Ahead of the IPL 2023 auction, each team announced their list of released and retained players on November 15, 2022 – here’s the complete list for each of the ten sides:
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IPL 2023 auction: Full list of released and retained players for each team
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Chennai Super Kings [CSK]
Released: Dwayne Bravo, Robin Uthappa, Adam Milne, C Hari Nishaanth, Chris Jordan, Bhagath Varma, KM Asif, N Jagadeesan
Retained: MS Dhoni (C), Ravindra Jadeja, Ambati Rayudu, Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, S Senapati, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Tushar Deshpande, Mukesh Chowdhary, Matheesha Pathirana, Simarjeet Singh, Deepak Chahar, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana
Delhi Capitals [DC]
Released: Shardul Thakur, Tim Seifert, Ashwin Hebbar, Srikar Bharat, Mandeep Singh
Retained: Rishabh Pant (c), David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Vicky Ostwal, Ripal Patel, Rovman Powell, Sarfaraz Khan, Yash Dhull, Mitchell Marsh, Lalit Yadav, Axar Patel, Anrich Nortje, Chetan Sakariya, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Khaleel Ahmed, Lungi Ngidi, Mustafizur Rahman, Aman Khan [traded], Kuldeep Yadav, Praveen Dubey
Gujarat Titans [GL]
Released: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Lockie Ferguson, Dominic Drakes, Gurkeerat Singh, Jason Roy, Varun Aaron
Retained: Hardik Pandya (C), Shubman Gill, David Miller, Rashid Khan, Matthew Wade, Abhinav Manohar, Sai Sudharsan, Wriddhiman Saha, Rahul Tewatia, Vijay Shankar, Mohammed Shami, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Pradeep Sangwan, Darshan Nalkande, Jayant Yadav, R Sai Kishore, Noor Ahmad
Kolkata Knight Riders [KKR]
Released: Pat Cummins, Sam Billings, Shivam Mavi, Chamika Karunaratne, Aaron Finch, Alex Hales, Abhijeet Tomar, Ajinkya Rahane, Ashok Sharma, Baba Indrajith, Pratham Singh, Ramesh Kumar, Rasikh Salam, Sheldon Jackson, Mohammad Nabi, Aman Khan
Retained: Shreyas Iyer (C), Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (traded), Venkatesh Iyer, Shardul Thakur (traded), Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, Lockie Ferguson (traded), Sunil Narine, Andre Russell
Lucknow Super Giants [LSG]
Released: Jason Holder, Evin Lewis, Andrew Tye, Ankit Rajpoot, Dushmantha Chameera, Manish Pandey, Shahbaz Nadeem
Retained: KL Rahul (C), Krunal Pandya, Quinton de Kock, Ayush Badoni, Mark Wood, Karan Sharma, Manan Vohra, Marcus Stoinis, K Gowtham, Deepak Hooda, Kyle Mayers, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Mayank Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi
Mumbai Indians [MI]
Released: Kieron Pollard, Tymal Mills, Anmolpreet Singh, Aryan Juyal, Basil Thampi, Daniel Sams, Fabian Allen, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Murugan Ashwin, Rahul Buddhi, Riley Meredith, Sanjay Yadav
Retained: Rohit Sharma (C), Ramandeep Singh, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, Arshad Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Hrithik Shokeen, Jason Behrendorff (traded), Akash Madhwal, Tim David, Arjun Tendulkar, Jofra Archer, Jasprit Bumrah
Punjab Kings [PBKS]
Released: Mayank Agarwal, Odean Smith, Vaibhav Arora, Benny Howell, Ishan Porel, Ansh Patel, Prerak Mankad, Sandeep Sharma, Writtick Chatterjee
Retained: Shikhar Dhawan (C), Kagiso Rabada, Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Shahrukh Khan, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jitesh Sharma, Raj Angad Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Baltej Singh, Nathan Ellis, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Brar
Rajasthan Royals [RR]
Released: Anunay Singh, Corbin Bosch, Daryl Mitchell, James Neesham, Karun Nair, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rassie van der Dussen, Shubham Garhwal, Tejas Baroka
Retained: Sanju Samson (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Jos Buttler, KC Cariappa, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Prasidh Krishna, Trent Boult, Obed McCoy, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Sen, Kuldip Yadav, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal
Royal Challengers Bangalore [RCB]
Released: Jason Behrendorff, Aneeshwar Gautam, Chama Milind, Luvnith Sisodia, Sherfane Rutherford
Retained: Faf du Plessis (C), Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Suyash Prabhudessai, Rajat Patidar, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat, Finn Allen, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shahbaz Ahmed, Harshal Patel, David Willey, Karn Sharma, Mahipal Lomror, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood, Siddarth Kaul, Akash Deep
Sunrisers Hyderabad [SRH]
Released: Kane Williamson, Nicholas Pooran, J Suchith, Priyam Garg, R Samarth, Romario Shepherd, Saurabh Dubey, Sean Abbott, Shashank Singh, Shreyas Gopal, Sushant Mishra, Vishnu Vinod
Retained: Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kartik Tyagi, T Natarajan