BCCI will target bigger viewership and revenue with a new time slot for IPL 2019 auction, according to a report.
IPL 2019 Auction: The Indian Premier League 2019 player auction is set to get bigger. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) seems to be targetting bigger viewership and revenue with a new time slot for IPL season 12 player auction.
While the auctions used to start from 10 am in the morning for the past editions, it is expected to start at 3 pm this year to maximise primetime viewership, according to a report in Mumbai Mirror.
The IPL 2019 auction will be held on December 18, said the report. The auction is expected to start at 3 PM and will end by 9:30 pm. The date has been strategically planned as December 18 is the day of the final day of the second Test between India and Australia at Perth. The auctions will take place in Jaipur this year.
IPL Auction 2019: Date, time, teams, retained squad, players to buy, salary cap and slots- All you need to know
With all eight franchises having already finalsed transfer business earlier this month, they will look to fill in the blanks to get the perfect team.
Full list of players retained, released and traded by teams ahead of IPL auction:
Mumbai Indians
Salary cap available: Rs 11.15 crore
Available slots: 7 (Indian 6, Overseas 1) Traded In: Quinton de Kock
Retained Players: Rohit Sharma (C), Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Mayank Markande, Rahul Chahar, Anukul Roy, Siddhesh Lad, Aditya Tare, Quinton de Kock, Kieron Pollard, Ben Cutting, Mitchell McClenaghan, Adam Milne, Jason Behrendorff.
Released Players: Saurabh Tiwary, Pradeep Sangwan, Mohsin Khan, MD Nidheesh, Sharad Lumba, Tajinder Singh Dhillon, JP Duminy, Pat Cummins, Mustafizur Rahman, Akila Dananjaya
Rajasthan Royals
Salary cap available: Rs 20.95 crore
Available slots: 9 (Indian 6, Overseas 3)
Retained Players: Ajinkya Rahane, Krishnappa Gowtham, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Gopal, Aryaman Birla, S Midhun, Prashant Chopra, Stuart Binny, Rahul Tripathi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mahipal Lomror, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Steve Smith, Jofra Archer and Ish Sodhi
Released Players: D’Arcy Short, Ben Laughlin, Heinrich Klaasen, Dane Paterson, Zahir Khan, Dushmantha Chameera, Jaydev Unadkat, Anureet Singh, Ankit Sharma and Jatin Saxena.
Chennai Super Kings
Salary cap available: Rs 8.40 crore
Available slots: 2 (Indian 2, Overseas 0)
Retained Players: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, M Vijay, Shane Watson, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, David Willey, Dwayne Bravo, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Sam Billings, Harbhajan Singh, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma, Dhruv Shorey, N Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi.
Released Players: Mark Wood, Kanishk Seth, Kshitiz Sharma
Delhi Daredevils
Salary cap available: Rs 25.50 crore
Available slots: 10 (Indian 7, Overseas 3)
Traded In: Shikhar Dhawan Traded Out: Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem
Retained Players: Shreyas Iyer, Prithvi Shaw, Rishabh Pant, Manjot Kalra, Colin Munro, Chris Morris, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Harshal Patel, Amit Mishra, Kagiso Rabada, Trent Boult, Sandeep Lamichhane, Avesh Khan
Released Players: Gautam Gambhir, Jason Roy, Gurkeerat Mann, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammad Shami, Dan Christian, Sayan Ghosh, Liam Plunkett, Junior Dala, Naman Ojha
Kolkata Knight Riders
Salary cap available: Rs 15.20 cr
Available slots: 12 (Indian 7, Overseas 5)
Retained Players: Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Chris Lynn, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shivam Mavi, Kuldeep Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Prasidh Krishna
Released Players: Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson, Tom Curran, Cameron Delport, Javon Searles, Ishank Jaggi, Apoorv Wankhade, Vinay Kumar
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Salary cap available: Rs 18.15 crore
Available slots: 10 (Indian 8, Overseas 2)
Traded In: Marcus Stoinis
Traded Out: Quinton de Kock, Mandeep Singh
Retained Players: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Parthiv Patel, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Moeen Ali, Colin de Grandhomme, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya, Nathan Coulter-Nile
Released Players: Brendon McCullum, Chris Woakes, Corey Anderson, Sarfraz Khan
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Salary cap available: Rs 9.70 crore
Available slots: 5 (Indian 3, Overseas 2)
Traded In: Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem Traded Out: Shikhar Dhawan
Retained Players: David Warner, Yusuf Pathan, Rashid Khan, Shakib Al Hasan, Billy Stanlake, Kane Williamson, Mohammad Nabi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Manish Pandey, T Natarajan, Ricky Bhui, Sandeep Sharma, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, Basil Thampi, Deepak Hooda.
Released Players: Sachin Baby, Tanmay Agarwal, Wriddhiman Saha, Chris Jordan, Carlos Brathwaite, Alex Hales, Bipul Sharma, Syed Mehdi Hasan
Kings XI Punjab
Salary cap available: Rs 36.20 crore
Available slots: 15 (Indian 11, Overseas 4)
Traded In: Mandeep Singh
Traded Out: Marcus Stoinis
Retained Players: Chris Gayle, David Miller, Karun Nair, Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul, R Ashwin, Ankit Rajpoot, Andrew Tye, Mujeeb ur Rahman
Released Players: Axar Patel, Aaron Finch, Mohit Sharma, Barinder Sran, Yuvraj Singh, Ben Dwarshuis, Manoj Tiwary, Akshdeep Nath, Pardeep Sahu, Mayank Dagar, Manzoor Dar
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