The window for the eight IPL franchises to retain players for the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) closed on Wednesday (January 20).
In total, 139 players were retained by the eight franchises while 57 players were released f♐rom their current squads.
There were some big players released as Rajasthan Royals (RR) bid farewell to Australian star Steve Smith, with Sanju Samson named as captain for the upcoming edition.
Lasith Malinga, Aaron Finch, Glenn Maxwell and Chris Morris were some other big names let 𓂃go of by their respective teams.
Defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) retained a majority of their core group that helped them win IPL 2020, wheꦰreas released seven players.
Here’s how the squads look like after the player retentions for IPL 2021:
Chennai Super Kings
MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, KM Asif, Deepak Chahar, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, N Jagadeesan, Karn Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Ja💙deja, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shardul Tha🌱kur, Sam Curran, Josh Hazlewood, R Sai Kishore
Delhi Capitals
Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Prithvi Shaw, R Ashwin, Rishabh Pantꦗ, Shikhar Dhawan, Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Lalit Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Daniel Sams, Pravin Dubey, Chris Woakes
Kings XI Punjab
KL Rahul, Arshdeep Singh, Chris Gayle, Darshan Nalkande, Harpreet Brar, Mandeep Singh, Mayank Agarwal, 𓆉Mohd. Shami, M Ashwin, Nicholas Pooran, Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Ishan Porel, Ravi Bis♊hnoi, Chris Jordan, Prabhsimran Singh
Kolkata Knight Riders
Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Rinku Singh, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Sunil🌌 Narine, Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakrava❀rthy, Tim Seifert
Mumbai Indians
Rohit Sharma, Aditya Tare, Anmolpreet ജSingh, Anukul Roy🧸, Dhawal Kulkarni, Hardik Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Jasprit Bumrah, Jayant Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Quinton de Kock, Rahul Chahar, Suryakumar Yadav, Trent Boult, Chris Lynn, Saurabh Tiwary, Mohsin Khan
Rajasthan Royals
Sanju Samson, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Mahipal Lomror, Manan Vohraℱ, Mayank Markande, Rahul Tewatia, Riyan Parag, Shreyas Gopal, Robin Uthappa, Jaydev Unadkat, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, Kartik Tyagi, Da♔vid Miller, Andrew Tye
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, ꦅDevdutt Padikkal, Md. Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Joshua Phillipe, Paဣvan Deshpande, Shahbaz Ahmed, Adam Zampa, Kane Richardson
Sunrisers Hyderabad
David Warner, Abhishek Sharma, Basil T🍬hampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed꧃, T Natarajan, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha, Virat Singh, Priyam Garg, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Abdul Samad.
