It has just been 2 months since the IPL 2020 final on 10th November where Mumbai Indians clinched their 5th IPL title, and here we are already talking about the 14th edition of IPL.
The IPL 2021 will be as per normal schedule, i.e. it will start in March-April like all the previous years. Before the commencement of the tournament, they will be having a mini-auction for the 8 franchises.
All the 8 franchises have already submitted their final team with the retained and released players list before the deadline on 21st January. So, first, let’s take a detailed look into team list:
Chennai Super Kings
Retained Players:
- MS Dhoni
- Suresh Raina
- Ambati Rayudu
- KM Asif
- Deepak Chahar
- Dwayne Bravo
- Faf du Plessis
- Imran Tahir
- N Jagadeesan
- Karn Sharma
- Lungi Ngidi
- Mitchell Santner
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Ruturaj Gaikwad
- Shardul Thakur
- Sam Curran
- Josh Hazlewood
- R Sai Kishore
Released Players:
- Kedar Jadhav
- Murali Vijay
- Harbhajan Singh
- Piyush Chawla
- Monu Singh
- Shane Watson
Delhi Capitals
Retained Players:
- Shreyas Iyer
- Ajinkya Rahane
- Amit Mishra
- Avesh Khan
- Axar Patel
- Harshal Patel
- Ishant Sharma
- Kagiso Rabada
- Prithvi Shaw
- R Ashwin
- Rishabh Pant
- Shikhar Dhawan
- Shimron Hetmyer
- Marcus Stoinis
- Lalit Yadav
- Anrich Nortje
- Daniel Sams
- Pravin Dubey
- Chris Woakes
Released Players:
- Alex Carey
- Keemo Paul
- Tushar Deshpande
- Sandeep Lamichhane
- Mohit Sharma
- Jason Roy
Kings XI Punjab
Retained Players:
- KL Rahul
- Arshdeep Singh
- Chris Gayle
- Darshan Nalkande
- Harpreet Brar
- Mandeep Singh
- Mayank Agarwal
- Mohd. Shami
- M Ashwin
- Nicholas Pooran
- Sarfaraz Khan
- Deepak Hooda
- Ishan Porel
- Ravi Bishnoi
- Chris Jordan
- Prabhsimran Singh
Released Players:
- Glenn Maxwell
- Sheldon Cottrell
- Mujeeb Zadran
- Hardus Viljoen
- James Neesham
- Krishnappa Gowtham
- Karun Nair
- Jagadeesha Suchith
- Tejinder Singh Dhillon
Kolkata Knight Riders
Retained Players:
- Eoin Morgan
- Andre Russell
- Dinesh Karthik
- Kamlesh Nagarkoti
- Kuldeep Yadav
- Lockie Ferguson
- Nitish Rana
- Prasidh Krishna
- Rinku Singh
- Sandeep Warrier
- Shivam Mavi
- Shubman Gill
- Sunil Narine
- Pat Cummins
- Rahul Tripathi
- Varun Chakravarthy
- Tim Seifert
Released Players:
- Chris Green
- Harry Gurney
- M Siddharth
- Nikhil Naik
- Siddhesh Lad
- Tom Banton
Mumbai Indians
Retained Players:
- Rohit Sharma
- Aditya Tare
- Anmolpreet Singh
- Anukul Roy
- Dhawal Kulkarni
- Hardik Pandya
- Ishan Kishan
- Jasprit Bumrah
- Jayant Yadav
- Kieron Pollard
- Krunal Pandya
- Quinton de Kock
- Rahul Chahar
- Suryakumar Yadav
- Trent Boult
- Chris Lynn
- Saurabh Tiwary
- Mohsin Khan
Released Players:
- Prince Balwant Rai
- Digvijay Deshmukh
- Lasith Malinga
- Nathan Coulter-Nile
- James Pattinson
- Sherfane Rutherford
- Mitchell McCleneghan
Rajasthan Royals
Retained Players:
- Sanju Samson
- Ben Stokes
- Jofra Archer
- Jos Buttler
- Mahipal Lomror
- Manan Vohra
- Mayank Markande
- Rahul Tewatia
- Riyan Parag
- Shreyas Gopal
- Robin Uthappa
- Jaydev Unadkat
- Yashasvi Jaiswal
- Anuj Rawat
- Kartik Tyagi
- David Miller
- Andrew Tye
Released Players:
- Steve Smith
- Akash Singh
- Anirudha Joshi
- Ankit Rajpoot
- Oshane Thomas
- Shashank Singh
- Tom Curran
- Varun Aaron
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Retained Players:
- Virat Kohli
- AB de Villiers
- Devdutt Padikkal
- Md. Siraj
- Navdeep Saini
- Washington Sundar
- Yuzvendra Chahal
- Joshua Phillipe
- Pavan Deshpande
- Shahbaz Ahmed
- Adam Zampa
- Kane Richardson
Released Players:
- Chris Morris
- Shivam Dube
- Aaron Finch
- Umesh Yadav
- Dale Steyn
- Moeen Ali
- Parthiv Patel
- Pawan Negi
- Isuru Udana
- Gurkeerat Mann
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Retained Players:
- David Warner
- 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
- Virat Singh
- Priyam Garg
- Mitchell Marsh
- Jason Holder
- Abdul Samad
Released Players:
- Billy Stanlake
- Sandeep Bavanaka
- Fabian Allen
- Sanjay Yadav
- Prithviraj Yarra
IPL 2021 Auctions
The mini auction ahead of IPL 2021 was set to be held during the 2nd week of February but now it has been postponed by a week.
“IPL auctions will now be held in the 3rd week of February. The final date, venue will be confirmed in the next few days”, confirmed senior BCCI official.
The 8 IPL franchises will have INR 196.6 crores to spend at the IPL 14 mini-auction. All the IPL franchises retained a total of 139 players at a cost of INR 483.39 crores. The IPL franchises released 57 players in total from the existing squads and will now have INR 196.6 crores to spend at the IPL 2021 auctions.
Franchise | No of Players | No of Overseas Players | Total money spent (INR crores) | Salary cap available (INR crores) | Available Slots | Overseas Slots |
CSK | 18 | 7 | 62.10 | 22.90 | 7 | 1 |
DC | 19 | 6 | 72.0982 | 12.9018 | 6 | 2 |
KXIP | 16 | 3 | 31.80 | 53.20 | 9 | 5 |
KKR | 17 | 6 | 74.25 | 10.75 | 8 | 2 |
MI | 18 | 4 | 69.65 | 15.35 | 7 | 4 |
RR | 17 | 5 | 50.15 | 34.85 | 8 | 3 |
RCB | 12 | 4 | 49.10 | 35.90 | 13 | 4 |
SRH | 22 | 7 | 74.25 | 10.75 | 3 | 1 |
Total | 139 | 42 | 483.39 | 196.60 | 61 | 22 |