IPL 2018 complete squads

The 11th edition of the Indian Premier League will commence on 7th April at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals will join the IPL this season after a two-year exile.

The auction for the much-celebrated league started on 27th January and ended on Sunday. With the help of Direct Retention and RTM teams were allowed to retain a maximum of five players. By Direct Retention, a team could retain a maximum of three players without using the RTM option.

In the auction, England all-rounder Ben Stokes was the costliest player as Rajasthan Royals signed him for a whopping sum of 12.5 crore rupees. They also bought Jaydev Unadkat for 11.5 crore rupees, making him the most expensive Indian player.

Before the auction, a total of eighteen players were retained by the eight franchises. Here are the squads of the eight teams for IPL 2018:

Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (retained), Suresh Raina (retained), Ravindra Jadeja (retained), Faf du Plessis (RTM), Harbhajan Singh, Dwayne Bravo (RTM), Shane Watson, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma, Shardul Thakur, N Jagadeesan, Santner, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Kanishk Seth, Ngidi, Dhruv Shorey, M Vijay, Billings, Mark Wood, Kshitiz Sharma, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi

Delhi Daredevils: Shreyas Iyer (retained), Chris Morris (retained), Rishabh Pant (retained), Glenn Maxwell, Gautam Gambhir, Jason Roy, Colin Monro, Mohammed Shami (RTM), Kagiso Rabada (RTM), Amit Mishra, Prithvi Shaw, Rahul Tewatia, Vijay Shankar, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Christian, Jayant Yadav, Gurkeerat, Boult, Manjot Kalra, Abhishek Sharma, Sandeep Lamichhane, Naman Ojha, Sayan Ghosh

Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (retained), Jasprit Bumrah (retained), Hardik Pandya (retained), Kieron Pollard (RTM), Mustafizur Rehman, Pat Cummins, Suryakumar Yadav, Krunal Pandya (RTM), Ishan Kishan, Rahul Chahar, Evin Lewis, Saurabh Tiwary, Ben Cutting, Pradeep Sangwan, JP Duminy, Jason Behrendoff, Tajinder Singh Dhillon, Sharad Lumba, Siddesh Lad, Tare, Mayank Markande, Akila Dhananjaya, Anukul Roy, Mohsin Khan, Nidheesh

Kolkata Knight Riders: Andre Russell (retained), Sunil Narine (retained), Mitchell Starc, Chris Lynn, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa (RTM), Mitchell Johnson, Piyush Chawla (RTM), Kuldeep Yadav (RTM), Shubman Gill, Ishank Jaggi, Kamlesh Nagarkotti, Nitish Rana, Vinay Kumar, Apoorv Wankhade, Rinku Singh, Shivam Mavi, Cameron Delport, Javon Searles

Rajasthan Royals: Steve Smith (retained), Ben Stokes, Ajinkya Rahane (RTM), Stuart Binny, Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Rahul Tripathi, Darcy Short, Jofra Archer, K Gowtham, Dhawal Kulkarni (RTM), Unadkat, Ankit Sharma, Anureet Singh, Zahir Khan, Shreyas Gopal, Prashant Chopra, Midhun, Laughlin, Mahipal Lomror, Aryaman Birla, Jatin Saxena, Dushmanta Chameera

Kings XI Punjab: Axar Patel (retained), Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuvraj Singh, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Gayle, Miller, Aaron Finch(RTM), Marcus Stoinis (RTM), Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Rajpoot, Manoj Tiwary, Mohit Sharma (RTM), Mujeeb Zadran, Sran, Tye, Akshdeep Nath, Dwarshuis, Pardeep Sahu, Mayank Dagar, Manzoor Dar

Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner (retained), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (retained), Shikhar Dhawan (RTM), Shakib Al Hasan, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Carlos Brathwaite, Yusuf Pathan, Wriddhiman Saha, Rashid Khan (RTM), Ricky Bhui, Deepak Hooda (RTM), Siddharth Kaul, T Natarajan, Mohammad Nabi, Basil Thampi, Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Sachin Baby, Chris Jordan, Stanlake, Tanmay Agarwal, Sreevats Goswami, Bipul Sharma, Mehedi Hasan

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (retained), AB de Villiers (retained), Sarfaraz Khan (retained), McCullum, Woakes, de Greandhomme, Moeen Ali, de Kock, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal (RTM), Vohra, Kulwant Khejroliya, Aniket Choudhary, Navdeep Saini, M Ashwin, Mandeep Singh, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi (RTM), Siraj, Coulter-Nile, Southee, Parthiv Patel, Aniruddha Joshi, Pavan Deshpande