Full list of players retained and released by the teams ahead of IPL Auction 2017

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Kohli almost single-handedly won RCB the IPL last year but will be hoping for more support in 2017

While no team has retained more players than Royal Challengers Bangalore, only one team has released more than them as well. While RCB have kept hold of the majority of their squad that got them to the IPL final, they also let go of a few they didn’t think fit in as well.

Chief among those was Chris Jordan, whose ability to pick up wickets was overshadowed by the runs he gave away and thus he was gone, along with three other international pace bowling options in David Wiese, Kane Richardson, and Varun Aaron. With Mitchell Starc set to play this year, it is unlikely that they will need to spend big on pacers but if there’s any department that they need to improve, it is their bowling.

Players Retained: Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Shane Watson, Mitchell Starc, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Sarfaraz Khan, Sreenath Arvind, Kedar Jadhav, Stuart Binny,Samuel Badree, Travis Head, Sachin Baby, Iqbal Abdullah, KL Rahul, Avesh Khan, Tabraiz Shamsi.

Released players: Chris Jordan, Abu Nechim, David Wiese, Kane Richardson, V Malik, P Dubey, Akshay Karnewar, Vikas Tokas, Parveez Rasool, Varun Aaron.

Purse spent: INR 53.17 crore

Purse remaining: INR 12.82 crore