In all, 63 cricketers, of which 28 are overseas players, have been released by the eight IPL franchises for the 2017 season, the BCCI confirmed in a release on Monday.
The board also confirmed that 140 players, including 44 overseas cricketers, have been retained.
The deadline for franchises to announce their squads and who they were offloading ahead of IPL 10 was December 16.
Rising Pune Supergiants
Retained Players:
M S Dhoni, Ajinkya Rahane, R Ashwin, Steven Smith, Faf Du Plessis, Mitchell Marsh, Ashok Dinda, Ankush Bains, Rajat Bhatia, Ankit Sharma, Ishwar Pandey, Adam Zampa, Jaskaran Singh, Baba Aparajith, Deepak Chahar, Usman Khwaja.
Released Players:
Kevin Pietersen, Ishant Sharma, Irfan Pathan, Thisara Perera, Rudra Pratap Singh, Scott Boland, M. Ashwin, Peter Handscomb, Saurabh Tiwary, Albie Morkel, George Bailey.
Gujarat Lions
Retained Players:
Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, James Faulkner, Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Bravo, Aaron Finch, Dwayne Smith, Dinesh Karthik, Dhawal Kulkarni, Praveen Kumar, Andrew Tye, Ishan Kishan, Pradeep Sangwan, Shivil Kaushik, Shadab Jakati, Jaydev Shah.
Released Players:
Dale Steyn, Paras Dogra, Eklavya Dwivedi, Sarbjeet Ladda, Pravin Tambe, Umang Sharma, Amit Mishra, Aksh Deep Nath.
Kings XI Punjab
Retained Players:
David Miller, Manan Vohra, Akshar Rajesh Patel, Glenn Maxwell, Gurkeerat Mann Singh, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Shardul Narendra Thakur, Shaun Marsh, Wriddhiman Saha, Murali Vijay, Nikhil Shankar Naik, Mohit Sharma, Marcus Stoinis, K.C. Cariappa, Armaan Jaffer, Armaan Jaffer, Pardeep Sahu, Swapnil Singh, Hashim Amla.
Released Players:
Mitchell Johnson, Rishi Dhawan, Kyle Abbott, Farhaan Behardien.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Retained Players:
Gautam Gambhir, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Kuldeep Singh Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Shakib Al Hasan, Chris Lynn, Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Sheldon Jackson, Ankit Singh Rajpoot.
Released Players:
Morne Morkel, Brad Hogg, Jason Holder, Colin Munro, John Hastings, Jaydev Unadkat, Rajagopal Sathish, Manan Sharma, Shaun Tait.
Mumbai Indians
Retained Players:
Rohit Sharma, Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Harbhajan Singh, Ambati Rayudu, Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Gopal, Lendl Simmons, Ranganath Vinay Kumar, Parthiv Patel, Mitchell McClenaghan, Nitish Rana, Siddhesh Dinesh Lad, J Suchith, Hardik Pandya, Jos Buttler, Tim Southee, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Deepak Punia.
Released Players:
Corey Anderson, Marchant De Lange, Unmukt Chand, Akshay Wakhare, Nathu Singh, Kishore Pramod Kamath, Martin Guptill, Jerome Taylor.
Delhi Daredevils
Retained Players:
Jean-Paul Duminy, Mohammad Shami, Quinton de Kock, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mayank Agarwal, Jayant Yadav, Amit Mishra, Shreyas Iyer, Zaheer Khan, Sam Billings, Sanju Samson, Christopher Morris, Carlos Brathwaite, Karun Nair, Rishabh Pant, C.V. Milind, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Pratyush Singh.
Released Players:
Nathan Coulter-Nile, Imran Tahir, Joel Paris, Pawan Negi, Pawan Suyal, Akhil Arvind Herwadkar, Mahipal Lomror.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Retained Players:
Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Mitchell Starc, Yuzvendra Singh Chahal, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Hardev Singh, Adam Milne, Sarfaraz Naushad Khan, Sreenath Arvind, Kedar Jadhav, Shane Watson, Stuart Binny, Samuel Badree, Travis Head, Sachin Baby, Iqbal Abdullah, KL Rahul, Avesh Khan, Tabraiz Shamsi.
Released Players:
Varun Aaron, Abu Nechim Ahmed, David Wiese, Kane Richardson, Vikramjeet Malik, Praveen Dubey, Akshay Karnewar, Vikas Tokas, Parveez Rasool, Chris Jordan.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Retained Players:
Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, David Warner, Moises Henriques, Naman Ojha, Ricky Bhui, Kane Williamson, Siddarth Kaul, Bipul Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh, Ben Cutting, Abhimanyu Mithun, Mustafizur Rahman, Barinder Singh Sran, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar.
Released Players:
Karn Sharma, Ashish Reddy, Eoin Morgan, Trent Boult, Tirumalasetti Suman, Aditya Tare.
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