IPL Auction 2024 Retained & Released Players List, Remaining Purse for all IPL Teams

After days of anticipation, the official list of player retention and releases for IPL 2024 has been unveiled. The auction is scheduled for December 19 in Dubai. Notably, players such as Ben Stokes and Joe Root have already withdrawn, while the deal involving Hardik Pandya and Mumbai Indians as per the latest update is now postponed until December 12. Additionally, MS Dhoni's participation in the 17th season of the lucrative league has been confirmed. 

In addition to this, Josh Hazlewood as well as Wanindu Hasaranga have been released by Royal Challengers Bangalore. With the franchise leaving out so many playing, the auction now shapes up to be quite a fascinating event. Let us now look at the list if players retained as well as released by several franchises from various teams;

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Retained Players

Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Suyash Prabhudessai, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Mayank Dagar (trade), Akash Deep, Manoj Bhandage, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar, Dinesh Karthik, Will Jacks

Released Players

Josh Hazlewood, Kedar Jhadav, Finn Allen, David Willey, Wayne Parnell, Michael Bracewell, Sonu Yadav, Siddharth Kaul, Avinash Singh, Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel

Total Purse Left: Rs 40.75 crore

Mumbai Indians

Retained Players

Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Piyush Chawla, Dewald Brevis, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Cameron Green, Romario Shepherd (trade), Arjun Tendulkar, Vishnu Vinod, Nehal Wadhera, Shams Mulani, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Jason Behrendorff

Released Players

Chris Jordan, Duan Jansen, Hrithik Shokeen, Arshad Khan, Ramandeep Singh, Raghav Goyal, Tristan Stubbs, Jhye Richardson, Riley Meredith, Sandeep Warrier, Jofra Archer

Total Purse Left: Rs 15.25 crore

Lucknow Super Giants

Retained Players

KL Rahul (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Nicholas Pooran (wk), Devdutt Padikkal, Ayush Badoni, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Devdutt Padikkal (traded), Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Krunal Pandya, Yudhvir Singh, Prerak Mankad, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Mark Wood, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan

Release Players

Karun Nair, Jaydev Unadkat, Daniel Sams, Manan Vohra, Arpit Guleria, Karan Sharma, Suryansh Shedge, Swapnil Singh

Total Purse Left: TBD

Gujarat Titans

Retained Players

Hardik Pandya (C), Shubman Gill, David Miller, Wriddhiman Saha, Matthew Wade, Mohit Sharma, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, B Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Mohammed Shami, Noor Ahmad, R Sai Kishore, Rashid Khan, Josh Little

Release Players

Shivam Mavi, Yash Dayal, Alzarri Joseph, KS Bharat, Urvil Patel, Pradeep Sangwan, Odean Smith, Dasun Shanaka

Total Purse Left:  TBD

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Retained Players

Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, Rahul Tripathi, Washington Sundar, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Abdul Samad, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Agarwal, Anmolpreet Singh, Nitish Reddy, Shahbaz Ahmed (traded from RCB), Sanvir Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik, T Natarajan, Fazahaq Farooqi, Upendra Yadav

Released Players

Harry Brook, Kartik Tyagi, Adil Rashid, Akeal Hosein, Samarth Vyas, Vivrant Sharma

Total Purse Left: Rs 34 crore

Rajasthan Royals 

Retained Players

Sanju Samson (c and wk), Jos Buttler (wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Avesh Khan (traded)

Released Players

Joe Root (not taking part in IPL 2024), Jason Holder, Obed McCoy, Abdul Basith, Akash Vashisht, Kuldip Yadav, M Ashwin, KC Cariappa, KM Asif

Total Purse Left: Rs 14.5 crore

Kolkata Knight Riders

Retained Players

Shreyas Iyer, Varun Chakravarthy, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sunil Narine, Jason Roy, Suyash Sharma, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Anukul Roy

Released Players

Shardul Thakur, Shakib Al Hasan, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Litton Das, Tim Southee, Johnson Charles, David Wiese, Arya Desai, N Jagadeesan, Mandeep Singh, Kulwant Khejroliya

Total Purse Left: Rs 32.7 crore

Chennai Super Kings

Retained Players

MS Dhoni (c & wk), Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Nishant Sandhu, Ajay Mandal, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Deepak Chahar, Maheesh Theekshana, Mukesh Chowdhary, Prashant Solanki, Simarjeet Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Matheesha Pathirana

Released Players

Ben Stokes, Dwaine Pretorius, Ambati Rayudu, Kyle Jamieson, Sisanda Magala, Akash Singh, Bhagath Varma, Subhranshu Senapati

Total Purse Left: Rs 31.4 crore

Delhi Capitals

Retained Players

Rishabh Pant (c & wk), David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Abhishek Porel, Axar Patel, Lalit Yadav, Mitchell Marsh, Yash Dhull, Pravin Dubey, Vicky Ostwal, Anrich Nortje, Kuldeep Yadav, Lungi Ngidi, Khaleel Ahmed, Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar

Released Players

Rovman Powell, Rilee Rossouw, Manish Pandey, Sarfaraz Khan, Chetan Sakariya, Phil Salt, Mustafizur Rahman, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ripal Patel, Aman Khan, Priyam Garg

Total Purse Left: RS 28.95 crore

Punjab Kings

Retained Players

Shikhar Dhawan (c), Jonny Bairstow (wk), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Matthew Short, Harpreet Bhatia, Atharva Taide, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran, Sikander Raza, Liam Livingstone, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Shivam Singh, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Vidwath Kaverappa, Kagiso Rabada, Nathan Ellis

Released Players

Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Mohit Rathee, Baltej Dhanda, Raj Angad Bawa, Shahrukh Khan

Total Purse Left: Rs 29.1 crore