Here are all the players that were retained and released by each franchise.
The franchises had until today to finalize their lists of players they wanted to retain and the players from their squads who they wanted to go back into the auction pool. There were many surprises like Kings XI Punjab releasing Glenn Maxwell, Mumbai Indians parting ways with Lasith Malinga, Rajasthan Royals releasing Steve Smith and naming Sanju Samson as their captain, and RCB releasing the most number of players-10.
For those who missed the IPL 2021 pre-auction player retention, we at COC bring to you the franchise wise list of players released and retained.
Check them out here:
1. MUMBAI INDIANS (MI)
Players released: Lasith Malinga, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Pattinson, Mitchell McClenaghan, Sherfane Rutherford, Digvijay Deshmukh, and Prince Balwant Rai
Players retained: 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
2. CHENNAI SUPER KINGS (CSK)
Players released: Harbhajan Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Murali Vijay, Piyush Chawla, Shane Watson (retired), and Monu Singh
Players retained: MS Dhoni (C), Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, N Jagadeesan, Faf du Plessis, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Mitchell Santner, Josh Hazlewood, Karn Sharma, Shardul Thakur, KM Asif, R Sai Kishore, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar and Lungi Ngidi.
3. KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS (KKR)
Players released: Chris Green, Siddhesh Lad, Nikhil Naik, Harry Gurney, Manimaran Siddharth, and Tom Banton.
Players retained: Eoin Morgan (C), Dinesh Karthik, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahul Tripathi, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Varun Chakravarthy, Lockie Ferguson, Kuldeep Yadav, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Prasidh Krishna, and Sandeep Warrier
4. RAJASTHAN ROYALS (RR)
Players released: Steve Smith, Oshane Thomas, Tom Curran, Varun Aaron, Ankit Rajpoot, Anirudh, Akash Singh, Shashank Singh
Players retained: Sanju Samson (C), Manan Vohra, David Miller, Robin Uthappa, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror, Riyan Parag, Jofra Archer, Jaydev Unadkat, Kartik Tyagi, Shreyas Gopal, Mayank Markande, Andrew Tye
5. SUNRISERS HYDERABAD (SRH)
Players released: Billy Stanlake, Fabian Allen, Sanjay Yadav, Sandeep Bavanaka, Prithvi Raj Yarra
Players retained: David Warner, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh, Wriddhiman Saha, Jonny Bairstow, Shreevats Goswami, Vijay Shankar, Mohammad Nabi, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rashid Khan, T Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Siddarth Kaul, Basil Thampi, and Shahbaz Nadeem
6. KINGS XI PUNJAB (KXIP)
Players released: Glenn Maxwell, Karun Nair, Hardus Viljoen, Jagadeesha Suchith, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Sheldon Cottrell, Jimmy Neesham, Krishnappa Gowtham, Tajinder Singh
Players retained: KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Nicholas Pooran, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Prabhsimran Singh, Mohammad Shami, Chris Jordan, Darshan Nalkande, Ravi Bishnoi, Murugan Ashwin, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Ishan Porel
7. DELHI CAPITALS (DC)
Players released: Mohit Sharma, Tushar Deshpande, Keemo Paul, Sandeep Lamichhane, Alex Carey, Jason Roy
Players retained: Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Akshar Patel, Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Lalit Yadav, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, Pravin Dubey, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Woakes, Daniel Sams
8. ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE (RCB)
Players released: Chris Morris, Aaron Finch, Moeen Ali, Isuru Udana, Dale Steyn (Unavailable), Shivam Dube, Umesh Yadav, Pawan Negi, Gurkeerat Mann, Parthiv Patel (Retired)
Players retained: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Yuzvendra Chahal, Devdutt Padikkal, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Adam Zampa, Shahbaz Ahmed, Josh Philippe, Kane Richardson, Pawan Deshpande