List of players released and retained by all franchises ahead of IPL 2020 auction

With the stage being set for the IPL 2020 auction, teams are busy chalking strategies to assemble their best bet for the upcoming marquee tournament.

On Friday, on all eight franchises revealed their list of players who have been retained and released.

Here's the complete list of players released and retained of all the eight teams ahead of the IPL 2020 auction.

Mumbai Indians

Released Players:

Yuvraj Singh, MayankMarkande, BarinderSran, Rasikh Salam, Pankaj Jaswal, Siddhesh Lad, Evin Lewis, Adam Milne, Jason Behrendorff, Beuran Hendricks, Ben Cutting, Alzarri Joseph

Retained Players:

Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, JaspritBumrah, Krunal Pandya, IshanKishan, Jayant Yadav, Aditya Tare, Anukul Roy, Dhawal Kulkarni, Surya Kumar Yadav, Rahul Chahar, Anmolpreet Singh, Quinton de Kock, Kieron Pollard, Sherfane Rutherford, LasithMalinga, Mitchell McClenaghan, Trent Boult

Kings XI Punjab

Released Players:

R Ashwin, AnkitRajpoot, Sam Curran, David Miller, Andrew Tye, VarunChakravarthy

Retained Players:

KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair, Nicholas Pooran, Sarfaraz Khan, Mandeep Singh, KrishnappaGowtham, Mohammed Shami, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Arshdeep Singh, MuruganAshwin, HardusViljoen, JagadeeshaSuchith, HarpreetBrar, DarshanNalkande

Kolkata Knight Riders

Released Players:

Chris Lynn, Carlos Brathwaite, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Nikhil Naik, KC Cariappa, Joe Denly, Srikant Munde, YarraPrithviraj, AnrichNortje

Retained Players:

Dinesh Karthik, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Shubman Gill, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier, Harry Gurney, KamleshNagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Siddhesh Lad

Rajasthan Royals

Released Players:

Ashton Turner, Oshane Thomas, ShubhamRanjane, Prashant Chopra, IshSodhi, Aryaman Birla, JaydevUnadkat, Rahul Tripathi, Stuart Binny, Liam Livingstone, SudheshanMidhun. AjinkyaRahane, K Gowtham

Retained Players:

Sanju Samson, Jofra Archer, RiyanParag, Shashank Singh, Shreyas Gopal, MahipalLomror, Varun Aaron, Manan Vohra, Steve Smith, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler

Delhi Capitals

Released Players:

HanumaVihari, JalajSaxena, ManjotKalra, Ankush Bains, Nathu Singh, BandaruAyappa, Chris Morris, Colin Ingram, Colin Munro

Retained Players:

ShikharDhawan, Prithvi Shaw, ShreyasIyer, Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, RavichandranAshwin, AjinkyaRahane, KagisoRabada, Keemo Paul, Sandeep Lamichhane

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Released Players:

Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Martin Guptill, Deepak Hooda, Ricky Bhui

Retained Players:

Kane Williamson, David Warner, Manish Pandey, Vijay Shankar, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi, Abhishek Sharma, Jonny Bairstow, WriddhimanSaha, ShreevatsGoswami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, SiddarthKaul, ShahbazNadeem, Billy Stanlake, Basil Thampi, T Natarajan

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Released Players:

AkshdeepNath, Himmat Singh, Prayas Ray Barman, KulwantKhejroliya, Milind Kumar, Heinrich Klaasen, Colin de Grandhomme, Tim Southee, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Marcus Stoinis, ShimronHetmyer

Retained Players:

ViratKohli, Moeen Ali, YuzvendraChahal, Parthiv Patel, Mohammad Siraj, Umesh Yadav, PawanNegi, DevduttPadikkal, Gurkeerat Mann, Washington Sundar, ShivamDube, Navdeep Saini, AB de Villiers

Chennai Super Kings

Released Players:

Mohit Sharma, David Willey DhruvShorey, Sam Billings, ChaitanyaBishnoi

Retained Players:

MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Shane Watson, KM Asif, Dwayne Bravo, Deepak Chahar, Faf Du Plessis, RuturajGaikwad, Harbhajan Singh, Imran Tahir, Murali Vijay, RavindraJadeja, KedarJadhav, Narayan Jagadeesan, Monu Kumar, Mitchell Santner, Karn Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Lungi Ngidi