The IPL 2021 player retention event is taking place with some major decisions taken by the franchises.
Manoj Badale, RR's co-owner, confirms that Samson will take over from Smith as the franchise's captain. He also says that they've appointed Kumar Sangakkara as their team director according to foreign news.
Franchises like Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings, Kings XI Punjab, Rajasthan Royals, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Delhi Capitals, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders put out a list of players whom they want to retain or whom they want to release for the upcoming auction that will be held on February 11.
This will be the mini-auction and not the mega-auction for IPL 2022 in which there will be 10 teams and the majority of the players will be put in the auction pool. There were some interesting developments and it gives an indication as to what the franchises are thinking ahead of the IPL 2021.
Rajasthan Royals have released Steve Smith ahead of IPL 2021, with all the eight franchises set to soon announce the list of players they have retained ahead of the next auction, scheduled to be held next month.
Ahead of the retention, Harbhajan Singh took to Twitter to announce that his contract with the three-time IPL champions Chennai Super Kings has ended. News agency ANI reported that CSK have retained their star all-rounder Suresh Raina while the likes of Kedar Jadhav and Piyush Chawla are set to be left out.
Both Jadhav and Chawla failed in the 13th edition of the T20 tournament, which was held in the United Arab Emirates due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Chennai Super Kings, the three-time champions who finished in the seventh position in the IPL 2020, will reportedly be releasing plenty of players as they look to revamp their squad.
Mumbai Indians
Defending champions Mumbai Indians are understood to have decided to release the pair of Lasith Malinga and Sherfane Rutherford. Malinga, the leading wicket-taker in the IPL, had opted out of the 2020 season due to his father’s ailing health at the time.
Malinga was bought by Mumbai in 2019 for INR 20 million, after the Sri Lankan bowling great sat out in 2018. He brought all his experience to deny the Super Kings the title with a superlative last over in 2019. It was the third time the Super Kings had fallen prey to Malinga having bowled successful final overs in 2013 and 2015 IPL finals to hand Mumbai the titles.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Sri Lankan Isuru Udana has been released by RCB.
RCB have released Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Aaron Finch, Chris Morris, Pavan Negi, Parthiv Patel, Dale Steyn, Isuru Udana, Umesh Yadav from their squad for IPL 2021.
Royal Challengers Bangalore have retained 12 players from their 2020 squad.
Earlier this month, veteran South African speedster Dale Steyn announced that he won't be featuring in the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League. He stated that he was taking some time off, clarifying that he isn't retiring.
Rajasthan Royals
Rajasthan Royals have released skipper Steve Smith from their squad ahead of the next auction.
Kings XI Punjab
KXIP release Maxwell - the franchise has decided to release the Australian all-rounder.
The report further states that Sheldon Cottrell, K Gowtham, Mueeb ur Rahman, Jimmy Neesham, Hardus Viljoen and Karun Nair are among the released players.
Chennai Super Kings
Former Indian all-rounder Suresh Raina would be retained by Chennai Super Kings according to reports.
CSK have released - Piyush Chawla, Kedar Jadhav, M Vijay, Harbhajan Singh, Monu Kumar Singh, and Shane Watson (retired from all cricket)
Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh has announced the end of his contract with IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings. The off-spinner did not feature in IPL 2020 due to personal reasons.
Kolkata Knight Riders
KKR skipper Eoin Morgan has expressed his desire to retain the core of the franchise, which indicates that the team might not for any major releases ahead of IPL 2021.
Delhi Capital
In one of the first trades of the 2021 IPL, Delhi Capitals are trading the Australian left-arm fast bowler Daniel Sams to Royal Challengers Bangalore. It is understood the trade is an all-cash deal.
UPDATED INFORMATION ON TEAMS
Mumbai Indians
Retained Players - Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan (WK), Chris Lynn, Anmolpreet Singh, Saurabh Tiwary, Aditya Tare (WK), Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan
Released Players: Lasith Malinga, Mitch McClenaghan, James Pattinson, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Sherfane Rutherford, Prince Balwant Rai, Digivijay Deshmukh.
Delhi Capitals
Retained Players: Shreyas Iyer (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Prithvi Shaw, R Ashwin, Rishabh Pant, Shikhar Dhawan, Lalit Yadav, Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Daniels Sams, Anrich Nortje.
Released Players: Alex Carey, Keemo Paul, Sandeep Lamichhane, Tushar Deshpande, Mohit Sharma.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Retained Players: David Warner (c), Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, 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, Abdul Samad, Mitchell Marsh, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh.
Released Players: Sanjay Yadav, B Sandeep, Billy Stanlake, Fabian Allen, Yarra Prithviraj
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Retained Players: Virat Kohli (c), AB de Villiers, Devdutt Padikkal, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Joshua Philippe, Pavan Deshpande, Shahbaz Ahamad, Adam Zampa
Released Players: Chris Morris, Aaron Finch, Moeen Ali, Isuru Udana, Dale Steyn, Shivam Dube, Umesh Yadav, Pawan Negi, Gurkeerat Mann, Parthiv Patel.
Kings XI Punjab
Retained Players: KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Nicholas Pooran, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Prabhsimran Singh, Mohammed Shami, Chris Jordan, Darshan Nalkande, Ravi Bishnoi, Murugan Ashwin, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Ishan Porel
Released Players: Glenn Maxwell, Karun Nair, Hardus Viljoen, Jagadeesha Suchith, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Sheldon Cottrell, Jimmy Neesham, Krishnappa Gowtham, Tajinder Singh.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Retained Players: Dinesh Karthik, Andre Russell, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Rinku Singh, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Eoin Morgan (c), Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Tom Banton, Varun Chakravarthy.
Released Players: M Siddharth, Nikhil Naik, Siddhesh Lad, Chris Green, Tom Banton.
Chennai Super Kings
Retained Players: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Dwayne Bravo, Josh Hazlewood, Sam Curran, KM Asif, Deepak Chahar, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, N Jagadeesan, Karn Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shardul Thakur, R Sai Kishore.
Released Players: Piyush Chawla, Harbhajan Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Murali Vijay, Monu Singh, Shane Watson
Rajasthan Royals
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Retained Players: Sanju Samson, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Riyan Parag, Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror, Kartik Tyagi, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, David Miller, Manan Vohra, Robin Uthappa
Released Players: Steve Smith, Ankit Rajpoot, Oshane Thomas, Akash Singh, Varun Aaron, Tom Curran, Anirudha Joshi, Shashank Singh
Manoj Badale, RR's co-owner, confirms that Samson will take over from Smith as the franchise's captain. He also says that they've appointed Kumar Sangakkara as their team director according to foreign news.
Franchises like Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings, Kings XI Punjab, Rajasthan Royals, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Delhi Capitals, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders put out a list of players whom they want to retain or whom they want to release for the upcoming auction that will be held on February 11.
This will be the mini-auction and not the mega-auction for IPL 2022 in which there will be 10 teams and the majority of the players will be put in the auction pool. There were some interesting developments and it gives an indication as to what the franchises are thinking ahead of the IPL 2021.
Rajasthan Royals have released Steve Smith ahead of IPL 2021, with all the eight franchises set to soon announce the list of players they have retained ahead of the next auction, scheduled to be held next month.
Ahead of the retention, Harbhajan Singh took to Twitter to announce that his contract with the three-time IPL champions Chennai Super Kings has ended. News agency ANI reported that CSK have retained their star all-rounder Suresh Raina while the likes of Kedar Jadhav and Piyush Chawla are set to be left out.
Both Jadhav and Chawla failed in the 13th edition of the T20 tournament, which was held in the United Arab Emirates due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Chennai Super Kings, the three-time champions who finished in the seventh position in the IPL 2020, will reportedly be releasing plenty of players as they look to revamp their squad.
Mumbai Indians
Defending champions Mumbai Indians are understood to have decided to release the pair of Lasith Malinga and Sherfane Rutherford. Malinga, the leading wicket-taker in the IPL, had opted out of the 2020 season due to his father’s ailing health at the time.
Malinga was bought by Mumbai in 2019 for INR 20 million, after the Sri Lankan bowling great sat out in 2018. He brought all his experience to deny the Super Kings the title with a superlative last over in 2019. It was the third time the Super Kings had fallen prey to Malinga having bowled successful final overs in 2013 and 2015 IPL finals to hand Mumbai the titles.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Sri Lankan Isuru Udana has been released by RCB.
RCB have released Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Aaron Finch, Chris Morris, Pavan Negi, Parthiv Patel, Dale Steyn, Isuru Udana, Umesh Yadav from their squad for IPL 2021.
Royal Challengers Bangalore have retained 12 players from their 2020 squad.
Earlier this month, veteran South African speedster Dale Steyn announced that he won't be featuring in the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League. He stated that he was taking some time off, clarifying that he isn't retiring.
Rajasthan Royals
Rajasthan Royals have released skipper Steve Smith from their squad ahead of the next auction.
Kings XI Punjab
KXIP release Maxwell - the franchise has decided to release the Australian all-rounder.
The report further states that Sheldon Cottrell, K Gowtham, Mueeb ur Rahman, Jimmy Neesham, Hardus Viljoen and Karun Nair are among the released players.
Chennai Super Kings
Former Indian all-rounder Suresh Raina would be retained by Chennai Super Kings according to reports.
CSK have released - Piyush Chawla, Kedar Jadhav, M Vijay, Harbhajan Singh, Monu Kumar Singh, and Shane Watson (retired from all cricket)
Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh has announced the end of his contract with IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings. The off-spinner did not feature in IPL 2020 due to personal reasons.
Kolkata Knight Riders
KKR skipper Eoin Morgan has expressed his desire to retain the core of the franchise, which indicates that the team might not for any major releases ahead of IPL 2021.
Delhi Capital
In one of the first trades of the 2021 IPL, Delhi Capitals are trading the Australian left-arm fast bowler Daniel Sams to Royal Challengers Bangalore. It is understood the trade is an all-cash deal.
UPDATED INFORMATION ON TEAMS
Mumbai Indians
Retained Players - Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan (WK), Chris Lynn, Anmolpreet Singh, Saurabh Tiwary, Aditya Tare (WK), Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan
Released Players: Lasith Malinga, Mitch McClenaghan, James Pattinson, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Sherfane Rutherford, Prince Balwant Rai, Digivijay Deshmukh.
Delhi Capitals
Retained Players: Shreyas Iyer (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Prithvi Shaw, R Ashwin, Rishabh Pant, Shikhar Dhawan, Lalit Yadav, Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Daniels Sams, Anrich Nortje.
Released Players: Alex Carey, Keemo Paul, Sandeep Lamichhane, Tushar Deshpande, Mohit Sharma.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Retained Players: David Warner (c), Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, 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, Abdul Samad, Mitchell Marsh, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh.
Released Players: Sanjay Yadav, B Sandeep, Billy Stanlake, Fabian Allen, Yarra Prithviraj
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Retained Players: Virat Kohli (c), AB de Villiers, Devdutt Padikkal, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Joshua Philippe, Pavan Deshpande, Shahbaz Ahamad, Adam Zampa
Released Players: Chris Morris, Aaron Finch, Moeen Ali, Isuru Udana, Dale Steyn, Shivam Dube, Umesh Yadav, Pawan Negi, Gurkeerat Mann, Parthiv Patel.
Kings XI Punjab
Retained Players: KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Nicholas Pooran, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Prabhsimran Singh, Mohammed Shami, Chris Jordan, Darshan Nalkande, Ravi Bishnoi, Murugan Ashwin, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Ishan Porel
Released Players: Glenn Maxwell, Karun Nair, Hardus Viljoen, Jagadeesha Suchith, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Sheldon Cottrell, Jimmy Neesham, Krishnappa Gowtham, Tajinder Singh.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Retained Players: Dinesh Karthik, Andre Russell, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Rinku Singh, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Eoin Morgan (c), Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Tom Banton, Varun Chakravarthy.
Released Players: M Siddharth, Nikhil Naik, Siddhesh Lad, Chris Green, Tom Banton.
Chennai Super Kings
Retained Players: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Dwayne Bravo, Josh Hazlewood, Sam Curran, KM Asif, Deepak Chahar, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, N Jagadeesan, Karn Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shardul Thakur, R Sai Kishore.
Released Players: Piyush Chawla, Harbhajan Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Murali Vijay, Monu Singh, Shane Watson
Rajasthan Royals
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Retained Players: Sanju Samson, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Riyan Parag, Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror, Kartik Tyagi, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, David Miller, Manan Vohra, Robin Uthappa
Released Players: Steve Smith, Ankit Rajpoot, Oshane Thomas, Akash Singh, Varun Aaron, Tom Curran, Anirudha Joshi, Shashank Singh
