, at least one of them must be an uncapped Indian player. Additionally, for the first time, the WPL has decided to permit teams to use the right-to-match (RTM) option at the auction to repurchase a player who was a member of their team in 2025.
DC and MI will have INR 5.75 crore to assemble their team, which should consist of 16–18 players. There won’t be any RTMs available.
Warriorz, who have kept Shweta Sehrawat, an uncapped player, will receive four RTMs and a maximum reward of INR 14.5 crore. RCB will have one RTM and INR 6.25 crore, while Giants will have three RTMs that are solely open to Indian players and a payment of INR 9 crore.