MUMBAI: The “original eight” Indian Premier League franchises submitted their player-retention list on Tuesday ahead of the upcoming IPL mega auction in January.
The franchises have been allowed to retain a maximum of four, while the two new franchises – Lucknow and Ahmedabad – can acquire three from the rest of the player pool before the January auction.
The biggest names that have been released by their respective teams and have gone into the auction pool, but are expected to be split between the two new franchises are that of Australian star and former SRH captain David Warner and now former Punjab Kings captain KL Rahul.
Each of the eight franchises used the Player Retention option with Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Delhi Capitals (DC), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Mumbai Indians (MI) opting to retain 4 players each. Rajasthan Royals (RR), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) have retained 3 players each while Punjab Kings (PK) have retained 2. PK thus have the highest salary purse available with Rs 72 cr while Delhi Capitals have least at Rs 47.50cr to be used at the mega auction.
Of the 27 retained players, 8 are overseas and 4 are uncapped Indians.
List of players retained by each team ahead of IPL 2022 auction:
CSK: Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali
KKR: Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Varun Chakravarthy, Venkatesh Iyer
SRH: Kane Williamson, Abdul Samad, Umran Malik
MI: Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Kieron Pollard, Suryakumar Yadav
RCB: Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj
DC: Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw, Axar Patel, Anrich Nortje
RR: Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal
PK: Mayank Agarwal, Arshdeep Singh
The two new franchises have time from December 1 to December 25 to sign two Indian and one overseas player.
Detailed breakup of players retained, total amount spent, retention deduction and purse available
Franchise Salary Retention / Deduction Salary Purse Available
Chennai Super Kings
Ravindra Jadeja 16
MS Dhoni 12 42 48
Moeen Ali 8
Ruturaj Gaikwad 6
Delhi Capitals
Rishabh Pant 16
Axar Patel 9 42.50 47.50
Prithvi Shaw 7.50
Anrich Nortje 6.50
Kolkata Knight Riders
Andre Russell 12
Varun Chakaravarthy 8 42 48
Venkatesh Iyer 8
Sunil Narine 6
Mumbai Indians
Rohit Sharma 16
Jasprit Bumrah 12 42 48
Suryakumar Yadav 8
Kieron Pollard 6
Punjab Kings
Mayank Agarwal 12 18 72
Arshdeep Singh 4
Rajasthan Royals
Sanju Samson 14
Jos Buttler 10 28 62
Yashasvi Jaiswal 4
Royal Challengers
Virat Kohli 15
Glenn Maxwell 11 33 57
Mohammed Siraj 7
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Kane Williamson 14
Abdul Samad 4 22 68
Umran Malik 4
(*Amounts in Crores)
