IPL 2024: Retentions, Releases and Squads

Here's a team-wise breakdown of players released, retained, traded and squads as they stand on Deadline Day before the IPL 2024 Auction scheduled on December 19.

It is to be noted that the trading window will be open till December 12, 2023 and the squad compositions and the available purse is still subject to change going into the auction.

Mumbai Indians

Purse available: 17.75 Crore | Slots available: 8 | Overseas slots available: 4

Headline Move:Hardik Pandya's big home-coming. Releasing injury-riddled pace-ace Jofra Archer as well as young batting sensation Tristan Stubbs. Pandya's entry has resulted in Cameron Green being traded - in an all-cash deal again - to RCB, bolstering their auction purse.

Released: Arshad Khan, Ramandeep Singh, Hrithik Shokeen, Raghav Goyal, Jofra Archer, Tristan Stubbs, Duan Jansen, Jhye Richardson, Riley Meredith, Chris Jordan, Sandeep Warrier, Cameron Green (Traded to RCB)

Retained: Hardik Pandya (Traded from GT), Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Jason Behrendorff, Romario Shepherd (Traded from LSG)

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Purse available: 23.25 Crore | Slots available: 6 | Overseas slots available: 3

Headline Move: Letting go of HHH - Harshal, Hazlewood and Hasaranga, which will need them to reshape their bowling attack. They added another dimension to Hardik's GT-MI swap as they brought in Aussie all-rounder Cameron Green from MI (for INR 17.50 Cr)

Released: Wanindu Hasarangha, Harshal Patel, Josh Hazlewood, Finn Allen, Michael Bracewell, David Willey, Wayne Parnell, Sonu Yadav, Avinash Singh, Siddharth Kaul, Kedar Jadhav

Retained: Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, Virat Kohli, Cameron Green (Traded in from MI) Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Suyash Prabhudessai, Will Jacks, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Mayank Dagar (Traded in from SRH), Vyshak Vijaykumar, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar

Kolkata Knight Riders

Purse available: 32.7 Crore | Slots available: 12 | Overseas slots available: 4

Headline Move: Leaving out Shardul Thakur and Lockie Ferguson while keeping faith in old warhorses Andre Russell and Sunil Narine.

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

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

Gujarat Titans

Purse available: 38.15 Crore | Slots available: 8 | Overseas slots available: 2

Headline Move: Trading their captain to Mumbai Indians