WPL teams announced their retentions on Thursday ahead of mega auction. Harmanpreet Kaur has been retained by MI for ₹2.5 crore as second pick. Smriti Mandhana has been retained by RCB for ₹3.5 crore as the first retention. Shafali Verma and Jemimah Rodrigues have been retained for ₹2.2 crore each by DC, while Deepti Sharma has been released by UPW.