For the upcoming IPL tournament 2023, a whopping total of 87 players were released across the franchise as the teams look forward to great opportunities in the auction to reassemble their teams. The mini-auction will take place on December 23 in Kochi.
To better their chances of winning franchises have started to let go of some players. With the retirement of a veteran all-rounder Kieron Pollard from IPL on Tuesday hours before the retention deadline. Mumbai Indians decided to let go of 12 players and transform the whole team. While the other teams have also released a few players, such as the release of Mayank Agarwal from Punjab Kings, Kane Williamson from Sunrise Hyderabad and Dwayne Bravo from Chennai Super Kings.
IPL Retention list 2023
1. Chennai Super Kings
Players Released include: Dwayne Bravo, Robin Uthappa, Adam Milne, Hari Nishaanth, Chris Jordan, Bhagath Varma, KM Asif, Narayan Jagadeesan
Players in the current squad: MS Dhoni (Captain), Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Subhranshu Senapati, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Tushar Deshpande, Mukesh Chowdhary, Matheesha Pathirana, Simarjeet Singh, Deepak Chahar, Prashant Solanki, Mahesh Theekshana
Purse remaining: INR 20.45 crore
2. Mumbai Indians
Overseas slots remaining: 3
Released Players include: Kieron Pollard, Anmolpreet Singh, Aryan Juyal, Basil Thampi, Daniel Sams, Fabian Allen, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Murugan Ashwin, Rahul Buddhi, Riley Meredith, Sanjay Yadav, Tymal Mills
Players in the current squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Tim David, Ramandeep Singh, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, Jofra Archer, Jasprit Bumrah, Arjun Tendulkar, Arshad Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Hrithik Shokeen, Jason Behrendorff, Akash Madhwal
Purse remaining: INR 20.55 crore
3. Sunrisers Hyderabad
with 4 Overseas slots remaining
Released Players include: Kane Williamson, Nicholas Pooran, Jagadeesha Suchith, Priyam Garg, Ravikumar Samarth, Romario Shepherd, Saurabh Dubey, Sean Abbott, Shashank Singh, Shreyas Gopal, Sushant Mishra, the Vishnu Vinod
Players in the current team include: Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kartik Tyagi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik
Purse remaining: INR 42.25 crore
4. Delhi Capitals
Overseas slots remaining: 2
Released Players: Shardul Thakur, Tim Seifert, Ashwin Hebbar, KS Bharat, Mandeep Singh
Players in the current squad: Rishabh Pant (Captain), David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Ripal Patel, Rovman Powell, Sarfaraz Khan, Yash Dhull, Mitchell Marsh, Lalit Yadav, Axar Patel, Anrich Nortje, Chetan Sakariya, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Khaleel Ahmed, Lungi Ngidi, Mustafizur Rahman, Aman Khan, Kuldeep Yadav, Praveen Dubey, Vicky Ostwal
Purse remaining: INR 19.45 crore
5. Rajasthan Royals
Overseas slots remaining: 4
Released Players include: Anunay Singh, Corbin Bosch, Daryl Mitchell, James Neesham, Karun Nair, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rassie van der Dussen, Shubham Garhwal, Tejas Barok
Players in the current squad: Sanju Samson n (Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Jos Buttler, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Prasidh Krishna, Trent Boult, Obed McCoy, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Sen, Kuldip Yadav, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, KC Cariappa
Purse remaining: INR 13.2 crore
6. Royal Challengers Bangalore
Overseas slots remaining: 2
Released Players include: Jason Behrendorff, Aneeshwar Gautham, Chama Milind, Luvnith Sisodia, Sherfane Rutherford
Players in the current squad: Faf du Plessis (Captain), Virat Kohli, Suyash Prabhudessai, Rajat Patidar, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat, Finn Allen, Glenn Maxwell, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shahbaz Ahmed, Harshal Patel, David Willey, Karn Sharma, Mahipal Lomror, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood, Siddarth Kaul, Akash Deep
Purse remaining: INR 8.75 crore
7. Lucknow Super Giants
Overseas slots remaining: 4
Released Players include: Andrew Tye, Ankit Rajpoot, Dushmantha Chameera, Ethe vin Lewis, Jason Holder, Manish Pandey, Shahbaz Nadeem
Players in the current squad: KL Rahul (captcha ain), Ayush Badoni, Karan Sharma, Manan Vohra, Quinton de Kock, Marcus Stoinis, Krishnappa Gowtham, Deepak Hooda, Kyle Mayers, Krunal Pandya, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Mark Wood, Mayank Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi
Purse remaining: INR 23.35 crore
8. Gujarat Titans
Overseas slots remaining: 3
Released Players include: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Lockie Ferguson, Dominic Drakes, Gurkeerat Singh, Jason Roy, Varthe un Aaron
Players in the current squad: Hardik Pandya (Captain), Shubman Gill, David Miller, Abhinav Manohar, Sai Sudharsan, Wriddhiman Saha, Matthew Wade, Rashid Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Vijay Shankar, Mohammed Shami, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Pradeep Sangwan, Darshan Nalkande, Jayant Yadav, R Sai Kishore, Noor Ahmad.
Purse remaining: INR 19.25
9. Kolkata Knight Riders
Overseas slots remaining: 3
Released Players include Pat Cummins, Sam Billings, Aman Khan, Shivam Mavi, Mohammad Nabi, Chamika Karunaratne, Aaron Finch, Alex Hales, Abhijeet Tomar, Ajinkya Rahane, Ashok Sharma, Baba Indrajith, Pratham Singh, Ramesh Kumar, Rasikh Salam, Sheldon Jackson.
Players in the current squad: Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh.
Purse remaining: INR 7.05 crore
This year Kolkata Knight Riders KKR continue to spend money on trading players they signed their third trade for peace bowling all wrong rounder Shardul Thakur before the announcement of the IPL retention list 2023 KKR have traded Shardul from Delhi capitals and liberating their purse by INR 10.75 crore. DC also had spent a huge amount on the talented player at the auction before his performance for Chennai Super Kings.
As part of the deal, for a fee of rupees 20 lakh Aman Khan has traded from KKR to DC.
10. Punjab Kings
Overseas slots remaining: 3
Released Players include Mayank Agarwal, Odean Smith, Vaibhav Arora, Benny Howell, Ishan Porel, Ansh Patel, Prerak Mankad, Sandeep Sharma, Writtick Chatterjee.
Players in the current squad: Shikhar Dhawan (C), Shahrukh Khan, Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jitesh Sharma, Raj Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Baltej Singh, Nathan Ellis, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Brar.
Purse remaining: INR 32.2 crore
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