As many as 127 players were retained across all the eight Indian Premier League (IPL) teams – Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings, Kolkata Knight Riders, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kings XI Punjab, Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Capitals – ahead of the players auction which is set to take place on December 19 in Kolkata.
Here’s the entire list of the players who were retained and released:
List of released players: Evin Lewis, Adam Milne, Jason Behrendorff, Beuran Hendricks, Ben Cutting, Yuvraj Singh, Mayank Markande (traded out), Barinder Sran, Rasikh Salam, Pankaj Jaswal, Siddhesh Lad (traded out), Alzarri Joseph
Purse remaining: Rs 13.05 crores
Slots remaining: 07
2) Chennai Super Kings (CSK):
List of retained players: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Shane Watson, Dwayne Bravo, Ambati Rayudu, Imran Tahir, Harbhajan Singh, Lungi Ngidi, Deepak Chahar, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Faf du Plessis, KM Asif, Karn Sharma, Kedar Jadhav, Shardul Thakur, Monu Singh, Mitchell Santner, Murali Vijay, Jagadeesan Narayan
List of released players: Chaitanya Bishnoi, Dhruv Shorey, and Mohit Sharma David Willey, Sam Billings
Purse remaining: Rs. 14.60 crores
Slots remaining: 05
3) Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR):
List of retained players: Dinesh Karthik, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Shubman Gill, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier, Harry Gurney, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Siddhesh Lad (traded in)
List of released players: Chris Lynn, Carlos Brathwaite, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Nikhil Naik, KC Cariappa, Joe Denly, Srikant Munde, Yarra Prithviraj, Anrich Nortje
Purse remaining: Rs 35.65 crores
Slots remaining: 11
4) Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH):
List of retained players: Kane Williamson, David Warner, Manish Pandey, Vijay Shankar, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi, Abhishek Sharma, Shreevats Goswami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Siddarth Kaul, Shahbaz Nadeem, Billy Stanlake, Basil Thampi, T Natarajan, Jonny Bairstow, Wriddhiman Saha
List of released players: Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Deepak Hooda, Martin Guptill, Ricky Bhui
Purse remaining: Rs 17 crores
Slots remaining: 7
5) Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB):
List of retained players: Washington Sundar, Devdutt Padikkal, Navdeep Saini, Yuzvendra Chahal, Parthiv Patel, Shivam Dube, Moeen Ali, AB de Villiers, Virat Kohli
List of released players: Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Akshdeep Nath, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Colin de Grandhomme, Prayas Ray Barman, Tim Southee, Kulwant Khejroliya, Himmat Singh, Heinrich Klaasen, Milind Kumar, Dale Styen
Purse remaining: Rs 27.90 crores
Slots remaining: 12
6) Kings XI Punjab (KXIP):
List of retained players: Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Arshdeep Singh, Murugan Ashwin, Agnivesh Ayachi, Harpreet Brar, Moises Henriques, Sarfaraz Khan, Mandeep Singh, Mohammed Shami, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Karun Nair, Darshan Nalkande, Nicholas Pooran, KL Rahul, Simran Singh, Hardus Viljoen
List of released players: R Ashwin (traded out), Ankit Rajpoot (traded out), Sam Curran, David Miller, Andrew Tye, Varun Chakravarthy
Purse remaining: Rs 42.70 crores
Slots remaining: 9
7) Rajasthan Royals (RR):
List of retained players: Steve Smith, Sanju Samson, Jofra Archer, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Riyan Parag, Shashank Singh, Shreyas Gopal, Mahipal Lomror, Varun Aaron, Manan Vohra, Mayank Markande (traded in), Rahul Tewatia (traded in), Ankit Rajpoot (traded in)
List of released players: Ashton Turner, Oshane Thomas, Shubham Ranjane, Prashant Chopra, Ish Sodhi, Aryaman Birla, Jaydev Unadkat, Rahul Tripathi, Stuart Binny, Liam Livingstone, Sudheshan Midhun
Purse remaining: Rs 28.90 crores
Slots remaining: 11
8) Delhi Capitals (DC):
List of retained players: Shreyas Iyer, Prithvi Shaw, R Ashwin (traded in), Ajinkya Rahane (traded in), Shikhar Dhawan, Rishabh Pant, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Lamichhane, Kagiso Rabada, Keemo Paul, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Ishant Sharma
List of released players: Colin Munro, Chris Morris, Colin Ingram, Hanuma Vihari, Jalaj Saxena, B Ayyappa, Manjot Kalra, Nathu Singh, Ankush Bains
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