IPL 2020 Auction: Eight franchisees to spend ₹ 207.65 crore in auction

Eight franchisees will go to the Indian Premier League player auction on December 19 with an aggregate of ₹ 207.65 crore to complete their respective squads for the Indian Premier League (IPL 2020).

Each franchisee is allocated a purse of ₹ 85 crore to spend a players’ salaries. After the exercise of the pre-auction player trading, retention and release of the player was completed yesterday (Friday), Kings XI Punjab are left with the fattiest purse of ₹ 42.70 crore in hand to bid for the players the auction in Kolkata. Mumbai Indians with ₹ 13.05 have the least.

Among the released players, Mumbai Indians’ Yuvraj Singh and Kolkata Knight Riders’ Robin Uthappa are among the big names in the released players list.

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Here is the complete list of the retained, released and traded players:

DELHI CAPITALS:

Retained Players: Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ajinkya Rahane, Kagiso Rabada, Keemo Paul, Sandeep Lamichhane

Released Players : Hanuma Vihari, Jalaj Saxena, Manjot Kalra, Ankush Bains, Nathu Singh, Bandaru Ayappa, Chris Morris, Colin Ingram, Colin Munro

Traded off Players:  Sherfane Rutherford to Mumbai Indians, Jagadeesha Suchith to Kings XI Punjab, Trent Boult to Mumbai Indians, Rahul Tewatia & Mayank Markande to Rajasthan Royals

Remaining Purse: ₹ 27.85 cr.

MUMBAI INDIANS: 

Retained players: Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Surya Kumar Yadav, Rahul Chahar, Anmolpreet Singh, Jayant Yadav, Aditya Tare, Anukul Roy, Dhawal Kulkarni (Traded in), Quinton de Kock, Kieron Pollard, Sherfane Rutherford (Traded in from Delhi Capitals), Lasith Malinga, Mitchell McClenaghan, Trent Boult (Traded in from Delhi Capitals)

Released Players: Evin Lewis, Adam Milne, Jason Behrendorff, Beuran Hendricks, Ben Cutting, Yuvraj Singh, Barinder Sran, Rasikh Salam, Pankaj Jaswal, Alzarri Joseph

Traded off Players: Mayank Markande traded to Delhi Capitals (who traded him off to Rajasthan Royals), Siddesh Lad (to Kolkata Knight Riders).

Remaining Purse: ₹ 13.05 crore.

SUNRISERS HYDERABAD:

Retained players: Kane Williamson, David Warner, Manish Pandey, Vijay Shankar, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi, Abhishek Sharma, Jonny Bairstow, Wriddhiman Saha, Shreevats Goswami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Siddarth Kaul, Shahbaz Nadeem, Billy Stanlake, Basil Thampi, T Natarajan

Released Players: Yusuf Pathan, Shakib al Hasan, Martin Guptill, Deepak Hooda, Ricky Bhui

No player traded.

Remaining Purse: ₹ 17 crore.

CHENNAI SUPER KINGS:

Retained Players: MS Dhoni (captain & WK), Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Murali Vijay, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Rituraj Gaikwad, Dwayne Bravo, Karn Sharma, Imran Tahir, Harbhajan Singh, Mitchell Santner, Shardul Thakur, K M Asif, David Willey, Deepak Chahar, N Jagadeesan (wk).

Released Players: Sam Billings, David Willey, Mohit Sharma, Dhruv Shorey and Chaitanya Bishnoi.

No player traded.

Remaining Purse: ₹ 14.60 crore.

KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS:

Retained Players: Dinesh Karthik, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Shubman Gill, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier, Harry Gurney, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Siddhesh Lad (traded in from Mumbai Indians)

Released Players: Chris Lynn, Carlos Brathwaite, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Nikhil Naik, KC Cariappa, Joe Denly, Srikant Munde, Yarra Prithviraj, Anrich Nortje

No player traded.

Remaining Purse: ₹ 35.65 crore.

RAJASTHAN ROYALS: 

Retained Players: Steve Smith, Sanju Samson, Jofra Archer, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Riyan Parag, Shashank Singh, Shreyas Gopal, Mahipal Lomror, Varun Aaron, Manan Vohra

Released Players: Ashton Turner, Oshane Thomas, Shubham Ranjane, Prashant Chopra, Ish Sodhi, Aryaman Birla, Jaydev Unadkat, Rahul Tripathi, Stuart Binny, Liam  Livingstone, Sudheshan Midhun.

Remaining Purse: ₹ 28.90 crore.

Players traded off: Ajinkya Rahane (traded to Delhi Capitals), K Gowtham (traded to Kings XI Punjab)

KINGS XI PUNJAB:

Retained Players: KL Rahul, Karun Nair, Mohammed Shami, Nicholas Pooran, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Chris Gayle, Mandeep Singh, Mayank Agarwal, Hardus Viljoen, Darshan Nalkande, Sarfaraz Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar and Murugan Ashwin.

Released Players: Agnivesh Ayachi, Andrew Tye, David Miller, Moises Henriques, Prabhsimran Singh, Sam Curran, Varun Chakaravarthy

No player traded.

Remaining Purse: ₹ 42.70 crore.

ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE: 

Retained Players: Virat Kohli, Moeen Ali, Yuzvendra Chahal, AB de Villiers, Parthiv Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Pawan Negi, Umesh Yadav, Gurkeerat Mann, Devdutt Padikkal, Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini,

Released Players: Akshdeep Nath, Colin de Grandhomme, Dale Steyn, Heinrich Klassen, Himmat Singh, Kulwant Khejroliya, Marcus Stoinis, Milind Kumar, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Prayas Ray Barman, Shimron Hetmyer, Tim Southee

No player traded.

Remaining Purse: ₹ 27.90 crore.

The auction is scheduled for  place in Kolkata on December 19 for the next season of IPL, slated from March end or April next year.

IPL Teams’ pre-auction update at a glance: