IPL 2023 retention | Pollard announces retirement; Williamson (SRH), Bravo (CSK), Agarwal (PBKS) among released players

All the teams have submitted their lists of retained and released players. Here are the retentions, releases announced by all 10 franchises on the deadline day:

Delhi Capitals retentions, releases:

Retained players: Rishabh Pant (C), David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Ripal Patel, Rovman Powell, Sarfaraz Khan, Yash Dhull, Mitchell Marsh, Lalit Yadav, Axar Patel, Anrich Nortje, Chetan Sakariya, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Khaleel Ahmed, Lungi Ngidi, Mustafizur Rahman, Kuldeep Yadav, Praveen Dubey, Vicky Ostwal

Released players: Shardul Thakur, Tim Seifert, Ashwin Hebbar, Srikar Bharat, Mandeep Singh

Players acquired via trades: Aman Khan

Purse remaining: ₹19.45 crore

Overseas slots remaining: 2

Source: Sportstar, ESPN Cricinfo

Rajasthan Royals retentions, releases:

Retained players: Sanju Samson (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Jos Buttler, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Prasidh Krishna, Trent Boult, Obed McCoy, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Sen, Kuldip Yadav, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, KC Cariappa

Released players: Anunay Singh, Corbin Bosch, Daryl Mitchell, James Neesham, Karun Nair, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rassie van der Dussen, Shubham Garhwal, Tejas Baroka

Players acquired via trades: None

Purse remaining: ₹13.2 crore

Overseas slots remaining: 4

Source: Sportstar, ESPN Cricinfo

Royal Challengers Bangalore retentions, releases:

Retained players: Faf du Plessis (capt), Virat Kohli, Suyash Prabhudessai, Rajat Patidar, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat, Finn Allen, Glenn Maxwell, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shahbaz Ahmed, Harshal Patel, David Willey, Karn Sharma, Mahipal Lomror, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood, Siddarth Kaul, Akash Deep

Players released: Jason Behrendorff, Aneeshwar Gautam, Chama Milind, Luvnith Sisodia, Sherfane Rutherford

Purse remaining: ₹8.75 crore

Players acquired via trades: None

Overseas slots remaining: 2

Source: Sportstar, ESPN Cricinfo

Gujarat Titans retentions, releases:

Retained players: Shubman Gill, David Miller, Wriddhiman Saha, Matthew Wade, Abhinav Manohar, Sai Sudarshan, Hardik Pandya (C), Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Vijay Shankar, R Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav, Mohammad Shami, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Noor Ahmad, Darshan Nalkande, Pradeep Sangwan

Players released: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Lockie Ferguson, Dominic Drakes, Gurkeerat Singh, Jason Roy, Varun Aaron

Players acquired via trades: None

Purse remaining: ₹19.25 crore

Overseas slots remaining: 3

Source: Sportstar, ESPN Cricinfo

Mumbai Indians retentions, releases:

Retained players: Rohit Sharma (C), Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Dewald Brevis, Tilak Varma, Tristan Stubbs, Ramandeep Singh, Tim David, Jasprit Bumrah, Jofra Archer, Hrithik Shokeen, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, Arjun Tendulkar, Arshad Khan, Akash Madhwal

Released Players: Kieron Pollard, Anmolpreet Singh, Aryan Juyal, Basil Thampi, Daniel Sams, Fabian Allen, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Murugan Ashwin, Rahul Buddhi, Riley Meredith, Sanjay Yadav, Tymal Mills

Players acquired via trades: Jason Behrendorff

Purse remaining: ₹20.55 crore

Overseas slots remaining: 3

Source: Sportstar, ESPN Cricinfo

Chennai Super Kings retentions, releases:

Retained players: MS Dhoni, Ambati Rayudu, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devon Conway, S Senapati, Ravindra Jadeja, Moeen Ali, Mitchell Santner, Dwaine Pretorius, Shivam Dube, R Hangargekar, Deepak Chahar, Mukesh Choudhary, Maheesh Theekshana, Tushar Deshpande, Simarjeet Singh, Maheesh Pathirana, Prashant Solanki

Players released: Dwayne Bravo, Robin Uthappa, Adam Milne, Hari Nishaanth, Chris Jordan, Bhagath Varma, KM Asif, Narayan Jagadeesan

Players acquired via trades: None

Purse remaining: ₹20.45 crore

Overseas slots remaining: 2

Source: Sportstar, ESPN Cricinfo

Kolkata Knight Riders retentions, releases:

Players retained: Shreyas Iyer (C), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana, Anukul Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, C.V. Varun, Harshit Rana

Players released: Pat Cummins, Sam Billings, Aman Khan, Shivam Mavi, Mohammad Nabi, Chamika Karunaratne, Aaron Finch, Alex Hales, Abhijeet Tomar, Ajinkya Rahane, Ashok Sharma, Baba Indrajith, Pratham Singh, Ramesh Kumar, Rasikh Salam, Sheldon Jackson

Players acquired via trades: Shardul Thakur, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Lockie Ferguson

Purse Remaining: ₹7.05 crore

Source: Sportstar, ESPN Cricinfo

Lucknow Super Giants retentions, releases:

Retained players: KL Rahul (C), Ayush Badoni, Karan Sharma, Manan Vohra, Quinton de Kock, Marcus Stoinis, Krishnappa Gowtham, Deepak Hooda, Kyle Mayers, Krunal Pandya, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Mark Wood, Mayank Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi

Players released: Andrew Tye, Ankit Rajpoot, Dushmantha Chameera, Evin Lewis, Jason Holder, Manish Pandey, Shahbaz Nadeem

Players acquired via trades: None

Purse remaining:INR 23.35 crore

Overseas slots remaining: 4

Source: Sportstar, ESPN Cricinfo

Sunrisers Hyderabad retentions, releases:

Retained players: Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Marco Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, T Natarajan, Kartik Tyagi, Fazalhaq Farooqi

Released players: Kane Williamson, Nicholas Pooran, Jagadeesha Suchith, Priyam Garg, Ravikumar Samarth, Romario Shepherd, Saurabh Dubey, Sean Abbott, Shashank Singh, Shreyas Gopal, Sushant Mishra, Vishnu Vinod

Players acquired via trades: None

Purse remaining: ₹42.25 crore

Overseas slots remaining: 4

Source: Sportstar, ESPN Cricinfo

Punjab Kings retentions, releases:

Players retained: Shikhar Dhawan (C), Shahrukh Khan, Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jitesh Sharma, Raj Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Baltej Singh, Nathan Ellis, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Brar

Players released: Mayank Agarwal, Odean Smith, Vaibhav Arora, Benny Howell, Ishan Porel, Ansh Patel, Prerak Mankad, Sandeep Sharma, Writtick Chatterjee

Players acquired via trades: None

Purse remaining: ₹32.2 crore

Overseas slots remaining: 3

Source: Sportstar, ESPN Cricinfo

Veteran all-rounder Dwayne Bravo released by CSK

Chennai Super Kings has released its veteran all-rounder Dwayne Bravo ahead of IPL 2023 after 11-years of association, reported ESPN Cricinfo.

The purple cap winner of 2013 and 2015 seasons, Bravo’s 32 wickets for CSK in the 2013 season also remains a record for most scalps in one season.

After Cummins and Billings, Hales too opts put of IPL 2023

Alex Hales has joined Pat Cummins and Sam Billings in opting out of the next season of the Indian Premier League, the franchise confirmed in a tweet.

Hales had a terrific outing with the bat in the recently concluded T20 World Cup, scoring 212 runs, which included a 47-ball 86 against India in the semifinal.

Punjab Kings retains Shahrukh, releases Mayank Agarwal

With Shikhar Dhawan named captain long before the IPL 2023 retention deadline, Punjab Kings have decided to let go of their former skipper Mayank Agarwal, who capttained the side in 2022, reported ESPN Cricinfo.

Alongside Agarwal, Punjab has also released West Indies all-rounder Odean Smith, Prerak Mankad, Writtick Chatterjee and Ishan Porel. The franchise has reportedly retained Jonny Bairstow and Shahrukh Khan. Few more released players from the franchise include Vaibhav Arora, Benny Howell and Sandeep Sharma, according to ESPN Cricinfo.

Williamson, Pooran released by SRH

Sunrisers Hyderabad has released Kane Williamson and West Indies wicketkeeper-batsman Nicholas Pooran, reported ESPN Cricinfo.

Kane Williamson, captain of the Sunrisers Hyderabad, with teammates during an IPL match. File

Williamson was the skipper of the franchise in 2022, when they finished at the eighth place of the points table. They were only ahead of CSK (ninth) and MI (10th) in the 10-teams tournament.

In 76 matches for SRH, Williamson scored 2,101 runs at an average of 36.32 and a strike rate of 126.03. 

Rajasthan Royals let go of Rassie Van der Dussen, Darryl Mitchell

South Africa batter Rassie van der Dussen and New Zealand batting allrounder Daryl Mitchell have been released by Rajasthan Royals, reported ESPN Cricinfo.

RR, however, have retained Devdutt Padikkal.

Maxwell, Du Plesis, Hasaranga retained; Sherfane Rutherford released, Jason Behrendorff traded

After trading Jason Behrendorff to Mumbai Indians, Royal Challngers Bangalore have now relased Sherfane Rutherford, but are expected to retain all other six overseas players including Glenn Maxwell, Josh Hazlewood, Faf du Plessis, Wanindu Hasaranga, Finn Allen and David Willey, reported ESPN Cricinfo.

CSK retains Ravindra Jadeja

 Influential all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has been retained by the Chennai Super Kings, reported Sportstar.

There were whispers that Jadeja will be released by the franchise as he was unhappy there, but a franchise source told Sportstar “There has been a lot of speculation in the media. But Jadeja has not spoken about anything to us. He will be playing for us in the coming season.”

Mavi, Nabi, Karunarathne rleased by KKR

The Kolkata Knight Riders have, according to the latest reports, have released Shivam Mavi, Mohammad Nabi and Chamika Karunaratne.

Gujatart Titans releases Jason Roy

England opener Jason Roy is the only player being released by the Gujarat Titans, apart from the transferred Lockie Ferguson and Rahmanullah Gurbaz, reported ESPN Cricinfo.

Roy was picked up for ₹2 crore but he had opted out of IPL 2022 later.

Rajasthan Royals retains Devdutt Padikkal

Devdutt Padikkal, who had a modest outing in IPL 2022, has been retained by Rajasthan Royals.

Bought in for ₹7.75 crore, Padikkal scorred 376 in 12 innings last season at an average of 22.11 and a strike rate of 122.87. He, however, had a good domestic season opening for Karnataka, where he also smashed an unbeaten 124 of just 62 balls against Maharashtra in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

Pollard retires after being released from MI, to take up the role of batting coach with the franchise

One of the most accomplished names in T20 cricket, Kieron Pollard, on Tuesday called time on his Indian Premier League playing career after 13 seasons with league giants Mumbai Indians.

The 35-year-old wanted to carry on playing for a few more years but decided to retire from IPL after discussion with the five-time champions.

Pollard, who has 3,412 IPL runs in 189 matches, had made his MI debut back in 2010. However, his strong association with the franchise remains as he will be the team’s new batting coach.

Read more: Kieron Pollard calls time on IPL career, to remain with Mumbai Indians as batting coach

Mandeep Singh, K.S. Bharat, Tim Seifert and Ashwin Hebbar released by DC: report

Delhi Capitals have released Mandeep Singh, K.S. Bharat, New Zealand’s Tim Seifert and Andhra batter Ashwin Hebbar, reported ESPN Cricinfo. They had also traded Shardul Thakur to KKR in return for Aman Khan.

Capitals had finished fifth in IPL 2022. Bharat, a wicketkeeper-batter, played only twice for the Capitals as skipper Rishabh Pant remained their number one wicketkeeeping choice. Seifert, too, played only two games while Mandeep played three. Hebbar, who was the second highest run-getter in recent Andhra Premier League, never got a game.

Pat Cummins, Sam Billings opt out of IPL 2023

Kolkata Knight Riders bowler Pat Cummins opted out of IPL 2023 in order to “take some rest” ahead of the Ashes and the 50-over World Cup scheduled next year.

England batsman Sam Billings also pulled out the next season, where he was expected to be a part of the Kolkata Knight Riders squad, saying that his focus is on the longer format with Kent, his county.