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Indian Premier League (IPL) 2015 Teams: Complete List of Players Retained and Released by IPL Teams

As for the other 2011 World Cup heroes, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh have been retained by Kolkata Knight Riders, Kings XI Punjab and Mumbai Indians respectively.

Updated: February 16, 2015 2:28 PM IST

By Rashmi Mishra

Indian Premier League (IPL) 2015 Teams: Complete List of Players Retained and Released by IPL Teams

Retained and Released Players in IPL 2015

The new face of Indian Premier League 2015 gets ready with the big names like Yuvraj Singh, Kevin Pietersen, Dinesh Karthik, Zaheer Khan, David Hussey have been released by their respective IPL teams as the trading window for the next edition of the cricket league ended on Monday. A total of 123 cricketers that included 79 Indians and 44 Overseas players were retained by the IPL franchises for the eighth edition of Indian Premier League. Five Indian cricketers have been traded during the window for player trade this year. The window for the franchises to extend the player contracts on existing terms for Pepsi IPL season closed on December 15, 2014. Also Read: IPL 2015 Team Players Auction Live News Updates: 17-year-old Sarfaraz Khan sold to RCB for 50 lakhs in IPL 8 Player Auction!

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Among the surprise names that were not retained for the 2015 Pepsi Indian Premier League was of Yuvraj Singh. He was the most expensive player during the seventh edition of Indian Premier League auctions, was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore who splurged a whopping amount of Rs 14 crore. The other expensive players to be released apart from Yuvraj, were Delhi Daredevils’ captain Kevin Pietersen and their costliest player Dinesh Karthik, who grabbed eyeballs after being picked for a whopping Rs 12.5 crore. Delhi have released as many as 13 players from the current side. Also Read: Yuvraj Singh sold to Delhi Daredevils at whopping price of Rs 16 crore at IPL 2015 Player Auction

Mumbai Indians have also made notable changes by not going ahead with retaining once spearhead Zaheer Khan. As for the other 2011 World Cup heroes, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh have been retained by Kolkata Knight Riders, Kings XI Punjab and Mumbai Indians respectively. Also Read: IPL 2015 Auction Latest News Updates: List of all Players available for IPL 8 Auction

Ranjib Biswal, Chairman IPL, commented: ‘Teams have the right, at their sole election, to extend player contracts for another season. This allows for teams to make any course corrections to their squads as a way to strengthen their team ahead of the next season. It is a way to balance the need for continuity whilst allowing for churn which is very important from the league’s perspective. The released players will have the option to put their names up for the player auction for the 2015 season’.

Teams have a total salary purse of Rs 63 Crores for the 2015 season (5% increase over the 2014 season purse). The salaries of the players retained will be deducted from this amount. Here are the details of the retained and released players for 2015 season:

Chennai Super Kings (Retained Players): MS Dhoni, Ashish Nehra, Baba Aparajith, Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Bravo, Dwayne Smith, Faf du Plessis, Ishwar Chandra Pandey, Matt Henry, Mithun Manhas, Mohit Sharma, Pawan Negi, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Samuel Badree, Suresh Raina, Ronit More.

Chennai Super Kings (Released Players): Ben Hilfenhaus, John Hastings, Vijay Shankar, David Hussey.

Delhi Daredevils (Retained Players): Jean-Paul Duminy, Kedar Jadhav, Manoj Tiwary, Mohammad Shami, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Quinton De Kock, Saurabh Tiwary, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mayank Agarwal, Imran Tahir, Jayant Yadav.

Delhi Daredevils (Released Players): Dinesh Karthik, HS Sharath, James Neesham, Jaydev Unadkat, Kevin Pietersen, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Milind Kumar, Murali Vijay, Rahul Sharma, Rahul Shukla, Ross Taylor, Siddarth Kaul, Wayne Parnell.

Kings XI Punjab (Retained Players): Axar Patel, Anureet Singh, Beuran Hendricks, David Miller, George Bailey, Glenn Maxwell, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Karanveer Singh, Manan Vora, Mandeep Singh, Mitchell Johnson, Parvinder Awana, Rishi Dhawan, Sandeep Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Shaun Marsh, Shivam Sharma, Thisara Perera, Virender Sehwag, Wriddhiman Saha.

Kings XI Punjab (Released Players): Cheteshwar Pujara, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Murali Kartik.

Kolkata Knight Riders (Retained Players): Gautam Gambhir, Andre Russell, Chris Lynn, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Morne Morkel, Patrick Cummins, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Ryan ten Doeschate, Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Veer Pratap Singh, Yusuf Pathan.

Kolkata Knight Riders (Released Players): Debabrata Das, Sayan Sekhar Mandal, Jacques Kallis.

Mumbai Indians (Retained Players): Rohit Sharma, Aditya Tare, Ambati Rayudu, Corey Anderson, Harbhajan Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Josh Hazlewood, Keiron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Marchant de Lange, Pawan Suyal, Shreyas Gopal, Lendl Simmons, Unmukt Chand, R Vinay Kumar, Parthiv Patel.

Mumbai Indians (Released Players): Michael Hussey, Praveen Kumar, Ben Dunk, Pragyan Ojha, Jalaj Saxena, Krismar Santokie, Sushant Marathe, Apoorv Wankhade, Zaheer Khan, C.M. Gautam.

Rajasthan Royals (Retained Players): Shane Watson, Abhishek Nayar, Ajinkya Rahane, Ankit Nagendra Sharma, Ben Cutting, Deepak Hooda, Dhawal Kulkarni, Dishant Yagnik, James Faulkner, Kane Richardson, Karun Nair, Pravin Tambe, Rahul Tewatia, Rajat Bhatia, Sanju Samson, Steven Smith, Stuart Binny, Tim Southee, Vikramjeet Malik.

Rajasthan Royals (Released Players): Amit Mishra, Ankush Bains, Brad Hodge.

Royal Challengers Bangalore (Retained Players): Virat Kohli, AB deVillers, Chris Gayle, Mitchell Starc, Nic Maddinson, Varun Aaron, Yuzvendra Singh Chahal, Rilee Rossouw, Vijay Zol, Yogesh Takawale, Abu Nechim Ahmed, Harshal Patel, Ashoke Dinda, Sandeep Warrier, Manvinder Bisla, Iqbal Abdullah.

Royal Challengers Bangalore (Released Players): Albie Morkel, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ravi Rampaul, Sachin Rana, Shadab Jakati, Tanmay Mishra, Yuvraj Singh.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (Retained Players): Shikhar Dhawan, Ashish Reddy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Chama Milind, Dale Steyn, David Warner, Ishant Sharma, Karn Sharma, KL Rahul, Moises Henriques, Naman Ojha, Parveez Rasool, Ricky Bhui.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (Released Players): Aaron Finch, Amit Mishra, Amit Paunikar, Brendan Taylor, Darren Sammy, Irfan Pathan, Jason Holder, Manprit Juneja, Prasanth Parameswaran, Srikkanth Anirudha, Venugopal Rao.

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