Indian Premier League 2020 auctions are all set to take place in December 2019. Before the auctions, all teams, their coaches and the managements have pulled up their sleeves in efforts to build a solid team for the next season of the IPL. All IPL teams decided to make some important changes by trading some players with other franchises. They also released some players hoping to get rid of some of the weaker links. And of course, teams revealed the players who they consider as their stronger links by retaining them. Let us see one by one all teams’ released, traded and retained players before the IPL 2020 auctions which will most likely take place on 19 December 2019.
1. Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) Released, Traded & Retained Players
Sunrisers Hyderabad released five players, traded zero players and retained 18 players.
The released players are Shakib al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Deepak Hooda, Ricky Bhui and Martin Guptill.
SRH retained almost all their star players including Kane Williamson, David Warner, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohd. Nabi, Rashid Khan, Jonny Bairstow, and others.
It will be interesting who they would buy in the auctions with Rs 17 crore remaining in their purse.
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2. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Released, Traded & Retained Players
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) released their 12 players. Most of them are overseas players and RCB had huge hopes from them in the last season, but for the most part, they could not deliver.
Dale Steyn was released due to his injury concerns. RCB released their all-rounders Colin de Grandhomme and Marcus Stoinis. Also, they released the pacers Tim Southee and Nathan Coulter-Nile. Thus now they badly need quality pacers.
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Now Virat Kohli’s RCB will look to buy some solid players in the IPL auctions in December 2019.
They have a good budget of Rs 27.90 crore remaining in their purse.
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3. Rajasthan Royals (RR) Released, Traded & Retained Players
Rajasthan Royals are all set to build a totally new team, as they released whopping 11 players from their squad.
Also, they traded a few players with other teams. Their biggest trade was Ajinkya Rahane, who was also their captain for the most part of the last season. Ajinkya Rahane will now play for Delhi Capitals. Dhawal Kulkarni was another player to be traded out from Rajasthan Royals to Mumbai Indians.
Mayank Markande underwent a weird kind of trade. He used to play for Mumbai Indians. But Delhi Capitals bought him from Mumbai Indians. And the funny thing is just a few days later Rajasthan Royals bought him from the Capitals. So now Mayank Markande will play for the Royals.
Let us see which new players will RR buy in the auctions with their remaining budget of Rs 28.90 crore.
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4. Mumbai Indians (MI) Released, Traded & Retained Players
So Mumbai Indians released ten players including big names such as Yuvraj Singh, Jason Behrendorff, Ben Cutting and Evin Lewis.
They also traded some players. They bought Trent Boult from Delhi Capitals and made their bowling line-up even stronger.
They also bought Dhawal Kulkarni from Rajasthan Royals and Sherfane Rutherford from Delhi capitals.
They let go of their smart leg-spinner Mayank Markande to Delhi Capitals, who later sold him to Rajasthan Royals. They also let go of Siddhesh Lad, who now will play for Kolkata Knight Riders.
Mumbai Indians have Rs 13.05 crore remaining with them for the auctions.
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5. Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Released, Traded & Retained Players
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) released a total of 11 players and thus aim to revamp the team. They released big names such as Chris Lynn, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, and Carlos Brathwaite.
KKR traded just one player. They bought the 27-year old right-hand batsman, Siddhesh Lad, from Mumbai Indians.
Though KKR released a lot of players, they retained their popular core players such as Dinesh Karthik, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Shubman Gill, Lockie Ferguson, and Nitish Rana.
KKR released a lot of players and so now they have a lot of money in their bag i.e. Rs 35.65 crore to shop in the 19 December 2019 IPL player auction.
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6. Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) Released, Traded & Retained Players
Kings XI Punjab released seven players from their squads before the IPL 2020 auctions. The released players include the star player David Miller and the rising star player Sam Curran.
KXIP did 3 trades. They sold their last season’s captain Ravichandran Ashwin to Delhi Capitals.
And they bought J Suchith from Delhi Capitals and Krishnappa Gowtham from Rajasthan Royals.
KXIP retained their star players such as KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Mohammad Shami, Mandeep Singh, and others.
KXIP will look to buy some really awesome players in the auction as they have a huge amount of Rs 42.70 crore in their pockets.
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7. Delhi Capitals (DC) Released, Traded & Retained Players
Delhi Capitals (DC) decided to release nine of their players, including names such as Colin Munro, Colin Ingram, Hanuma Vihari and Chris Morris.
DC did a lot of trades. They gave their three players to other teams. Jagadeesha Suchith went to KXIP.
Trent Boult and Sherfane Rutherford went to Mumbai Indians.
Also, they welcomed two new players as part of the trades. They bought Ravichandran Ashwin from KXIP and Ajinkya Rahane from Rajasthan Royals.
They had bought Mayank Markande from Mumbai Indians but later sold it again to Rajasthan Royals in just a few days in what was a funny trade of the IPL season.
Delhi capitals budget is Rs 27.85 crore for the IPL 2020 auctions.
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8. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Released, Traded & Retained Players
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) released their five players: Sam Billings, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Dhruv Shorey, David Willey, and Mohit Sharma.
CSK did not engage in any trades with other teams.
And when it comes to retention, CSK decided not to tinker much with their strong squad and retained 18 of their players.
Thus we will continue to see MS Dhoni, Faf du Plessis, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo and many other star players in the yellow colors.
CSK will have Rs 14.60 crore in their bag when they will go for the IPL auctions.
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Alright, so that was the complete information about the players’ current status of all the IPL teams. We saw all the released, traded and retained players of all teams before IPL 2020 auctions. What is your view on the current status of all teams? Do you think any team has done a mistake by releasing any of its useful players? Let us know in the comments sections below.
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