It was curtain🦂s for the pre-season tr🅰ading window of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019 on Thursday.
All the eight franchises have done some choppi🦩ng and brought s𓆉ome changes to their squad ahead of the auction slated to take place in mid-December.
More than 50 players have been released overall and this means that the auctio♓n for the next season will be an extreme🎃ly exciting one.
With each team having announced its squad going into the auction, let’s take a look at the complete list of players who have been released and retained by each franchise.
Chennai Super Kings:
Retained: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, M Vijay, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Billings, Mitchell San✨tner, David Willey, Dwayne Bravo, Shan🎃e Watson, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Harbhajan Singh, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Karn Sharma, Dhruv Shorey, N Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi
Released: Mark Wood, Kanishk Seth, Kshitiz Sharma
Mumbai Indians:
Retained: Rohit Sharma (C), Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Mayank Markande, Rahulꦍ Chahar, Anuk✅ul Roy, Siddhesh Lad, Aditya Tare, Quinton de Kock, Evin Lewis, Kieron Pollard, Ben Cutting, Mitchell McClenaghan, Adam Milne, Jason Behrendorff.
Released: Saurabh Tiwary, Pradeep Sangwan, Mohsin Khan, MD Nidheesh, Sharad L꧋umba, Tajinder Singh Dhillon, JP Duminy, Pat Cummins, Mustafizur Rahman, Akila Dan♓anjaya.
Kolkata Knight Riders:
Retained: Dinesh Karthik, Robin U🌺thappa, 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, Ishank Jaggi, Vinay Kumar, Apoorv Wankhade,🦹 Ja✱von Searles
Rajasthan Royals:
Retained: Ajinkya Rahane, Krishnappa Gowtham, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Gopal, Aryaman Birla, S. Midhun, Prashant Chopra, Stuart Binny, Rahul Tripathi, Ben Stokes, Steve Smith, Jos Buttler, Jofra Archerꦗ, Ish Sodhi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mah♒ipal Lomror.
Released: D’Arcy Short, Ben Laughlin, Heinrich Klaasen, Dane Paterson, Zahi👍r Khan, Dushmantha Chameera, Jaydev Unadkat, Anureet Singh, Ankit Sharma, Jatin Saxena.
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 Nabiღ, Shakib Al Hasan
Released: Sachin Baby, Tanmay Agarwal, Wriddhiman Saha, Chris Jordan, Carlos Brath🐟waite, Alex Hales, Bipul Shaཧrma, Mehdi Hasan
Traded:🌠 Shikhar Dhawan to Delhi Daredevils for Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem
Kings XI Punjab:
Retained: Lokesh Rahul, Chris Gayle, Andrew Tye, Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Rajpoot, Mujeeb Ur Rah♔𝕴man, 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: Marcus Stoinis for Mandeep Singh
Royal Challengers Bangalore:
Retained: Virat Kohli (C), AB de Villiers, Parthiv Patel,⛎ Washington𝐆 Sundar, Pawan Negi, Moeen Ali, Colin de Grandhomme, Marcus Stoinis (Traded), Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya, Nathan Coulter-Nile.
Released: Corey Ander♊son,🐟 Brendon McCullum, Chris Woakes, Sarfraz Khan, Quinton de Kock.
Traded: Mandeep Singh for Marcus Stoinis
Delhi Daredevils:
Retained: Shreyas Iyer, Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan (traded), Rishabh Pant, Manjot Kalra, Co🐼lin Munro, Chris Morris, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Harshal Patel, Amit Mishra, Kagiso Rabada, Trent Boult, Sandeไep Lamichhane, Avesh Khan.
Released: Gau𝔉tam Gambhir, Jason Roy, Gurkeerat Mann, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammad Shami, Dan Christian, Sayan Ghosh, Liam Plunkett, Junior Dala, Naman Ojha.
Traded: Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma and Sh♔ahbaz Nadeem to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Shikhar Dhawan.
