IPL 6 auction - Present squads
The IPL is back again. The sixth edition of the tournament is due to start in April but the IPL auctions are all set to kick off. 101 players will go under the hammer during the February 3 auction and each franchise has a salary cap of $12.5 million to spend on their squads, The franchises can have a maximum of 33 players, which would include 11 from overseas. Though the top teams look well settled, this is the chance for the struggling teams to bolster their squad. This IPL will feature 9 teams including the new look Hyderabad side – Hyderabad Sun Raisers.
Here is a team-by-team break-up of the squads and the amount left with them to spend during the auction.
Chennai Super Kings
The most successful IPL franchise will look to win back the trophy this season from the Kolkata Knight Riders. The MS Dhoni led side has already signing the young sensation Baba Aparajith. Though they have 16 slots left to be filled in, they would like to add a few fringe players.
Current Indian players: 11, Slots left: 11
Current overseas players: 6, Slots left: 5
Salary cap spent: $9.4 mn , Salary cap remaining: $3.1 mn
Squad: MS Dhoni, M Vijay, S Anirudha, Suresh Raina, Wriddhiman Saha, S Badrinath, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shadab Jakati, B Aparajith, Vijay Shankar, Michael Hussey, Ben Hilfenhaus, Faf du Plessis, Albie Morkel, Nuwan Kulasekara, Dwayne Bravo.
New Signings: B Aparajith, Vijay Shankar
Released: George Bailey, Doug Bollinger, Joginder Sharma, Suraj Randiv, Yo Mahesh, Abhinav Mukund, Scott Styris, Sudeep Tyagi, K Vasudevadas, G Vignesh.
Delhi Daredevils
They fizzled out after a great start last season. The team with the most dangerous bowling attack, the Daredevils will look to strengthen their batting this season. With 10 slots left, the Delhi franchise might look to add in a quality batsman.
Current Indian players: 15, slots left: 7
Current overseas players: 8, slots left: 3
Salary cap spent: $11.1 mn, salary cap remaining: $1.4 mn
Squad: Virender Sehwag, Irfan Pathan, Naman Ojha, Ajit Agarkar, Yogesh Nagar, Umesh Yadav, Shahbaz Nadeem, Varun Aaron, Unmukt Chand, Pawan Negi, Manpreet Juneja, Kedar Jadhav, Siddharth Kaul, Sujit Nayak, Venugopal Rao, Mahela Jayawardene, Ross Taylor, David Warner, Roelof van der Merwe, Kevin Pietersen, Morne Morkel, Andre Russell, Gulam Bodi.
New Signings: Kedar Jadhav, Siddharth Kaul, Sujit Nayak, Venugopal Rao (re-signed), Gulam Bodi (re-signed).
Released: Puneet Bisht, Robin Bist, Gulam Bodi, Doug Bracewell, Aaron Finch, Sunny Gupta, Glenn Maxwell, Prashant Naik, Kuldeep Raval, Aavishkar Salvi, Venugopal Rao, Vikas Mishra, Tejashwi Yadav, Zafir Patel.
Kings XI Punjab
The struggling Punjab franchise should look to buy big this auctions. Priety Zinta’s side performed poorly last season and needs reinforcements in every department.
Current Indian players: 14, slots left: 8
Current overseas players: 7, slots left: 4
Salary cap spent: $5.6 mn, salary cap remaining: $6.9 mn
Present squad: Piyush Chawla, Praveen Kumar, Mandeep Singh, Siddharth Chitnis, Nitin Saini, Sunny Singh, Bhargav Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, Paul Valthaty, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Harmeet Singh Bansal, Parvinder Awana, Rajagopal Sathish, Manan Vohra, Adam Gilchrist, Shaun Marsh, David Hussey, David Miller, Ryan Harris, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Azhar Mahmood
New Signings before auction: Manan Vohra
Released: Kyle Abbott, Love Ablish, Amit Yadav, Ben Cutting, Paras Dogra, James Faulkner, Vikramjeet Malik, Abhishek Nayar, Ramesh Powar, Nathan Rimmington, Stuart Broad
Kolkata Knight Riders
The Champions of the last edition has a very strong squad. A very balanced side with both batting and bowling departments filled with stars.
Current Indian players: 12, slots left: 10
Current overseas players: 9, slots left: 2
Salary cap spent: $10.3 mn, salary cap remaining: $2.2 mn
Squad: Gautam Gambhir, Manoj Tiwary, Debabrata Das, Manvinder Bisla, Yusuf Pathan, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Rajat Bhatia, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Iqbal Abdulla, Shami Ahmed, Pradeep Sangwan, Sarabjit Singh Ladda, Eoin Morgan, Brad Haddin, Brendon McCullum, Shakib Al Hasan, Ryan ten Doeschate, Jacques Kallis, Brett Lee, James Pattinson, Sunil Narine
Released: Marchant de Lange, Chirag Jani, Sanju Samson, Iresh Saxena, Jaydev Unadkat
Mumbai Indians
The Mumbai franchise struggled with their batting last season and will look to restructure their batting order.
Current Indian players: 17, slots left: 5
Current overseas players: 6, slots left: 5
Salary cap spent: $10.2 mn, salary cap remaining: $2.3 mn
Squad: Harbhajan Singh, Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma, Munaf Patel, Amitoze Singh, Dinesh Karthik, Pragyan Ojha, Ambati Rayudu, Dhawal Kulkarni, Abu Nechim Ahmed, Aditya Tare, Pawan Suyal, Suryakumar Yadav, Sushant Marathe, Yuzvendra Chahal, Rishi Dhawan, Jalaj Saxena, Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Aiden Blizzard, James Franklin, Mitchell Johnson, Dwayne Smith
New Signing: Rishi Dhawan, Jalaj Saxena
Released: Robin Peterson, Herschelle Gibbs, RP Singh, Apoorv Wankhade, Kuldeep Yadav, Rahul Shukla, T Suman (transferred to Pune Warriors), Davy Jacobs, Richard Levi, Clint McKay, Sujit Nayak, Thisara Perera, Jaydev Shah
Pune Warriors
The Pune team needs players but they don’t have much left in the bank. Yuvraj Singh’s comeback should inspire the team to an extent but without a few quality signings, they might not go too far.
Current Indian players: 21, slots left: 1
Current overseas players: 8, slots left: 3
Salary cap spent: $9.2 mn, salary cap remaining: $3.3 mn
Squad: Robin Uthappa, Ashish Nehra, Murali Kartik, Rahul Sharma, Ashok Dinda, Manish Pandey, Yuvraj Singh, Raiphi Gomez, Mithun Manhas, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ali Murtaza, Harpreet Singh, Anustup Mazumdar, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Mahesh Rawat, Shrikant Wagh, Dheeraj Jadhav, Eklavya Dwivedi, Ishwar Pandey, T Suman, Udit Birla, Angelo Mathews, Alfonso Thomas, Wayne Parnell, Marlon Samuels, Luke Wright, Mitchell Marsh, Steven Smith, Tamim Iqbal.
New Signings: Ishwar Pandey, T Suman, Udit Birla, Steven Smith (re-signed), Tamim Iqbal (re-signed)
Released: Sourav Ganguly, Michael Clarke, Callum Ferguson, Kamran Khan, Harshad Khadiwale, Nathan McCullum, Mohnish Mishra, Sachin Rana, Jesse Ryder, Graeme Smith, Steven Smith, Tamim Iqbal, James Hopes.
Rajasthan Royals
They will be looking to replicate their lost glory. The Rajasthan side has always been a threat to the others but has not lived up to their potential. May be this IPL, they can add the likes of Ponting or a Clarke to their arsenal.
Current Indian players: 11, slots left: 11
Current overseas players: 7, slots left: 4
Salary cap spent: $4.8 mn, salary cap remaining: $7.7 mn
Squad: Rahul Dravid, S Sreesanth, Ajinkya Rahane, Ashok Menaria, Stuart Binny, Siddharth Trivedi, Ankeet Chavan, Shreevats Goswami, Ajit Chandila, Harmeet Singh, Dishant Yagnik, Shane Watson, Shaun Tait, Brad Hodge, Brad Hogg, Kevon Cooper, Owais Shah, Samuel Badree.
New Signing: Samuel Badree, Harmeet Singh, Dishant Yagnik (re-signed), Owais Shah (re-signed)
Released: Johan Botha, Deepak Chahar, Dinesh Chandimal, Aakash Chopra, Paul Collingwood, Aditya Dole, Samad Fallah, Faiz Fazal, Sumit Narwal, Pankaj Singh, Amit Paunikar, Abhishek Raut, Owais Shah, Pinal Shah, Amit Singh, Dishant Yagnik.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
The underachievers for sure. The Bangalore franchise has a great squad and doesn’t need to add much artillery but their problem has been firing at the right time.
Current Indian players: 18, slots left: 4
Current overseas players: 6, slots left: 5
Salary cap spent: $10 mn, salary cap remaining: $2.5 mn
Squad: Vinay Kumar, Arun Karthik, Karun Nair, Sreenath Aravind, Mayank Agarwal, Vijay Zol, Abhimanyu Mithun, KP Appanna, Virat Kohli, Harshal Patel, Syed Mohammad, Cheteshwar Pujara, Zaheer Khan, Saurabh Tiwary, Abhinav Mukund, Sandeep Warrior, Sunny Sohal, P Parameswaran, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Muttiah Muralitharan, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Daniel Vettori, Andrew McDonald.
New Signings: Abhinav Mukund, Sandeep Warrior, Sunny Sohal, P Parameswaran (re-signed).
Released: Raju Bhatkal, CM Gautam, Mohammad Kaif, Abrar Kazi, Charl Langeveldt, Dirk Nannes, Ryan Ninan, Prashanth Parameswaran, Asad Pathan, Luke Pomersbach, Rilee Rossouw, S Thiagarajan.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
The renamed Hyderabad side has been all over the news. They will be looking to score big in this auction and add some muscle to the team.
Current Indian players: 14, slots left: 8
Current overseas players: 6, slots left: 5
Salary cap spent: $5.5 mn, salary cap remaining: $7 mn
Squad: Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Akash Bhandari, Akshath Reddy, Amit Mishra, Anand Rajan, Ankit Sharma, Ashish Reddy, Bharat Chipli, Biplab Samantray, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Ishant Sharma, Parthiv Patel, Shikhar Dhawan, Veer Pratap Singh, Cameron White, Chris Lynn, Dale Steyn, JP Duminy, Rusty Theron, Kumar Sangakkara.
Released (who were in Deccan Chargers): T Atchuta Rao, Darren Bravo, Daniel Christian, Kedar Devdhar, Manpreet Gony, Daniel Harris, Ishank Jaggi, Tanmay Mishra, Syed Quadri, Sneha Kishore, Sunny Sohal, Tanmay Srivastava, Arjun Yadav.