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All existing eight franchises announced their list of retained players before the mega Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 auctions. There was much drama involved as franchises tried to keep the core contract whereas others opted to retain fewer players and go all out in the upcoming mega auctions. There were few surprising pay-cuts as well for senior players like MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli.
Mumbai Indians
Retained Players: Rohit Sharma (Rs 16 crore), Jasprit Bumrah (Rs 12 crore), Suryakumar Yadav (Rs 8 crore), Kieron Pollard (Rs 6 crore)
Released Players: Trent Boult, Jayant Yadav, Anmolpreet Singh, Chris Lynn, Saurabh Tiwari, Aditya Tare, Quinton de Kock, Piyush Chawla, Anukul Roy, Krunal Pandya, Jimmy Neesham, Hardik Pandya, Marco Jansen, Adam Milne, Dhawal Kulkarni, Nathan Coulter Nile, Mohsin Khan, Yudhveer Singh, Arjun Tendulkar, Rahul Chahar, Ishan Kishan
Remaining purse: Rs 48 crore
Delhi Capitals
Retained Players: Rishabh Pant (Rs 16 crore), Axar Patel (Rs 9 crore), Prithvi Shaw (Rs 7.5 crore), and Anrich Nortje (Rs 6.5 crore)
Released Players: Shreyas Iyer, Shikhar Dhawan, Steve Smith, Ajinkya Rahane, Shimron Hetmyer, Sam Billings, Ripal Patel, Vishnu Vinod, Marcus Stoinis, Tom Curran, Lalit Yadav, Avesh Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Amit Mishra, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Dubey, Ben Dwarshuis, Lukman Meriwala, Ravichandran Ashwin, Chris Woakes, Kulwant Khejroliya, M. Siddharth
Remaining purse: Rs 47.50 crore
Kolkata Knight Riders
Retained Players: Andre Russell (Rs 12 crore), Varun Chakravarthy (Rs 8 crore), Venkatesh Iyer (Rs 8 crore), Sunil Narine (Rs 6 crore)
Released players: Eoin Morgan, Karun Nair, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Gajendra Singh, Dinesh Karthik, Tim Seifert, Sheldon Jackson, Shakib Al Hasan, Shivam Mavi, Ben Cutting, Kuldeep Yadav, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Sandeep Warrier, Pawan Negi, Prasidh Krishna, Pat Cummins, Vaibhav Arora, Harbhajan Singh, Tim Southee, Lockie Ferguson
Remaining purse: Rs 48 crore
Punjab Kings
Retained Players: Mayank Agarwal (Rs 14 crore), Arshdeep Singh (Rs 4 crore)
Released Players: KL Rahul, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Aiden Markram, Dawid Malan, Shahrukh Khan, Swapnil Singh, Nicholas Pooran, Moises Henriques, Jalaj Saxena, Chris Gayle, Harpreet Brar, Chris Jordan, Utkarsh Singh, Deepak Hooda, Murugan Ashwin, Mohammad Shami, Fabian Allen, Adil Rashid, Ravi Bishnoi, Ishan Porel, Riley Meredith, Jhye Richardson, Nathan Ellis, Saurabh Kumar, Darshan Nalkande, Prabhsimran Singh
Remaining purse: Rs 72 crore
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Retained Players: Virat Kohli (Rs 15 crore), Glenn Maxwell (Rs 11 crore), Mohammad Siraj (Rs 7 crore)
Released Players: Devdutt Paddikal, Akshdeep Nath, Rajat Patidar, Suyash S Prabhudesai, Sachin Baby, K.S. Bharat, Finn Allen, Mohammad Azharuddin, Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Nadeem, Pawan Deshpande, Daniel Sams, George Garton, Daniel Christian, Harshal Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Scott Kuggeleijn, Tim David, Navdeep Saini, Wanindu Hasaranga, Kyle Jamieson, Kane Richardson, Dushmantha Chameera
Remaining purse: 57 crore
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Retained Players: Kane Williamson (Rs 14 crore), Abdul Samad (Rs 4 crore), Umran Malik (Rs 4 crore)
Released Players: Rashid Khan, David Warner, Jonny Bairstow, Shreevats Goswami, Jagadeesha Suchith, Wriddhiman Saha, Mohammad Nabi, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Kedar Jadhav, Vijay Shankar, Virat Singh, Priyam Singh, Sherfane Rutherford, Sandeep Sharma, Abhishek Sharma, Jason Holder, Basil Thampi, T Natarajan, Siddharth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shahbaz Nadeem, Manish Pandey, Jason Roy
Remaining purse: Rs 68 crore
Rajasthan Royals
Retained Players: Sanju Samson (Rs 14 crore), Jos Buttler (Rs 10 crore), Yashasvi Jaiswal (Rs 4 crore)
Released Players: Ben Stokes, Evin Lewis, David Miller, Liam Livingstone, Manan Vohra, Anuj Rawat, Chris Morris, Glenn Phillips, Rahul Tewatia, Shreyas Gopal, Mahipal Lomror, Riyan Parag, Jofra Archer, Shivam Dube, Jaydev Unadkat, KC Cariappa, Tabrez Shamsi, Oshane Thomas, Mustafizur Rahman, Andrew Tye, Akash Singh, Karthik Tyagi, Chetan Sakaria, Kuldip Yadav, Mayank Markande
Remaining purse: Rs 62 crore
Chennai Super Kings
Retained Players: Ravindra Jadeja (Rs 16 crore), MS Dhoni (Rs 12 crore), Moeen Ali (Rs 8 crore), Ruturaj Gaikwad (Rs 6 crore)
Released Players: Robin Uthappa, Narayan Jagadeesan, Suresh Raina, Krishanappa Gautam, Shardul Thakur, Dwayne Bravo, Jos Hazlewood, Sai Kishore, Jason Behrendorff, K Bhagath Verma, Hari Nishanth C, Faf du Plessis, Ambati Rayudu, Karn Sharma, Cheteshwar Pujara, Mitchell Santner, Lungi Ngidi, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Imran Tahir, H Harishankar Reddy
Remaining purse: Rs 48 crore
