The suspense over Hardik Pandya’s anticipated move from Gujarat Titans to his Indian Premier League alma mater Mumbai Indians persisted even after the player retention list was made official on Sunday.
Hardik, who has led the Gujarat Titans to a title and a runners-up run in its first two seasons, was included in the Titans’ retained list. However, with the player trading window to remain open until December 12, the likelihood of him being traded out to Mumbai Indians still persists.
Interestingly, after releasing 11 players and adding Romario Shepherd as a traded player, Mumbai Indians has an auction purse of Rs. 15.25 crore remaining at the moment. Should Hardik’s deal go through, it will have 18 players - minimum squad size required - and just 25 lakh going into the player auction scheduled on December 19.
Meanwhile, Ben Stokes (Chennai Super Kings), Harry Brook (Sunrisers Hyderabad), Wanindu Hasaranga (Royal Challengers Bangalore), Shardul Thakur (Kolkata Knight Riders) and Shahrukh Khan (Punjab Kings) were among the big-ticket signings who were released by their respective franchises.
Contrary to speculation, allrounders Andre Russell and Sam Curran were retained by KKR and PBKS, respectively.
Chennai Super Kings
Released: Ambati Rayudu, Ben Stokes, Dwaine Pretorious, Bhagath Varma, Subhranshu Senapati, Akash Singh, Kyle Jamieson, Sisanda Magala.
Retained: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Nishant Sindhu, Ajay Mandal, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Deepak Chahar, Maheesh Theekshana, Mukesh Chowdhary, Prashant Solanki, Simarjeet Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Matheesha Pathirana.
Available purse: Rs. 31.40 crore
Delhi Capitals
Released: Rilee Rossouw, Chetan Sakariya, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Phil Salt, Mustafizur Rahman, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ripal Patel, Sarfaraz Khan, Aman Khan, Priyam Garg.
Retained: Rishabh Pant, David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Yash Dhull, Abishek Porel, Axar Patel, Lalit Yadav, Mitchell Marsh, Pravin Dubey, Vicky Ostwal, Anrich Nortje, Kuldeep Yadav, Lungi Ngidi, Khaleel Ahmed, Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar.
Available purse: Rs. 28.95 crore
Gujarat Titans
Released: Alzarri Joseph, Odean Smith, Dasun Shanaka, Yash Dayal, K.S. Bharat, Shivam Mavi, Urvil Patel, Pradeep Sangwan
Retained: David Miller, Shubman Gill, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Hardik Pandya, Abhinav Manohar, B Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Mohammed Shami, Noor Ahmad, R Sai Kishore, Rashid Khan, Joshua Little, Mohit Sharma.
Available purse: Rs. 13.85 crore.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Released: Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Shardul Thakur, Mandeep Singh, Kulwant Khejroliya, N Jagadeesan, David Wiese, Aarya Desai, Litton Das, Johnson Charles, Shakib Al Hasan.
Retained: Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Shreyas Iyer, , Jason Roy, Anukul Roy, Andre Russel, Venkatesh Iyer, Suyash Sharma, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy
Available purse: Rs. 32.70 crore
Lucknow Super Giants
Released: Daniel Sams, Karun Nair, Jaydev Unadkat, Manan Vohra, Karan Sharma, Suryansh Shedge, Swapnil Singh, Arpit Guleria.
Traded out : Romario Shepherd, Avesh Khan.
Players retained: K.L. Rahul, Quinton de Kock, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Deepak Hooda, K. Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Prerak Mankad, Yudhvir Singh, Mark Wood, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Naveen-ul-Haq.
Traded in: Devdutt Padikkal.
Available purse: Rs. 13.90 crore.
Mumbai Indians
Released: Arshad Khan, Ramandeep Singh, Hrithik Shokeen, Raghav Goyal, Jofra Archer, Tristan Stubbs, Duan Jansen, Jhye Richardson, Riley Meredith, Chris Jordan, Sandeep Warrier.
Retained: Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Cameron Green, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Jason Behrendorff.
Traded in: Romario Shepherd.
Available purse: Rs. 15.25 crore.
Punjab Kings
Released: Shahrukh Khan, Raj Bawa, Baltej Dhanda, Mohit Rathee, Bhanuka Rajapaksa
Retained: Shikhar Dhawan, Jitesh Sharma, Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Shivam Singh, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Nathan Ellis, Rahul Chahar, Vidwath Kaverappa, Harpreet Bhatia.
Available purse: Rs. 29.10 crore
Rajasthan Royals
Released: Joe Root, Abdul Basith, Jason Holder, Akash Vashisht, Kuldip Yadav, Obed McCoy, M. Ashwin, K.C. Cariappa, K.M. Asif.
Traded out: Devdutt Padikkal.
Players retained: Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, R. Ashwin, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Prasidh Krishna.
Traded in: Avesh Khan.
Available purse: Rs. 14.50 crore.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Released: Harry Brook, Adil Rashid, Akeal Hosein, Karthik Tyagi, Vivrant Sharma, Samarth Vyas. Traded out: Mayank Dagar.
Retained: Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Agarwal, Heinrich Klaasen, Anmolpreet Singh, Upendra Yadav, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, Sanvir Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, T Natarajan, Umran Malik, Mayank Markande.
Traded in: Shahbaz Ahmed.
Available purse: Rs. 34 crore.
