IPL Auction 2019: Live Transfer Updates

Follow all the live updates on trade deadline day.

RCB retain 14, release 10

The Royal Challengers Bangalore have been plagued with a lot of issues over the last two seasons. They have decided to release 10 players, including the likes of Brendon McCullum and Sarfaraz Khan.

Here's the list of players retained and released:
Retained: Virat Kohli (c), Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya, Parthiv Patel, Pawan Negi, Umesh Yadav, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, AB de Villiers, Colin de Grandhomme, Moeen Ali, Tim Southee, Nathan Coulter-Nile

Released: Brendon McCullum, Chris Woakes, Corey Anderson, Sarfaraz Khan, Murugan Ashwin, Manan Vohra, Aniket Choudhary, Anirudha Joshi, Pavan Deshpande

Traded: Marcus Stoinis for Mandeep Singh

KXIP release Yuvraj Singh, 10 others

RETAINED: Lokesh Rahul, Chris Gayle, Andrew Tye, Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Rajpoot, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Karun Nair, David Miller and Ravichandran Ashwin

RELEASED: Aaron Finch, Axar Patel, Mohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Barinder Sran, Ben Dwarshuis, Manoj Tiwary, Akshdeep Nath, Pardeep Sahu, Mayank Dagar and Manzoor Dar

TRADED: Marcus Stoinis for Mandeep Singh

SRH release 9 players

The Sunrisers Hyderabad have released nine players (including the traded Shikhar Dhawan) ahead of the 2019 IPL auctions.

Retained Players: Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Hooda, Manish Pandey, Natarajan, Ricky Bhui, Sandeep Sharma, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Yusuf Pathan, Billy Stanlake, David Warner, Kane Williamson, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan and Shakib Al-Hasan.

Released players: Sachin Baby, Tanmay Agarwal, Wriddhiman Saha, Chris Jordan, Carlos Brathwaite, Alex Hales, Bipul Sharma, Syed Mehdi Hasan and Shikhar Dhawan.

Mumbai Indians release JP Duminy, Pat Cummins

Ahead of IPL 2019, Mumbai Indians announced that they have released JP Duminy and Pat Cummins along with eight other players. They have retained 18 players including captain Rohit Sharma, the Pandya brothers, Jasprit Bumrah and the core of the side from last season.

Mustafizur Rahman, Akila Dananjaya were the other major casualties along with the experienced Saurabh Tiwary and Pradeep Sangwan. The list of 10 released players includes one capped, five uncapped and four international players.

They have decided to retain Windies all-rounder Kieron Pollard and Australian pacer Jason Behrendorff, who is just returning from injury.

Released players: Saurabh Tiwary, Pradeep Sangwan, Mohsin Khan, MD Nidheesh, Sharad Lumba, Tajinder Singh Dhillon, JP Duminy, Pat Cummins, Mustafizur Rahman, Akila Dananjaya.

Retained players: Rohit Sharma (C), Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Mayank Markande, Rahul Chahar, Anukul Roy, Siddhesh Lad, Aditya Tare, Quinton de Kock, Kieron Pollard, Ben Cutting, Mitchell McClenaghan, Adam Milne, Jason Behrendorff.

It has been a pretty slow day so far as the teams look to ensure that they have the right combinations in place ahead of the Auction that will take place in January 2019.

Manish Pandey, Ben Stokes, Jaydev Unadkat to be released?

Big-money signings from IPL 2018 Manish Pandey, Ben Stokes and Jaydev Unadkat could all be released from their respective franchises. According to reports, SRH are imploring life after Pandey, could managed a total of 284 runs in IPL 2018 after he was bought for 11 crores.

Rajasthan Royals are also considering the possibility of not having the duo of Stokes and Unadkat. While the former is expected to miss the latter stages of IPL 2019, the latter hasn't quite lived up to the hype.

Will Australia's strict guidelines impact players being picked for IPL 2019?

Already Mitchell Starc has been released and Glenn Maxwell is also reportedly set to be released. That might just be the result of Cricket Australia's strict guidelines ahead of World Cup 2019.

"It is a difficult period with the IPL being brought forward to accommodate the Cricket World Cup, and overlapping our domestic season," Clark said in a statement Thursday. "We will, as always, assess applications on a case-by-case basis but it is important the players understand our position in advance, so they have the clarity they need to make personal decisions," said Cricket Australia's interim team performance manager Belinda Clark.

Arguably the biggest move so far is Shikhar Dhawan going back to his hometown to play for the Daredevils once again. Sunrisers Hyderabad traded the Indian opener to the Daredevils in exchange for Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem and Abhishek Sharma.

Another interesting development ahead of trade deadline day was KKR's decision to release Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc. That might also be down to the fact Australia's World Cup bound players will not be available for the final few weeks of IPL 2019.

ICYMI: Chennai Super Kings released three players from their victorious IPL 2018 campaign. England pacer Mark Wood and the uncapped duo of Kshitiz Sharma and Kanishk Seth were released.

It may only be November but it is time for the IPL to dominate the headlines once again. The last day of the IPL trade window is here and stay tuned for all the live updates.