All ten Indian Premier League teams submitted their lists of retained and released players on the retention deadline day. Hardik Pandya stayed with Gujarat Titans to silence all the reported talks of his return to Mumbai Indians but there were few big names released by other teams on Sunday, November 26.
Mumbai Indians have finally Hardik Pandya and have retained the majority of their batting unit. They released the start of English pacer Jofra Archer and four other overseas pacers Duan Jansen, Jhye Richardson, Riley Meredith and Chris Jordan. Mumbai Indians will enter next month's IPL 2024 player auction with a remaining purse amount of INR 17.75 Crore.
Royal Challengers Bangalore also made some surprise releases on retention deadline day. RCB released overseas stars Josh Hazlewood and Wanindu Hasaranga, and Indian pacer Harshal Patel. They managed to retain veteran wicketkeeper batter but released overseas players Finn Allen, Michael Bracewell, David Willey and Wayne Parnell. RCB have now traded Cameron Green in from MI. RCB will go into the IPL 2024 player auction with INR 23.25 crore.
Mumbai Indians:
Players released: Jofra Archer, Tristan Stubbs, Arshad Khan, Ramandeep Singh, Hrithik Shokeen, Raghav Goyal, Duan Jansen, Jhye Richardson, Riley Meredith, Chris Jordan, Sandeep Warrier
Players retained: Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Cameron Green, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Akash Madhwal, Jason Behrendorff, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla
Players traded: Romario Shepherd (from LSG), Hardik Pandya (in from GT)
Remaining Purse: INR 17.75 Crore.
Gujarat Titans:
Players released: Alzarri Joseph, Odean Smith, Dasun Shanaka, Yash Dayal, KS Bharat, Shivam Mavi, Urvil Patel, Pradeep Sangwan
Players retained: Shubman Gill (C), David Miller, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, B Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Mohammed Shami, Noor Ahmad, R Sai Kishore, Rashid Khan, Josh Little, Mohit Sharma
Players traded: Hardik Pandya (to MI)
Remaining Purse: INR 38.15 crore
Royal Challengers Bangalore:
Players released: Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Josh Hazlewood, Finn Allen, Michael Bracewell, David Willey, Wayne Parnell, Sonu Yadav, Avinash Singh, Siddharth Kaul, Kedar Jadhav
Players retained: Faf du Plessis (c), Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Suyash Prabhudessai, Will Jacks, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar, Vyshak Vijaykumar
Players traded: Mayank Dagar (from SRH), Cameron Green (from MI)
Remaining Purse: INR 23.25 crore
Chennai Super Kings:
Players released: Ambati Rayudu (retired), Ben Stokes (pulled out), Dwaine Pretorius, Bhagath Varma, Subhranshu Senapati, Akash Singh, Kyle Jamieson, Sisanda Magala
Players retained: MS Dhoni (c), Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Nishant Sindhu, Ajay Mandal, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Deepak Chahar, Maheesh Theekshana, Mukesh Chowdhary, Prashant Solanki, Simarjeet Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Matheesha Pathirana
Players traded: None
Remaining Purse: INR 31.40 crore
Kolkata Knight Riders:
Players released: Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Shardul Thakur, Mandeep Singh, Kulwant Khejroliya, N Jagadeesan, David Wiese, Aarya Desai, Litton Das, Johnson Charles, Shakib Al Hasan
Players retained: Shreyas Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Jason Roy, Anukul Roy, Andre Russel, Venkatesh Iyer, Suyash Sharma, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy
Players traded: None
Remaining Purse: INR 32.70 crore
Delhi Capitals:
Players released: Rilee Rossouw, Chetan Sakariya, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Phil Salt, Mustafizur Rahman, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ripal Patel, Sarfaraz Khan, Aman Khan, Priyam Garg
Players retained: Rishabh Pant, David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Yash Dhull, Abishek Porel, Axar Patel, Lalit Yadav, Mitchell Marsh, Pravin Dubey, Vicky Ostwal, Anrich Nortje, Kuldeep Yadav, Lungi Ngidi, Khaleel Ahmed, Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar
Players traded: None
Remaining Purse: INR 28.95 crore
Punjab Kings:
Players released: Shahrukh Khan, Raj Bawa, Baltej Dhanda, Mohit Rathee, Bhanuka Rajapaksa
Players retained: Shikhar Dhawan, Jitesh Sharma, Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Liam Livingstone, Matthew Short, Harpreet Bhatia, Atharva Taide, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Shivam Singh, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Nathan Ellis, Rahul Chahar, Gurnoor Brar, Vidwath Kaverappa
Players traded: None
Remaining Purse: INR 29.01 crore
Sunrisers Hyderabad:
Players released: Harry Brook, Adil Rashid, Akeal Hosein, Karthik Tyagi, Vivrant Sharma, Samarth Vyas
Players retained: Aiden Markram (c), Abdul Samad, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Agarwal, Heinrich Klaasen, Anmolpreet Singh, Upendra Yadav, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, Sanvir Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, T Natarajan, Umran Malik, Mayank Markande
Players traded: Shahbaz Ahmed (from RCB)
Remaining Purse: INR 34.00 crore
Rajasthan Royals:
Players released: Joe Root (pulled out), Abdul Basith, Jason Holder, Akash Vashisht, Kuldip Yadav, Obed McCoy, M Ashwin, KC Cariappa, KM Asif
Players retained: Sanju Samson (c), Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, R Ashwin, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Prasidh Krishna
Players traded: Avesh Khan (From LSG)
Remaining Purse: INR 14.5 crore
Lucknow Super Giants:
Players released: Daniel Sams, Karun Nair, Jaydev Unadkat, Manan Vohra, Karan Sharma, Suryansh Shedge, Swapnil Singh, Arpit Guleria
Players retained: KL Rahul (c), Quinton de Kock, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Deepak Hooda, K Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Prerak Mankad, Yudhvir Singh, Mark Wood, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Naveen-ul-Haq
Players traded: Devdutt Padikkal (From RR)
Remaining Purse: INR 13.9 crore