Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 auction is set to take place next month in Kochi. After a long gap of three years, the home and away format will be making its comeback. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had set the deadline of November 15 for franchises to submit their list of retained and released players. Also, the purse of every franchise has been increased by Rs 5 crore. SRH have released their skipper Kane Williamson who was retained for Rs 14 crore and Nicholas Pooran who was picked for a hefty price tag of 10.75 crore. In total, they retained just 12 players before the auction.
Released players - Kane Williamson, Nicholas Pooran, Priyam Garg, J Suchith, Shreyas Gopal, Vishnu Vinod, Saurabh Dubey, Shashank Singh, R Samarth, Sean Abbott, Romario Shepherd
Prominent Retained players - Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, T Natarajan, Kartik Tyagi, Fazalhaq Farooqi
Purse remaining: Rs 42.24 crore
SRH's run in IPL 2022
SRH were at their peak when they had the likes of David Warner and Rashid Khan among their ranks. They won the IPL 2016 after beating Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). However, after sacking Warner, they have not clicked for the last two seasons. After finishing at the bottom of the table in IPL 2021, they finished eighth in IPL 2022 with six wins from 14 games. Under the capable hands of Kiwi skipper , SRH have not lived upto the potential. They have some exciting individual talents, especially speedster Umran Malik who pulled off few spectacular spells but they haven’t been consistent as a team.
