IPL 2018 Player Auction: RTM card and players on whom teams can use them- full list

The Indian Premier League (IPL) players auction will take place in Bengaluru on January 27 and 28. There will be 578 players up for grabs in the auction while 18 players have already been retained by the eight teams. 

The IPL Governing Council introduced the RTM concept for the 2018 auction so that the franchise can retain the players they wanted. The usage of RTM depends on the number of pre-auction retentions a franchise has made. The franchisees that have retained three players before the auction can use a maximum of two RTMs while the franchisees that have retained less than three players, can use their RTMs for a maximum of three players. 

What is RTM card and how RTM card works in IPL auction? 

RTM, or Right to Match, can be availed by any team on the day of the auction. If a player, who played for that team in the previous season, is acquired by another team in the auction, the first team can use their RTM card and get the player for the same amount of money i.e. the final bid in the auction. 

Royal Challengers Bangalore 

Players retained: Virat Kohli, Sarfaraz Khan, AB de Villiers 
RTM cards left: 2 
Money left in purse: Rs. 49 crore 

Here are players RCB can use their RTM cards on: Chris Gayle, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Sreenath Aravind, Kedar Jadhav, Shane Watson, Stuart Binny, Samuel Badree, Travis Head, Sachin Baby, Iqbal Abdulla, KL Rahul, Avesh Khan, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tymal Mills, Billy Stanlake, Pawan Negi, Praveen Dubey and Aniket Chaudhary. 

Kolkata Knight Riders 

Players retained: Andre Russell, Sunil Narine 
RTM cards left: 3 
Money left in purse: Rs. 59 crore 

Here are players KKR can use their RTM cards on: Gautam Gambhir, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Sheldon Jackson (WK), Ankit Rajpoot, Rishi Dhawan, Sayan Ghosh, R Sanjay Yadav and Ishank Jaggi. 

Chennai Super Kings 

Players retained: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja 
RTM cards left: 2 
Money left in purse: Rs 47 crore 

Here are players CSK can use their RTM cards on: Baba Aparajith, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Ishwar Pandey, Brendon McCullum, Ronit More, Dwayne Smith and Andrew Tye. 

Mumbai Indians 

Players retained: Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah 
RTM cards left: 2 
Money left in purse: Rs. 47 crore 

Here are players MI can use their RTM cards on: Shreyas Gopal, Nitish Rana, Siddhesh Lad, J Suchith, Krunal Pandya, Deepak Punia, Jitesh Sharma, Tim Southee, Jos Buttler, Mitchell McClenaghan, Lendl Simmons, Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Mitchell Johnson, K Gowtham, Kulwant Khejroliya, Asela Gunaratne and Nicholas Pooran. 

Sunrisers Hyderabad 

Players retained: David Warner, Bhuvneshwar Kumar 
RTM cards left: 3 
Money left in purse: Rs. 67.5 crore 

Here are players SRH can use their RTM cards on: Shikhar Dhawan, Moises Henriques, Naman Ojha, Ricky Bhui, Kane Williamson, Siddharth Kaul, Bipul Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh, Ben Cutting, Abhimanyu Mithun, Barinder Sran, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Rashid Khan, Mohammed Siraj, Eklavya Dwivedi, Chris Jordan, Mohammad Nabi, Ben Laughlin, Pravin Tambe and Tanmay Agarwal. 

Delhi Daredevils 

Players retained: Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Chris Morris 
RTM cards left: 2 
Money left in purse: Rs. 47 crore 

Here are players DD can use their RTM cards on: JP Duminy, Mohammed Shami, Quinton de Kock, Shahbaz Nadeem, Jayant Yadav, Amit Mishra, Zaheer Khan, Sam Billings, Sanju Samson, Carlos Brathwaite, Karun Nair, CV Milind, Syed Ahmed, Pratyush Singh, Angelo Mathews, Corey Anderson, Kagiso Rabada, Pat Cummins, Ankit Bawne, Aditya Tare, Murugan Ashwin, Navdeep Saini and Shashank Singh. 

Rajasthan Royals 

Player retained: Steve Smith 
RTM cards left: 3 
Money left in purse: Rs. 67.5 crore 

Here are players RR can use their RTM cards on: Ankit Sharma, Rajat Bhatia, James Faulkner, Dhawal Kulkarni, Vikramjeet Malik, Abhishek Nayar, Ajinkya Rahane, Dinesh Salunkhe, Pravin Tambe, Dishant Yagnik, Sagar Trivedi, Rahul Tewatia and Juan Theron. 

Kings XI Punjab 

Player retained: Axar Patel 
RTM cards left: 3 
Money left in purse: Rs. 67.5 crore 

Here are players KXIP can use their RTM cards on: Manan Vohra, Gurkeerat Mann Singh, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Wriddhiman Saha, Murali Vijay, NS Naik, Mohit Sharma, KC Cariappa, Armaan Jaffer, Pradeep Sahu, Swapnil Singh. Hashim Amla, Marcus Stoinis, Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, David Miller, Eoin Morgan, Rahul Tewatia, T Natarajan, Matt Henry, Varun Aaron, Martin Guptill, Darren Sammy and Rinku Singh.