By: Tarish Bhatt
Just a week after Yuvraj Singh’s career received a massive boost, following his inclusion in India’s T20 squad for the Australia tour, the destructive southpaw has been released by his IPL side Delhi Daredevils.
Yuvraj had a below-par outing in the last season, scoring just two fifties, and in a bid to rebuild the squad from scratch, the Daredevils let go of their most expensive player.
Apart from Yuvraj, Angelo Mathews and Manoj Tiwari are also released by the Daredevils. They now have 36.85 crores to spend in the forthcoming IPL auction on February 6.
Meanwhile, Sunrisers Hyderabad have also shown the door to their speedsters Ishant Sharma and Dale Steyn, while Kevin Pietersen and Ravi Bopara have also been released by the Sunrisers.
Notable players like Kings XI Punjab’s skipper George Bailey, Dinesh Karthik of Royal Challengers Bangalore, Virender Sehwag and Pat Cummins, to name a few, are also released by their respective teams.
Delhi Daredevils: Top players retained: Amit Mishra, Mohammad Shami, Shreyas Iyer, Zaheer Khan, Albie Morkel, Imran Tahir, Jean-Paul Duminy, Quinton de Kock.
Top players released: Yuvraj Singh, Manoj Tiwary, Angelo Mathews.
Kings XI Punjab: Top players retained: Aksar Patel, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Manan Vohra, Murali Vijay, Rishi Dhawan, Sandeep Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Wriddhiman Saha, David Miller, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Johnson, Shaun Marsh.
Top players released: Virender Sehwag, George Bailey, Thisara Perera.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Top players retained: Gautam Gambhir, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Suryakumar Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Andre Russell, Brad Hogg, Morne Morkel, Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine.
Top players released: C Cariappa, Patrick Cummins, Ryan ten Doeschate, Azhar Mahmood, James Neesham.
Mumbai Indians: Top players retained: Ambati Rayudu, Harbhajan Singh, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Parthiv Patel, R Vinay Kumar, Rohit Sharma, Unmukt Chand, Keiron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Lendl Simmons.
Top players released: Aditya Tare, Abhimanyu Mithun, Pragyan Ojha, Aaron Finch, Alex Hales, Ben Hilfenhaus, Josh Hazlewood.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Top players retained: Sarfaraz Khan, Mandeep Singh, Varun Aaron, Virat Kohli, AB de Villers, Chris Gayle, Mitchell Starc.
Top players released: Vijay Zol, Ashok Dinda, Dinesh Karthik, Iqbal Abdullah, Jalaj Saxena, S Badrinath, Manvinder Bisla, Sean Abbott, Darren Sammy.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Top players retained: Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Karn Sharma, KL Rahul, Naman Ojha, Parvez Rasool, Shikhar Dhawan, David Warner, Eoin Morgan, Kane Williamson, Trent Boult.
Top players released: Ishant Sharma, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Praveen Kumar, Dale Steyn, Kevin Pietersen, Ravi Bopara.
