Indian Premier League 2021 Teams Squads

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Here is the list of players with their teams for the Indian Premier League 2021.

 Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)

Virat Kohli ® Batsman 17 crore

Devdutt Padikkal ® Batsman 20 lakhs

Sachin Baby Batsman 20 lakhs

Rajat Patidar Batsman 20 lakhs

Suyash Prabhudessai Batsman 20 lakhs

KS Bharat Batsman 20 lakhs

Josh Philippe ® Wicket-keeper 20 lakh

AB de Villiers ® Wicket-keeper 11 crore

Mohammed Azharuddeen Wicket-keeper 20 lakhs

Washington Sundar ® All-Rounder 3.2 crore

Shahbaz Ahmed ® All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Pawan Deshpande ® All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Glenn Maxwell All-Rounder 14.25 crore

Daniel Christian All-Rounder 4.8 crore

Kyle Jamieson Bowler 15 crore

Navdeep Saini ® Bowler 3 crore

Mohammed Siraj ® Bowler 2.6 crore

Adam Zampa ® Bowler 1.5 crore

Yuzvendra Chahal ® Bowler 6 crore

Kane Richardson ® Bowler 4 crore

*R- Retained

The RCB squad now has 22 players after the IPL 2021 auction. They picked 5 Indian domestic players and 3 foreign stars to complete their squad. The 26-year-old Kyle Jamieson has been added to the RCB squad alongside Australians Dan Christian and Glenn Maxwell. The latter, who failed to hit a single six in the entire IPL 2020 season, was picked for Rs. 14.25 crores. He had already dreamt of playing alongside Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers and he got his wish.

Mumbai Indians Squad (MI)

 

Player Role Price

Rohit Sharma ® Batsman 15 crore

Surya Kumar Yadav ® Batsman 3.20 crore

Anmolpreet Singh ® Batsman 80 lakhs

Chris Lyn ® Batsman 2 crore

Anukul Roy Batsman 20 lakhs

Ishan Kishan ® Wicket Keeper 6.20 crore

Quinton de Kock ® Wicket Keeper 2.80 crore

Aditya Tare ® Wicket Keeper 20 lakhs

Hardik Pandya ® All-Rounder 11 crore

Krunal Pandya ® All-Rounder 8.80 crore

Kieron Pollard ® All-Rounder 5.40 crore

James Neesham All-Rounder 50 lakhs

Yudhvir Charak All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Arjun Tendulkar All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Rahul Chahar ® All-Rounder 1.90 crore

Nathan Coulter Nile Bowler 5 Crore

Adam Milne Bowler 3.2 crore

Piyush Chawla Bowler 2.4 crore

Marco Jansen Bowler 20 lakhs

Jayant Yadav ® Bowler 50 lakhs

Trent Boult ® Bowler 3.20 crore

Jasprit Bumrah ® Bowler 7 crore

Mohsin Khan ® Bowler 20 lakhs

*R- Retained

When it comes to judging IPL 2021 squads, hardly anyone can argue that MI possesses the strongest of them all. The MI management smartly picked up their foreign bowlers in Adam Milne and Nathan Coulter-Nile and the all-rounder from New Zealand, James Neesham. They filled their quota of a senior leg-spinner in Piyush Chawla as well. Their scouts followed Yudhvir Charak and Marco Jensen and managed to get them on their side. The IPL 2021 auction came to an end with the junior Tendulkar, Arjun, being picked by MI for his base price of Rs. 20 lakhs.

Chennai Super Kings Squad (CSK)

Player Role Price

Suresh Raina ® Batsman 11 crore

Faf du Plessis ® Batsmen 1.60 crore

Ruturaj Gaikwad ® Batsman 20 lakhs

Ambati Rayudu ® Batsman 2.20 crore

Cheteshwar Pujara Batsman 50 lakhs

C Hari Nishanth Batsman 20 lakhs

MS Dhoni ® Wicket Keeper 15 crore

Narayan Jagadeesabn ® Wicket Keeper 20 lakhs

KM Asif ® All-Rounder 40 lakhs

Karn Sharma ® All-Rounder 5 crore

Dwayne Bravo ® All-Rounder 6.40 crore

Sam Curran ® All-Rounder 5.50 crore

Ravindra Jadeja ® All-Rounder 7 crore

Moeen Ali All-Rounder 7 crore

K Gowtham All-Rounder 9.25 crore

Shardul Thakur ® Bowler 2.60 crore

Mitchell Santner ® Bowler 50 lakhs

Lungi Ngidi ® Bowler 50 lakhs

Imran Tahir ® Bowler 1 crore

Josh Hazlewood ® Bowler 2 crore

Deepak Chahar ® Bowler 80 lakhs

M Harisankar Reddy Bowler 20 lakhs

K. Bhagath Varma Bowler 20 lakhs

*R- Retained

The MS Dhoni-led side grabbed eyeballs with the peculiar addition of Cheteshwar Pujara to their squad. CSK owner, K Viswanath revealed the pick to be ‘out of respect for Pujara’s contribution to India’ and there has been no doubt about that. CSK grabbed Moeen Ali, who scored a raving quickfire 18-ball 43 at CSK’s home, the Chepauk in a Test match just a couple of days before the auction. Ali was joined by Karnataka all-rounder K Gowtham to solve CSK’s off-spin conundrum. They also picked three domestic players in MH Reddy, KB Varma and CH Nishaanth to complete their tally of 25 players.

Delhi Capitals Squad (DC)

Player Role Price

Shikhar Dhawan ® Batsman 5.20 crore

Prithvi Shaw ® Batsman 1.20 crore

Ajinkya Rahane ® Batsman 5.25 crore

Shimron Hetmyer ® Batsman 7.75 crore

Shreyas Iyer ® Batsman 7 crore

Steven Smith Batsman 2.2 crore

Sam Billings Batsman 2 crore

Ripal Patel Batsman 20 lakhs

Vishnu Vinod Batsman 20 lakhs

Rishabh Pant ® Wicket Keeper 15 crore

Pravin Dubey ® All-Rounder 10 lakh

Lalit Yadav ® All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Tom Curran All-Rounder 5.25 crore

Marcus Stoinis ® All-Rounder 4.80 crore

Kagiso Rabada ® Bowler 4.20 crore

Anrich Nortje ® Bowler 30 lakhs

Chris Woakes ® Bowler 1.5 crore

Axar Patel ® Bowler 5 crore

Daniel Sams ® Bowler -

Amit Mishra ® Bowler 4 crore

Harshal Patel ® Bowler 20 lakhs

Ishant Sharma ® Bowler 1.10 crore

Avesh Khan ® Bowler 70 lakhs

Ravichandran Ashwin ® Bowler 7.60 crore

Umesh Yadav Bowler 1 crore

Lukman Meriwala Bowler 20 lakhs

M Siddharth Bowler 20 lakhs

*R- Retained

The runners-up of IPL 2020 began the IPL 2021 auction with a steal buy of Steve Smith for just Rs 2.20 crores. Later in the day, they also roped in Tom Curran and Sam Billings to end their day. With the foreigners being signed up towards both ends, the Capitals also bought 5 Indian players including the pacer Umesh Yadav to complete their 25 players for the upcoming season.

Punjab Lions Squad (PBKS)

Player Role Price

Arshdeep Singh ® Batsman 20 lakhs

Nicholas Pooran ® Batsman 4.20 crore

Chris Gayle ® Batsman 2 crore

Prabhsimran Singh ® Batsman 55 lakhs

Mayank Agarwal ® Batsman 1 crore

Sarfaraz Khan ® Batsman 25 lakhs

Harpreet Brar ® Batsman 20 lakhs

Darshan Nalkande ® Batsman 30 lakhs

Dawid Malan Batsman 1.5 crore

Shahrukh Khan Batsman 5.25 crore

KL Rahul © ® Wicket Keeper 11 crore

Chris Jordan ® All-Rounder 3 crore

Mandeep Singh ® All-Rounder 1.40 crore

Deepak Hooda ® All-Rounder 50 lakhs

Moises Henriques All-Rounder 4.2 crore

Jalaj Saxena All-Rounder 30 lakhs

Utkarsh Singh All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Saurabh Kumar Bowler 20 lakhs

Jhye Richardson Bowler 14 crore

Riley Meredith Bowler 8 crore

Mohammed Shami ® Bowler 4.80 crore

Ravi Bishnoi ® Bowler 2 crore

Ishan Porel ® Bowler 20 lakhs

Murugan Ashwin ® Bowler 20 lakhs

*R- Retained

Preity Zinta was at the helm of things for the fourteenth year in a row, but this time with a changed name on the jersey. The ‘Punjab Kings’ had plenty of money in their purse but couldn’t really manage the high profile picks in IPL 2021 auction. They were lucky to get the No. 1 ranked ICC T20I batsman in Dawid Malan for just Rs 1.5 crores but weren’t at their best for the rest of the day. PBKS have got three X-factor foreigners like Jhye Richardson, Moises Henriques and Fabian Allen along with four domestic Indian players.

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)

Player Role Price

Eoin Morgan ® Batsman 5.25 crore

Sheldon Jackson Batsman 20 lakhs

Harry Gurney ® Batsman 75 lakhs

Karun Nair Batsman 50 lakhs

Nitish Rana ® Batsman 3.40 crore

Shubman Gill ® Batsman 1.80 crore

Rinku Singh ® Batsman 80 lakhs

Rahul Tripathi ® Batsman 60 lakhs

Dinesh Karthik ® Wicket Keeper 7.40 crore

Sunil Narine ® All-Rounder 12.50 crore

Andre Russell ® All-Rounder 8.50 crore

Shakib Al Hasan All-Rounder 3.2 crore

Ben Cutting All-Rounder 75 lakhs

Pawan Negi All-Rounder 50 lakhs

Venkatesh Iyer All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Pat Cummins ® Bowler 15.5 crore

Varun Chakravarthy ® Bowler 4 crore

Lockie Ferguson ® Bowler 1.60 crore

Kuldeep Yadav ® Bowler 5.80 crore

Kamlesh Nagarkoti ® Bowler 3.20 crore

Shivam Mavi ® Bowler 3 crore

Prasidh Krishna ® Bowler 20 lakhs

Sandeep Warrier ® Bowler 20 lakhs

Harbhajan Singh Bowler 2 crore

Vaibhav Arora Bowler 20 lakhs

*R- Retained

KKR picked two veteran spinners, Harbhajan Singh and all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan for IPL 2021. They will be very happy with their outing in the auction as they also got the Australian all-rounder Ben Cutting along with Indians Karun Nair and Pawan Negi, who has a healthy IPL experience in their kitties. KKR also got three domestic players with the veteran Sheldon Jackson making a comeback to the side.

Rajasthan Royals (RR)

 

Player Role Price

Manan Vohra ® Batsman 20 lakhs

David Miller ® Batsman 75 lakhs

Riyan Parag ® Batsman 20 lakhs

Yashasvi Jaiswal ® Batsman 2.40 crore

Robin Uthappa ® Batsman 3 crore

Sanju Samson (Captain) ® Wicket Keeper 8 crore

Jos Buttler ® Wicket Keeper 4.40 crore

Anuj Rawat ® Wicket Keeper 80 lakhs

Ben Stokes ® All-Rounder 12.50 crore

Mahipal Lomror ® All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Rahul Tewatia ® All-Rounder 3 crore

Shreyas Gopal ® All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Shivam Dube All-Rounder 4.4 crore

Chris Morris All-Rounder 16.25 crore

Jofra Archer ® Bowler 7.20 crore

Jaydev Unadkat ® Bowler 3 crore

Kartik Tyagi ® Bowler 1.30 crore

Mayank Markande ® Bowler 2 crore

Andrew Tye ® Bowler 1 crore

Mustafizur Rahman Bowler 1 crore

Chetan Sakariya Bowler 1.2 crore

KC Cariappa Bowler 20 lakhs

Liam Livingstone Bowler 75 lakhs

Kuldip Yadav Bowler 20 lakhs

Akash Singh Bowler 20 lakhs

*R- Retained

The one that made the headlines in the IPL Teams & squads list is Chris Morris. The South African all-rounder got the fattest paycheck of them all in the history of IPL auctions when the auctioneer sold him to the Royals for Rs 16.25 crores. The rest of the picks for the Royals weren’t as extravagant as they picked the foreigners Mustafizur Rahman and Liam Livingstone alongside 5 Indians. The only Indian to have played international cricket out of the 5 was Shivam Dube.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)

 

Player Role Price

David Warner ® Batsman 12.50 crore

Manish Pandey ® Batsman 11 crore

Kane Williamson ® Batsman 3 crore

Priyam Garg ® Batsman 1.90 crore

Virat Singh ® Batsman 1.90 crore

Abhishek Sharma ® Batsman 55 lakhs

Jonny Bairstow ® Wicket Keeper 2.20 crore

Wriddhiman Saha ® Wicket Keeper 1.20 crore

Shreevats Goswami ® Wicket Keeper 1 crore

Vijay Shankar ® All-Rounder 3.20 crore

Mohammad Nabi ® All-Rounder 1 crore

Mitchell Marsh ® All-Rounder 2 crore

Jason Holder ® All-Rounder 75 lakhs

Abdul Samad ® All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Kedar Jadhav All-Rounder 2 crore

J Suchith All-Rounder 30 lakhs

Rashid Khan ® Bowler 9 crore

T Natarajan ® Bowler 40 lakhs

Khaleel Ahmed ® Bowler 3 crore

Sandeep Sharma ® Bowler 3 crore

Basil Thampi ® Bowler 95 lakhs

Shahbaz Nadeem ® Bowler 3.20 crore

Siddharth Kaul ® Bowler 3.80 crore

Bhuvneshwar Kumar ® Bowler 8.50 crore

Mujeeb ur Rahman Bowler 1.5 crore

*R- Retained

SRH picked just 3 players in the auction and completed their set of 25, which shows the promise the team management has in the rest of their players. The three lucky guys to get to wear orange in IPL 2021 along with the retained players are Kedar Jadhav, Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Jagadeesha Suchith.

IPL Teams, Captains, Home Grounds and Coaches

 

Team Home Ground City Coach Captain

Mumbai Indians, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, Mahela Jayawardene, Rohit Sharma

Chennai Super Kings M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Stephen Fleming MS Dhoni

Delhi Capitals Arun Jaitley Stadium Delhi, NCR Ricky Ponting Shreyas Iyer

Punjab Kings IS Bindra Stadium Mohali, Punjab Anil Kumble KL Rahul

Kolkata Knight Riders Eden Gardens Kolkata, West Bengal Brendon McCullum Eion Morgan

Rajasthan Royals Sawai Mansingh Stadium Jaipur, Rajasthan Andrew McDonald N/A

Royal Challengers Bangalore M. Chinnaswamy Stadium Bengaluru, Karnataka Simon Katich Virat Kohli

Sunrisers Hyderabad, Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad, Telangana, Trevor Bayliss, David Warner

Released and Retained List of Players for IPL 2021

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Here is the full list of players retained and released by all eight franchises.

Mumbai Indians:

Players retained -

Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan (WK), Chris Lynn, Anmolpreet Singh, Saurabh Tiwary, Aditya Tare (WK), Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan

Released players:

Lasith Malinga, Mitch McClenaghan, James Pattinson, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Sherfane Rutherford, Prince Balwant Rai, Digvijay Deshmukh.

Chennai Super Kings:

Players retained -

N Jagadeesan, R Gaikwad, KM Asif, R Jadeja, MS Dhoni, J Hazlewood, K Sharma, A Rayudu, S Raina, I Tahir, D Chahar, Faf du Plessis, S Thakur, M Santner, D Bravo, L Ngidi, S Curran, S Kishore.

Released players:

Harbhajan Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Piyush Chawla, Shane Watson, Murali Vijay, Monu Singh.

Royal Challengers Bangalore:

Players retained -

Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Yuzvendra Chahal, Devdutt Padikkal, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa, Josh Philippe, Shahbaz Ahmed and Pavan Deshpande.

Released players:

Aaron Finch, Chris Morris, Isuru Udana, Moeen Ali, Pawan Negi, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Shivam Dube, Dale Steyn, Parthiv Patel and Umesh Yadav.

Rajasthan Royals:

Players retained -

Sanju Samson, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Riyan Parag, Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror, Kartik Tyagi, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, David Miller, Manan Vohra, Robin Uthappa.

Released players:

Steve Smith, Ankit Rajpoot, Oshane Thomas, Akash Singh, Varun Aaron, Tom Curran, Anirudha Joshi, Shashank Singh.

Delhi Capitals:

Players retained -

Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma, R Ashwin, Lalit Yadav, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, Pravin Dubey, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Woakes, Daniel Sams.

Released players:

Mohit Sharma, Tushar Deshpande, Keemo Paul, Sandeep Lamichhane, Alex Carey, Jason Roy.

Kolkata Knight Riders:

Players retained -

Eoin Morgan, Dinesh Karthik, Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Rahul Tripathi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Pat Cummins, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Tim Seifert.

Released players:

Tom Banton, Chris Green, Nikhil Naik, Siddharth M and Siddhesh Lad

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 

Players retained -

David Warner ©, Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha, Abdul Samad, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh

Released players:

Sanjay Yadav, B Sandeep, Billy Stanlake, Fabian Allen, Yarra Prithviraj

Kings XI Punjab:

Players retained -

KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Nicholas Pooran, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Prabhsimran Singh, Mohammed Shami, Chris Jordan, Darshan Nalkande, Ravi Bishnoi, Murugan Ashwin, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Ishan Porel

Released players:

Glenn Maxwell, Karun Nair, Hardus Viljoen, Jagadeesha Suchith, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Sheldon Cottrell, Jimmy Neesham, Krishnappa Gowtham, Tajinder Singh.

Available Slot and Purse

Here are some details of the Indian Premier League Auction.

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Auction for 2021 IPL to begin on 15th of this month in Chennai. Only 292 are shortlisted from 1114 registered cricketers.

Harbhajan Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Glenn Maxwell, Steve Smith, Shakib Al Hasan, Moeen Ali, Sam Billings, Liam Plunkett, Jason Roy & Mark Wood are capped at 2 crores.

Alex Hales, David Malan, Alex Carey, Nathan Counter-Nile, Jhye Richardson, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Adil Rashid, Shaun Marsh, Tom Curran, David Willey, Lewis Gregory, Morne Morkel are capped at 1.5 crores.

AaronFinch, Evin Lewis, Hanuma Vihari, Sheldon Cottrell, MustafizurRahman, Umesh Yadav, Moises Henriques, Marnus Labuschagne, Jason Behrendorff, Billy Stanlake, Matthew Wade are capped at 1 crore.

Chris Morris, Corey Anderson, Darren Bravo, Ben Cutting, Kyle Jamieson, Fabian Allen, Daniel Christian, Liam Livingstone, Tim Southee, KeemoPaul, Fidel Edwards, MohammadMahmud Ullah, SherfaneRutherford, HiltonCartwright, James Faulkner are capped at 0.75 crores.

• Noor Ahmad Lakanwal, a 16-year-old, left-arm-slow-blower from Afghanistan is the Youngest Player on the shortlist.
• Nayan Doshi, a 42-year old, left-arm-slow-orthodox-bowler is the oldest player on the shortlist.
• Harbhajan Singh is the most experienced player in Test and ODI formats and the second-oldest player in the list after Nayan Doshi.
• Martin Guptill is the Most experienced T20 player on the List.
• Piyush Chawla played the most IPL matches followed by Harbhajan Singh with four matches short.

Most Experienced Players in the Indian Premier League

Thisara Perera and Aaron Finch Played for the SIX IPL teams in 13 years of IPL.

Aaron Finch played for RR, DD, PWI, SRH, MI, GL, KXIP, RCB.

Thisara Perera played for CSK,KTK,MI,SRH,KXIP,RPS.

The number of players according to specialization.

There are 128 All-rounders, 40 Batsman, 99 Bowlers, 23 Wicket keepers.

In which 7 Wicket keepers, 40 Bowlers, 14 Batsman, 49 All-Rounders are capped.

Players According to Nationality.

7 Afghans, 35 Australians, 4 Bangladeshis, 17 Brits, 164 Indians, 1 Nepali, 20 New Zealand, 14 South Africans, 9 Sri Lankans, 1 UAE, 1 USA, 19 West Indies nationalist are on the shortlist.

In Percentages

2.40 % Afghans, 12 % Australians, 1.4 % Bangladesh, 5.9 % Brits, 56 % Indians, 0.34 % Nepali’s, 6.84 % New Zealanders, 4.74 % South Africans, 3.0 % Sri Lankans, 0.34 % UAE, 0.34 % Americans, 6.6 % West Indians are short listed.

According to the IPL, only 22 Overseas player Slots are available and 39 Indian player slots available.

That’s only 17.1875% of overseas player will be selected from 128 overseas players. Only 23.7804 % of Indians will be selected from 164 Indians.