The six IPL teams who had the option to retain, release and trade players have released the 101 players which included 37 overseas players for IPL 2016. The biggest names released were the likes of Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Kartik, Ishan Sharma, Dale Steyn, Kevin Pietersen, Darren Sammy, Ravi Bopara and Ryan ten Doeschate.
Here is the full list of players released franchise wise:
Delhi Daredevils
- Yuvraj Singh
- C.M. Gautam
- Domnic Joseph Muthuswamy
- Jaydev Unadkat
- K. K. Jiyaz
- Kona Srikar Bharat
- Manoj Tiwary
- Angelo Mathews
- Gurinder Sandhu
- Marcus Stoinis
Kings XI Punjab
- Karanveer Singh
- Parvinder Awana
- Shivam Sharma
- Virender Sehwag
- Yogesh Golwalkar
- Beuran Hendricks
- George Bailey
- Thisara Perera
Kolkata Knight Riders
- Veer Pratap Singh
- Aditya Garhwal
- K.C Cariappa
- Sumit Narwal
- Vaibhav Rawal
- Patrick Cummins
- Ryan ten Doeschate
- James Neesham
- Azhar Mahmood
- Johan Botha
Mumbai Indians
- Aditya Tare
- Abhimanyu Mithun
- Pawan Suyal
- Pragyan Ojha
- Aiden Blizzard
- Aaron Finch
- Alex Hales
- Ben Hilfenhaus
- Colin Munro
Royal Challengers Bangalore
- Vijay Zol
- Ashok Dinda
- Dinesh Karthik
- Iqbal Abdullah
- Jalaj Saxena
- Manvinder Bisla
- Sandeep Warrier
- Shishir Bhavane
- Subramaniam Badrinath
- Yogesh Takawale
- Nic Maddinson
- Darren Sammy
- Rilee Rossouw
- Sean Abbott
Sunrisers Hyderabad
- Chama Milind
- Gade Hanuma Vihari
- Ishant Sharma
- Laxmi Ratan Shukla
- Prasanth Padmanabhan
- Praveen Kumar
- Dale Steyn
- Kevin Pietersen
- Ravi Bopara