Since the T20 World Cup is taking place in Australia, the entire cricketing world has been affected by an international T20 fever. The Three Lions won the T20 World Cup trophy for the second time in history, but the T20 craze is far from done. The much-anticipated list of retained and released players ahead of the IPL mini-auction was revealed, and the fanatics are excited.
The most important retentions on the list includes Virat Kohli (Royal Challengers Bangalore), Hardik Pandya (Gujarat Titans), Rashid Khan (Gujarat Titans), MS Dhoni (Chennai Super Kings), Rishabh Pant (Delhi Capitals), Shikhar Dhawan (Punjab Kings), Kl Rahul (Lucknow SuperGiants), Jos Buttler (Rajasthan Royals), Rohit Sharma (Mumbai Indians), Shreyas Iyer (Kolkata Knight Riders), Glenn Phillips (Sunrisers Hyderabad) among others.
A few of the cricketers have also been acquired by the IPL teams through trade prior to the declaration. Gujarat Titans traded Lockie Ferguson to Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Delhi Capitals traded Shardul Thakur to KKR, GT traded Rahmanullah Gurbaz to KKR, and Royal Challengers Bangalore moved Jason Behrendorff to the Mumbai Indians.
IPL 2023 Retained Players List ahead of mini-auction (Team-wise)
KKR Retained Players List:
Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh
RCB Retained Players List:
Faf du Plessis (c), Virat Kohli, Suyash Prabhudessai, Rajat Patidar, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat, Finn Allen, Glenn Maxwell, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shahbaz Ahmed, Harshal Patel, David Willey, Karn Sharma, Mahipal Lomror, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood, Siddarth Kaul, Akash Deep
CSK Retained Players List:
MS Dhoni (c), Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Subhranshu Senapati, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Tushar Deshpande, Mukesh Chowdhary, Matheesha Pathirana, Simarjeet Singh, Deepak Chahar, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana
PBKS Retained Players List:
Shikhar Dhawan (c), Shahrukh Khan, Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jitesh Sharma, Raj Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Baltej Singh, Nathan Ellis, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Brar
LSG Retained Players List:
KL Rahul (c), Ayush Badoni, Karan Sharma, Manan Vohra, Quinton de Kock, Marcus Stoinis, Krishnappa Gowtham, Deepak Hooda, Kyle Mayers, Krunal Pandya, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Mark Wood, Mayank Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi
GT Retained Players List:
Hardik Pandya (c), Shubman Gill, David Miller, Abhinav Manohar, Sai Sudharsan,
Wriddhiman Saha, Matthew Wade, Rashid Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Vijay Shankar, Mohammed Shami, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Pradeep Sangwan, Darshan Nalkande, Jayant Yadav, R Sai Kishore, Noor Ahmad
MI Retained Players List:
Rohit Sharma (c), Tim David, Ramandeep Singh, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, Jofra Archer, Jasprit Bumrah, Arjun Tendulkar, Arshad Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Hrithik Shokeen, Jason Behrendorff, Akash Madhwal
RR Retained Players List:
Sanju Samson (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Jos Buttler, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Prasidh Krishna, Trent Boult, Obed McCoy, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Sen, Kuldip Yadav, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, KC Cariappa
DC Retained Players List:
Rishabh Pant (c), David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, 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, Kuldeep Yadav, Praveen Dubey, Vicky Ostwal
SRH Retained Players List:
Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kartik Tyagi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik
IPL 2023 Released Players List ahead of mini-auction (Team-wise)
KKR Released Player List:
Pat Cummins, Sam Billings, Aman Khan, Shivam Mavi, Mohammad Nabi, Chamika
Karunaratne, Aaron Finch, Alex Hales, Abhijeet Tomar, Ajinkya Rahane, Ashok Sharma, Baba Indrajith, Pratham Singh, Ramesh Kumar, Rasikh Salam, Sheldon Jackson
Acquired via trades: Shardul Thakur, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Lockie Ferguson
RCB Released Player List:
Jason Behrendorff, Aneeshwar Gautam, Chama Milind, Luvnith Sisodia, Sherfane Rutherford
Acquired via trades: N/A
CSK Released Player List:
Dwayne Bravo, Robin Uthappa, Adam Milne, Hari Nishaanth, Chris Jordan, Bhagath Varma, KM Asif, Narayan Jagadeesan
Acquired via trades: N/A
PBKS Released Player List:
Mayank Agarwal, Odean Smith, Vaibhav Arora, Benny Howell, Ishan Porel, Ansh Patel, Prerak Mankad, Sandeep Sharma, Writtick Chatterjee
Acquired via trades: N/A
LSG Released Player List:
Andrew Tye, Ankit Rajpoot, Dushmantha Chameera, Evin Lewis, Jason Holder, Manish Pandey, Shahbaz Nadeem
Acquired via Trades: N/A
GT Released Player List:
Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Lockie Ferguson, Dominic Drakes, Gurkeerat Singh, Jason Roy, Varun Aaron
Acquired via trades: N/A
MI Released Player List:
Kieron Pollard (Retired), Anmolpreet Singh, Aryan Juyal, Basil Thampi, Daniel Sams, Fabian Allen, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Murugan Ashwin, Rahul Buddhi, Riley Meredith, Sanjay Yadav, Tymal Mills
Acquired via trades: Jason Behrendorff
RR Released Player List:
Anunay Singh, Corbin Bosch, Daryl Mitchell, James Neesham, Karun Nair, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rassie van der Dussen, Shubham Garhwal, Tejas Baroka
Acquired via trades: N/A
DC Released Player List:
Shardul Thakur, Tim Seifert, Ashwin Hebbar, Srikar Bharat, Mandeep Singh
Acquired via trades: Aman Khan
SRH Released Player List:
Kane Williamson, Nicholas Pooran, Jagadeesha Suchith, Priyam Garg, Ravikumar Samarth, Romario Shepherd, Saurabh Dubey, Sean Abbott, Shashank Singh, Shreyas Gopal, Sushant Mishra, Vishnu Vinod
Acquired via trades: N/A
Purse Remaining and Overseas Slots ahead of mini-auction (team-wise):
| Teams | Purse Remaining | Overseas Slots Remaining |
| KKR | INR 7.05 CR | 3 |
| RCB | INR 8.75 CR | 2 |
| CSK | INR 20.45 CR | 2 |
| PBKS | INR 32.2 CR | 3 |
| LSG | INR 23.35 CR | 4 |
| GT | INR 19.25 CR | 3 |
| MI | INR 20.55 CR | 3 |
| RR | INR 13.2 CR | 4 |
| DC | INR 19.45 CR | 2 |
| SRH | INR 42.25 CR | 4 |
