Cricket / List of retained players released by IPL teams ahead of mega auction

Cricket Desk: The much-awaited list of retained players of all eight teams ahead of the mega auction for Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 released on November 30 (Tuesday). The next season of the T20 extravaganza will see two new teams Lucknow and Ahmedabad competing for the elusive trophy and the competition is only get stiffer. Moreover, the new franchises will now pick three players (2 Indians and 1 overseas) in a draft by December 25 ahead of auction.

As far as the retentions are concerned, the superstars of T20 cricket – Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, MS Dhoni among others were retained by their respective franchises. Kohli and Maxwell were joined by Mohammed Siraj in the retention list for the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). On the other hand, the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) must have did well to convince Dhoni to continue playing for them and retained him eventually.

Moeen Ali, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Ravindra Jadeja are the other three players who will continue to stay with the four-time champions in the IPL. Talking of Champions, Mumbai Indians (MI) have also used their full quota of retention to stick with Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Kieron Pollard and Suryakumar Yadav. Interestingly, they have decided to let go off Hardik Pandya and Ishan Kishan who might get picked by Lucknow or Ahmedabad.

PBKS retain Mayank Agarwal and Arshdeep

As reports suggested earlier, Punjab Kings didn’t retain their skipper KL Rahul and went with Mayank Agarwal and uncapped Arshdeep Singh. Both of them did well in the last couple of years and deserved to get retained as well. Meanwhile, Rajasthan Royals were certain to retain Sanju Samson and Jos Buttler. They have added uncapped talented batter Yashasvi Jaiswal to the list.

Star players Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer will probably be playing for different teams in the next season. Delhi Capitals didn’t pull off many surprises and as reported a couple of days ago, have retained Rishabh Pant, Anrich Nortje, Prithvi Shaw and Axar Patel. Shreyas Iyer has decided to go into the auction it seems and parted ways with the franchise.

Sunrisers Hyderabad pulled off the biggest surprise by not retaining their talismanic bowler Rashid Khan. They retained skipper Kane Williamson and the J&K duo of Umran Malik and Abdul Samad who will cost them a total of Rs 23 crore with the other two being uncapped players. Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) also went with four players sticking to Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Varun Chakaravarthy and Venkatesh Iyer.

Here’s the team-wise list of retained and released players

Chennai Super Kings

Retained Players: Ravindra Jadeja (Rs 16 crore), MS Dhoni (Rs 12 crore), Moeen Ali (Rs 8 crore), Ruturak Gaikwad (Rs 6 crore)

Released Players: Faf du Plessis, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, Cheteshwar Pujara, Hari Nishanth, Dwayne Bravo, Bhagath Varma, Krishnappa Gowtham, Mitchell Santner, Robin Uthappa, N Jagadeesan, Deepak Chahar, Harishankar Reddy, Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma, KM Asif, Lungi Ngidi, R Sai Kishore, Shardul Thakur, Jason Behrendorff, Josh Hazlewood, Dominic Drakes

Purse Remaining: 48 crore

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Retained Players: Virat Kohli (Rs 15 crore), Glenn Maxwell (Rs 11 crore), Mohammed Siraj (Rs 7 crore)

Released Players: Devdutt Padikkal, Sachin Baby, Rajat Patidar, Suyash Prabhudessai, Tim David, Pavan Deshpande, Daniel Christian, Shahbaz Ahmed, AB de Villiers (retired), KS Bharat, Mohammed Azharudeen, Harshal Patel, Kyle Jamieson, Navdeep Saini, Yuzvendra Chahal, George Garton, Akash Deep

Purse Remaining: INR 57 crore

Mumbai Indians

Retained Players: Rohit Sharma (Rs 16 crore), Jasprit Bumrah (Rs 12 crore), Suryakumar Yadav (Rs 8 crore),  Kieron Pollard (Rs 6 crore)

Released Players: Chris Lynn, Anmolpreet Singh, Saurabh Tiwary, Anukul Roy, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, James Neesham, Arjun Tendulkar, Marco Jansen, Piyush Chawla, Roosh Kalaria, Quinton de Kock, Ishan Kishan, Aditya Tare, Jayan Yadav, Yudhvir Singh, Adam Milne, Dhawal Kulkarni, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rahul Chahar, Trent Boult

Purse Remaining: INR 48 crore

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Retained Players: Kane Williamson (Rs 14 crore), Abdul Samad (Rs 4 crore), Umran Malik Rs (4 crore)

Released Players: David Warner, Manish Pandey, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh, Jason Roy, Kedar Jadhav, Vijay Shankar, Sherfane Rutherford, Abhishek Sharma, Jason Holder, Mohammad Nabi, Shreevats Goswami, Wriddhiman Saha, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Basil Thampi, J Suchith, Khaleel Ahmed, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Siddarth Kaul, T Natarajan, Umran Malik

Purse Remaining: INR 68 crore

Rajasthan Royals

Retained Players: Sanju Samson (Rs 14 crore), Jos Buttler (Rs 10 crore), Yashasvi Jaiswal (Rs 4 crore)

Released Players: Liam Livingstone, Manan Vohra, David Miller, Riyan Parag, Evin Lewis, Mahipal Lomror, Rahul Tewatia, Chris Morris, Shivam Dube, Shreyas Gopal, Anuj Rawat, Glenn Phillips, Akash Singh, Chetan Sakariya, Jaydev Unadkat, Kartik Tyagi, KC Cariappa, Kuldip Yadav, Mayank Markande, Mustafizur Rahman, Tabraiz Shamsi, Oshane Thomas, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer

Purse Remaining: INR 62 crore

Kolkata Knight Riders

Retained Players: Andre Russell (Rs 12 crore), Varun Chakaravarthy (Rs 8 crore), Venkatesh Iyer (Rs 8 crore), Sunil Narine (Rs 6 crore)

Released Players: Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan, Karun Nair, Nitish Rana, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Shakib Al Hasan, Andre Russell, Ben Cutting, Pawan Negi, Shivam Mavi, Dinesh Karthik, Sheldon Jackson, Tim Seifert, Harbhajan Singh, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier, Tim Southee, Vaibhav Arora

Purse Remaining: INR 48 crore

Delhi Capitals

Retained Players: Rishabh Pant (Rs 16 crore), Axar Patel (Rs 9 crore), Prithvi Shaw (Rs 7.5 crore), Anrich Nortje (Rs 6.5 crore)

Released Players: Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Shimron Hetmyer, Steve Smith, Shreyas Iyer, Lalit Yadav, Marcus Stoinis, Ripal Patel, Ravi Ashwin, Tom Curran, Sam Billings, Vishnu Vinod, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Lukman Meriwala, Praveen Dubey, Umesh Yadav, Ben Dwarshuis, Kulwant Khejroliya

Purse Remaining: INR 47.5 crore

Punjab Kings

Retained Players: Mayank Agarwal (Rs 12 crore), Arshdeep Singh (Rs 4 crore)

Released Players: Chris Gayle, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Aiden Markram, Deepak Hooda, Moises Henriques, Jalaj Saxena, Fabian Allen, Harpreet Brar, Shahrukh Khan, Saurabh Kumar, KL Rahul, Prabhsimran Singh, Nicholas Pooran, Murugan Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Utkarsh Singh, Mohammed Shami, Ishan Porel, Darshan Nalkande, Chris Jordan, Nathan Ellis, Chris Jordan, Jhye Richardson, Riley Meredith

Purse Remaining: INR 72 crore