The IPL 2021 auction is scheduled to take place on Thursday (February 18) in Chennai. All the eight teams announced their final list of retained and released players last month and thus they will go into the auction with various requirements to fulfill. Here we’ll take a look at the purse available for each franchise, their list of players retained, and the number of slots they need to fill in the auction.
Mumbai Indians
Purse: INR 15.35 cr || Slots left: 7 || Overseas slots left: 4
Players Retained:
Top-order batsmen: Rohit Sharma (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Chris Lynn, Saurabh Tiwary, Anmolpreet Singh, Aditya Tare (wk)
Finishers: Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya
All-rounders: Krunal Pandya
Spinners: Rahul Chahar, Anukul Roy, Jayant Yadav
Fast bowlers: Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan
Kings XI Punjab
Purse: INR 53.20 cr || Slots left: 9 || Overseas slots left: 5
Players Retained:
Top-order batsmen: KL Rahul (c&wk), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Mandeep Singh, Prabsimran Singh
Finishers: Nicholas Pooran (wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda
All-rounders: –
Spinners: Murugan Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Harpreet Brar
Fast-bowlers: Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ishan Porel, Darshan Nalkande, Chris Jordan
Rajasthan Royals
Purse: INR 37.85 cr || Slots left: 9 || Overseas slots left: 3
Players Retained
Top-order batsmen: Sanju Samson (c&wk), Jos Buttler (wk), Ben Stokes, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Manan Vohra, Anuj Rawat
Finishers: Riyan Parag, David Miller
All-rounders: Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror
Spinners: Shreyas Gopal, Mayank Markande
Fast bowlers: Jofra Archer, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Kartik Tyagi
Chennai Super Kings
Purse: INR 19.90 cr || Slots left: 6 || Overseas slots left: 1
Players Retained:
Top-order batsmen: Faf du Plessis, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, N. Jagadeesan (wk), Robin Uthappa
Finishers: MS Dhoni (c&wk), Ravindra Jadeja
All-rounders: Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo
Spinners: Karn Sharma, R. Sai Kishore, Mitchell Santner, Imran Tahir
Fast bowlers: Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Lungi Ngidi, Josh Hazlewood, KM Asif
Kolkata Knight Riders
Purse: INR 10.75 cr || Slots left: 8 || Overseas slots left: 2
Players Retained:
Top-order batsmen: Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Tim Seifert (wk), Rahul Tripathi, Rinku Singh
Finishers: Dinesh Karthik (wk), Eoin Morgan (c), Andre Russell
All-rounders: Sunil Narine
Spinners: Varun CV, Kuldeep Yadav
Fast bowlers: Pat Cummins, Lockie Ferguson, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Sandeep Warrier, Prasidh Krishna
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Purse: INR 10.75 cr || Slots left: 3 || Overseas slots left: 1
Players Retained:
Top-order batsmen: David Warner (c), Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Manish Pandey, Sreevats Goswami (wk), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Priyam Garg
Finishers: Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Virat Singh
All-rounders: Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Mohammad Nabi
Spinners: Rashid Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem
Fast bowlers: Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T. Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Siddarth Kaul, Basil Thampi
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Purse: INR 35.40 cr || Slots left: 11 || Overseas slots left: 3
Players Retained:
Top-order batsmen: Virat Kohli (c), Devdutt Padikkal, Josh Philippe (wk)
Finishers: AB de Villiers (wk), Pavan Deshpande
All-rounders: Washington Sundar, Daniel Sams
Spinners: Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Shahbaz Ahmed
Fast bowlers: Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Kane Richardson, Harshal Patel
Delhi Capitals
Purse: INR 13.40 cr || Slots left: 8 || Overseas slots left: 3
Players Retained
Top-order batsmen: Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer (c)
Finishers: Rishabh Pant (wk), Shimron Hetmyer
All-rounders: Marcus Stoinis, Chris Woakes
Spinners: R Ashwin, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Lalit Yadav, Pravin Dubey
Fast bowlers: Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Avesh Khan
