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IPL 2021 Auction: List of Retained and Released Players
The auction for Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 finally saw that 139 Indian cricketers were retained and 42 overseas cricketers were retained for the League 2021. Big cricketing stars like Steve Smith, Aaron Finch, and Glenn Maxwell have been released by the franchises. Some of the few big names like Dale Steyn, Harbhajan Singh had opted out while Shane Watson had already retired from all formats of the game.
Here is the list of IPL 2021 players retained and released
Chennai Super King
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Chennai Super Kings retained Players:- are M. S Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayadu, K.M Asif, Deepak Chahar, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, N. Jagadeesan, Karn Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shardul Thakur, Sam Curran, Josh Hazlewood and R. Sai Kishore.
The released players of the team are Kedar Yadav, Murali Vijay, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla, Monu Kumar, and Shane Watson.
Delhi Capitals
Delhi Capitals has released six cricketers in the auction and retained 19 cricketers. The retained cricketers are Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Prithvi Shaw, R. Ashwin, Rishabh Pant, Shikhar Dhawan, Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Lalit Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Daniel Sams, Pravin Dubey, and Chris Woakes.
The released cricketers are Alex Carey, Keemo Paul, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Lamichhane, Mohit Sharma, and Jason Roy.
Kings XI Punjab
The list of IPL 2021 players retained and released reveal that Kings XI Punjab, owned by Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, has retained 16 Indian cricketers and 3 overseas cricketers.
The retained cricketers are K.L Rahul, Arshdeep Singh, Chris Gayle, Darshan Nalkande, Harpreet Brar, Mandeep Singh, Mayank Agarwal, Md. Shami, M. Ashwin, Nicholas Pooran, Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Ishan Porel, Ravi Bishnoi, Chris Jordan, and PrabhSimran Singh.
The released cricketers by the franchise are Glenn Maxwell, Sheldon Cottrel, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Hardus Viljoen, James Neesham, K. Gowtham, Karun Nair, J. Suchith, and T. S Dhillon.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders has retained 17 Indian players while six foreign cricketers in the list of IPL 2021 players retained and released.
The retained cricketers are Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik, K. Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, L. Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Rinku Singh, Sandeep Warrior, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy, and Tim Seifert.
The released players of KKR are Chris Green, Harry Gurney, M. Siddharth, Nikhil Naik, Siddhesh Lad, and Tom Banton.
Mumbai Indians
Mumbai Indians has retained 18 Indian cricketers while four foreign cricketers.
The retained cricketers are Rohit Sharma, Aditya Tare, Anmolpreet Singh, Anukul Kulkarni, Dhawal Kulkarni, Hardik Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Jasprit Bumrah, Jayant Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Quinton de Kock, Rahul Chahar, S. Yadav, Trent Boult, Chris Lynn, Sourav Tiwari and Mohsin Khan.
The released cricketers of Mumbai Indians are P.B. Rai, D. Deshmukh, Lasith Malinga, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Pattinson, S Rutherford, and Mitchell McCleneghan.
Rajasthan Royals
The retained cricketers of Rajasthan Royals are Sanju Samson, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, M Lomror, Manan Vohra, Mayank Markande, Rahul Tewatia, Ryan Parag, Shreyas Gopal, Robin Uthappa, Jaydev Unadkat, Y Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, Kartik Tyagi, David Miller, and Andrew Tye.
The released players of the franchise are Steve Smith, Akash Singh, Aniruddha Joshi, Ankit Rajput, Oshane Thomas, S. Singh, Tom Curran, and Varun Aron.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Royal Challengers Bangalore has retained 12 Indian cricketers and four foreign players in the auction.
The retained players are Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, D Paddikal, Md. Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, Y. Chahal, Joshua Phillipe, Pavan Deshpande, Shahbaz Ahmed, Adam Zampa, and Kane Richardson.
The released players of the team are Chris Morris, Shivam Dube, Aaron Finch, Umesh Yadav, Dale Steyn, Moeen Ali, Parthiv Patel, Pawan Negi, Isuru Udana, and Gurkeerat Mann.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Retained cricketers of Sunrisers Hyderabad franchise are David Warner, Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shreevats Goswami, Siddharth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha, Virat Singh, Priyam Garg, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, and Abdul Samad.
The released cricketers of this franchise are Billy Stanlake, Sandeep Bavanaka, Fabian Allen, Sanjay Yadav, and Prithvi raj Yarra.
