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Retention 2022: Full List of Retained & Released Players

By Parameswaran Sankaranarayanan December 1, 2021

After negotiations and long meetings with players and coaching staff, the eight Indian T20 League franchises announced their list of retained players ahead of the 2022 mega auction. MS Dhonii, Virat Kohlii, Rohit Sharma will remain with Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, respectively. Meanwhile, KL Rahul, David Warner, Rashid Khan, Hardik Pandya, etc., left their respective franchises.

India’s all-format players Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah, and Rishabh Pant found their names in the retention list. Hyderabad and Punjab retained uncapped players, as batter Abdul Samad and young pace bowlers Arshdeep Singh and Umran Malik made the cut. Kieron Pollard, Glenn Maxwell, Moeen Ali, Anrich Nortje, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Jos Buttler, and Kane Williamson are the overseas retained players.

From Raina to Warner, here’s the complete list of players retained and released by the eight franchises in the Indian T20 League.

Chennai 

Retained: MS Dhonii, Ravindra Jadeja, Moeen Ali, Ruturaj Gaikwad

Released: Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, Ambati Rayudu, Dwayne Bravo, Imran Tahir, Mitchell Santner, Robin Uthappa, Josh Hazlewood, Lungi Ngidi, Sam Curran, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Krishnappa Gowtham, Karn Sharma, Narayan Jagadeesan, KM Asif, R Sai Kishore, Bhagath Varma, Harishankar Reddy, C Hari Nishaanth

Kolkata

Retained: Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakaravarthy, Venkatesh Iyer

Released: Eoin Morgan, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Shakib Al Hasan, Harbhajan Singh, Tim Southee, Dinesh Karthik, Lockie Ferguson, Ben Cutting, Tim Seifert, Kuldeep Yadav, Pawan Negi, Prasidh Krishna, Karun Nair, Sandeep Warrier, Rahul Tripathi, Sheldon Jackson, Rinku Singh, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Vaibhav Arora

Delhi

Retained: Rishabh Pant, Anrich Nortje, Axar Patel, Prithvi Shaw

Released: Shikhar Dhawan, Kagiso Rabada, Steve Smith, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Tom Curran, Sam Billings, Ben Dwarshuis, Pravin Dubey, Avesh Khan, Lalit Yadav, Manimaran Siddharth, Vishnu Vinod, Ripal Patel, Lukman Meriwala

Bangalore

Retained: Virat Kohlii, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj

Released: Yuzvendra Chahal, Wanindu Hasaranga, Kyle Jamieson, Washington Sundar, Dushmantha Chameera, Navdeep Saini, Dan Christian, Tim David, Devdutt Padikkal, Harshal Patel, George Garton, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Deep, Pavan Deshpande, KS Bharat, Sachin Baby, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Rajat Patidar, Suyash Prabhudessai

Mumbai

Retained: Rohit Sharma, Kieron Pollard, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav

Released: Hardik Pandya, Quinton de Kock, Krunal Pandya, Trent Boult, Piyush Chawla, James Neesham, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Chris Lynn, Ishan Kishan, Adam Milne, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Saurabh Tiwary, Anmolpreet Singh, Aditya Tare, Marco Jansen, Anukul Roy, Mohsin Khan, Yudhvir Singh, Arjun Tendulkar

Punjab

RetainedMayank Agarwal, Arshdeep Singh

Released: KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Mohammed Shami, Adil Rashid, Chris Jordan, Nicholas Pooran, Moises Henriques, Fabian Allen, Aiden Markram, Nathan Ellis, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Prabhsimran Singh, Darshan Nalkande, Ravi Bishnoi, Murugan Ashwin, Jalaj Saxena, Harpreet Brar, Shahrukh Khan, Ishan Porel, Utkarsh Singh, Saurabh Kumar

Rajasthan

RetainedSanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal

Released: Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, David Miller, Mustafizur Rahman, Tabraiz Shamsi, Evin Lewis, Chris Morris, Jaydev Unadkat, Oshane Thomas, Liam Livingstone, Glenn Phillips, Shivam Dube, Mayank Markande, Chetan Sakariya, Rahul Tewatia, Kartik Tyagi, Anuj Rawat, Riyan Parag, Mahipal Lomror, Shreyas Gopal, Manan Vohra, KC Cariappa, Akash Singh, Kuldip Yadav

Hyderabad

RetainedKane Williamson, Abdul Samad, Umran Malik

Released: David Warner, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jonny Bairstow, Jason Roy, Jason Holder, Sherfane Rutherford, Mohammad Nabi, Manish Pandey, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Kedar Jadhav, Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan, Wriddhiman Saha, Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem, Sandeep Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, Basil Thampi, Shreevats Goswami, Priyam Garg, Abhishek Sharma, Jagadeesha Suchith, Virat Singh

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