Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir and Jaydev Undakat were among the cricketers who were released by their respective franchises ahead of the player auction for the 12th season of the Indian Premier League.
Unadkat was bought by Rajasthan Royals for Rs 11.5 crore during the last auction but the franchise still let him go. Delhi Daredevils expectedly released Gambhir, who stepped down as the team’s captain in the middle of the 2018 season after a poor run of form. Yuvraj, who last played for India in June 2017, was bought by Kings XI Punjab at a base price of Rs 2 crore in January.
Here is the complete list of players released, retained and traded by the eight franchises ahead of the auction:
Mumbai Indians
Retained: Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Mayank Markande, Rahul Chahar, Anukul Roy, Siddhesh Lad, Aditya Tare, Evin Lewis, Kieron Pollard, Ben Cutting, Mitchell McClenaghan, Adam Milne, Jason Behrendorff.
Released: Mustafizur Rahman, Pat Cummins, Akila Dananjaya, JP Duminy, Saurabh Tiwary, Tajinder Singh, Mohsin Khan, Pradeep Sangwan, MD Nidheesh, Sharad Lumba.
Traded in: Quinton de Kock (from RCB).
Salary cap available: Rs 11.15 crore.
Chennai Super Kings
Retained: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, M Vijay, Shane Watson, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, David Willey, Dwayne Bravo, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Sam Billings, Harbhajan Singh, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma, Dhruv Shorey, N Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi.
Released: Mark Wood, Kanishk Seth, Kshitiz Sharma.
Traded in: None.
Salary cap available: Rs 8.40 crore.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Retained: Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Chris Lynn, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shivam Mavi, Kuldeep Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Prasidh Krishna.
Released: Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson, Tom Curran, Cameron Delport, Javon Searles, Ishank Jaggi, Apoorv Wankhade, Vinay Kumar.
Traded in: None.
Salary cap available: Rs 15.20 crore.
Kings XI Punjab
Retained: Lokesh Rahul, Chris Gayle, Andrew Tye, Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Rajpoot, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Karun Nair, David Miller and Ravichandran Ashwin.
Released: Aaron Finch, Axar Patel, Mohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Barinder Sran, Ben Dwarshuis, Manoj Tiwary, Akshdeep Nath, Pardeep Sahu, Mayank Dagar and Manzoor Dar.
Traded in: Mandeep Singh (from RCB).
Traded out: Marcus Stoinis (to RCB).
Salary cap available: Rs 36.20 crore.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Retained: Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Hooda, Manish Pandey, T Natarajan, Ricky Bhui, Sandeep Sharma, Siddarth Kaul, Shreevats Goswami (wk), Khaleel Ahmed, Yusuf Pathan, Billy Stanlake, David Warner, Kane Williamson, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi.
Released: Sachin Baby, Tanmay Agarwal, Wriddhiman Saha, Chris Jordan, Carlos Brathwaite, Alex Hales, Bipul Sharma, Mehdi Hasan.
Traded in: Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem (from Delhi Daredevils).
Traded out: Shikhar Dhawan (to Delhi Daredevils).
Salary cap available: Rs 9.70 crore.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Retained: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Parthiv Patel, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Moeen Ali, Colin de Grandhomme, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya, Nathan Coulter-Nile.
Released: , Brendon McCullum, Chris Woakes, Corey Anderson, Sarfraz Khan.
Traded in: Marcus Stoinis (from KXIP).
Traded out: Mandeep Singh (to KXIP), Quinton de Kock (to Mumbai Indians).
Salary cap available: Rs 18.15 crore.
Delhi Daredevils
Retained: Shreyas Iyer, Prithvi Shaw, Rishabh Pant, Manjot Kalra, Colin Munro, Chris Morris, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Harshal Patel, Amit Mishra, Kagiso Rabada, Trent Boult, Sandeep Lamichhane, Avesh Khan.
Released: Gautam Gambhir, Jason Roy, Gurkeerat Mann, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammad Shami, Dan Christian, Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Sayan Ghosh, Liam Plunkett, Junior Dala, Naman Ojha.
Traded in: Shikhar Dhawan (from Sunrisers Hyderabad).
Traded out: Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem (to Sunrisers Hyderabad).
Salary cap available: Rs 25.5 crore.
Rajasthan Royals
Retained: Steven Smith, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Jofra Archer, Ish Sodhi, Ajinkya Rahane, K Gowtham, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Gopal, Aryaman Birla, S Midhun, Prashant Chopra, Stuart Binny, Rahul Tripathi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mahipal Lomror.
Released: Jaydev Unadkat, Anureet Singh, Ankit Sharma, Jatin Saxena, D’Arcy Short, Ben Laughlin.
Traded in: None.
Salary cap available: Rs 20.95 crore.