As the preparations for the IPL 2019 auction in December goes underway; the first step happened as the franchises of the Indian Premier League have released their lists of retained players and released players on November 15.

The headline of the hectic day was retention of Australian duo Steve Smith and David Warner by Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad. Both players had missed the 2018 edition owing to the one-year ban levied by Cricket Australia due to ball-tampering incident.

Amongst the bigwigs of Indian cricket scene Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh were the most talked about names.

Here's a complete list of players released and retained by the eight sides of IPL

CHENNAI SUPER KINGS

Retained:
MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, M Vijay, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Billings, Mitchell Santner, David Willey, Dwayne Bravo, Shane Watson, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Harbhajan Singh, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Karn Sharma, Dhruv Shorey, N Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi

Released:
Mark Wood, Kanishk Seth, Kshitiz Sharma

Salary cap available: Rs 8.40 crore
Available slots: 2 (Indian 2, Overseas 0)

KINGS XI PUNJAB

Retained:
Lokesh Rahul, Chris Gayle, Andrew Tye, Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Rajpoot, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Karun Nair, David Miller, and Ravichandran Ashwin

Released:
Aaron Finch, Axar Patel, Mohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Barinder Sran, Ben Dwarshuis, Manoj Tiwary, Akshdeep Nath, Pardeep Sahu, Mayank Dagar, and Manzoor Dar

Trade: Mandeep Singh from RCB for Marcus Stoinis

Salary cap available: Rs 36.20 crore
Available slots: 15 (Indian 11, Overseas 4)

KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS

Retained:
Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Chris Lynn, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shubman Gill, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Shivam Mavi, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Kamlesh Nagarkoti

Released:
Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson, Tom Curran, Cameron Delport, Ishank Jaggi, Vinay Kumar, Apoorv Wankhade, Javon Searles

Salary cap available: Rs 15.20 crore
Available slots: 12 (Indian 7, Overseas 5)

MUMBAI INDIANS

Retained:
Rohit Sharma (C), Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Mayank Markande, Rahul Chahar, Anukul Roy, Siddhesh Lad, Aditya Tare, Quinton de Kock, Evin Lewis, Kieron Pollard, Ben Cutting, Mitchell McClenaghan, Adam Milne, Jason Behrendorff.

Released:
Saurabh Tiwary, Pradeep Sangwan, Mohsin Khan, MD Nidheesh, Sharad Lumba, Tajinder Singh Dhillon, JP Duminy, Pat Cummins, Mustafizur Rahman, Akila Dananjaya.

Trade: Quinton de Kock from RCB

Salary cap available: Rs 11.15 crore
Available slots: 7 (Indian 6, Overseas 1)

RAJASTHAN ROYALS

Retained:
Ajinkya Rahane, Krishnappa Gowtham, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Gopal, Aryaman Birla, S. Midhun, Prashant Chopra, Stuart Binny, Rahul Tripathi, Ben Stokes, Steve Smith, Jos Buttler, Jofra Archer, Ish Sodhi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mahipal Lomror.

Released:
D'Arcy Short, Ben Laughlin, Heinrich Klaasen, Dane Paterson, Zahir Khan, Dushmantha Chameera, Jaydev Unadkat, Anureet Singh, Ankit Sharma, Jatin Saxena.

Salary cap available: Rs 20.95 crore
Available slots: 9 (Indian 6, Overseas 3)

ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE

Retained:
Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Parthiv Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Moeen Ali, Mohammed Siraj, Colin de Grandhomme, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya,

Released:
Brendon McCullum, Corey Anderson, Quinton de Kock, Mandeep Singh, Chris Woakes, Sarfraz Khan

Trade: Marcus Stoinis from KXIP for Mandeep Singh

Salary cap available: Rs 18.15 crore
Available slots: 10 (Indian 8, Overseas 2)

SUNRISERS HYDERABAD

Retained:
Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Hooda, Manish Pandey, T Natarajan, Ricky Bhui, Sandeep Sharma, Siddarth Kaul, Shreevats Goswami (wk), Khaleel Ahmed, Yusuf Pathan, Billy Stanlake, David Warner, Kane Williamson, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi, Shakib Al Hasan

Released:
Sachin Baby, Tanmay Agarwal, Wriddhiman Saha, Chris Jordan, Carlos Brathwaite, Alex Hales, Bipul Sharma, Mehdi Hasan

Trade: Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem from DD for Shikhar Dhawan

Salary cap available: Rs 9.70 crore
Available slots: 5 (Indian 3, Overseas 2)

DELHI DAREDEVILS

Retained:
Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Rahul Tewatia, Jayant Yadav, Manjot Kalra, Colin Munro, Chris Morris, Kagiso Rabada, Sandeep Lamichhane, Trent Boult

Released:
Gautam Gambhir, Jason Roy, Junior Dala, Liam Plunkett, Mohammed Shami, Sayan Ghosh, Daniel Christian, Glenn Maxwell, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Naman Ojha

Trade: Shikhar Dhawan from SRH for Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem

Salary cap available: Rs 25.50 crore
Available slots: 10 (Indian 7, Overseas 3)