||Desk Report||

All eight franchises have confirmed the players that they have released or retained ahead of the twelfth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Today (November 15) was the last date for the teams to come up with their updated squads.

The auction for the next season will be held in Jaipur on December 17 and 18. Before the auction, the teams got a chance to make changes in the squad through the trade window where five teams traded seven players.

Here is a list of players who have been retained or released by the franchises:

 

CHENNAI SUPER KINGS

Retained: MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Suresh Raina, Kedar Jadhav, Dwayne Bravo, Karn Sharma, Shane Watson, Shardul Thakur, Ambati Rayudu, Murali Vijay, Harbhajan Singh, Faf Du Plessis, Sam Billings, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, Lungisani Ngidi, Asif KM, N Jagadeesan, Monu Singh, Dhruv Shorey, Chaitanya Bishnoi, David Willey

Released: Mark Wood, Kanishk Seth, Kshitiz Sharma

 

SUNRISERS HYDERBAD

Retained: David Warner, Kane Williamson, Shakib Al Hasan, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi, Billy Stanlake, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Manish Pandey, Siddharth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Deepak Hooda, Ricky Bhui, Khaleel Ahmed, Basil Thampi, Natarajan, Shreevats Goswami, Shahbaz Nadeem (Traded), Vijay Shankar (Traded), and Abhishek Sharma (Traded)

Released: Alex Hales, Carlos Brathwaite, Chris Jordan, Wriddhiman Saha, Sachin Baby, Tanmay Agarwal, Bipul Sharma, Mehdi Hasan, Shikhar Dhawan (Traded)

 

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, Tom Curran, Mitchell Johnson, Cameron Delport, Javon Searles, Ishank Jaggi, Apoorv Wankhede, Vinay Kumar

 

RAJASTHAN ROYALS

Retained: Ajinkya Rahane, Krishnappa Gowtham, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Gopal, Aryaman Birla, S. Midhun, Prashant Chopra, Stuart Binny, Rahul Tripathi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mahipal Lomror, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Steve Smith, Jofra Archer, Ish Sodhi

Released: D’Arcy Short, Ben Laughlin, Heinrich Klaasen, Dane Paterson, Zahir Khan, Dushmantha Chameera, Anureet Singh, Ankit Sharma, Jatin Saxena, Jaydev Unadkat

 

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, Quinton de Kock (Traded)

Released: Saurabh Tiwary, Pradeep Sangwan, Mohsin Khan, MD Nidheesh, Sharad Lumba, Tajinder Singh Dhillon, JP Duminy, Pat Cummins, Mustafizur Rahman, Akila Dananjaya

 

ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE