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Yuvraj, Ishant, Steyn off-loaded by IPL franchises

December 31, 2015 19:02 IST

Sunrisers Hyderabad surprised quite a few by opting to release the fast bowling duo of Ishant Sharma and Dale Steyn, while they also let go of England discard Kevin Pietersen.

Yuvraj Singh

IMAGE: Yuvraj Singh during a nets session for Delhi Daredevils during IPL 8. Photograph: BCCI

Yuvraj Singh along with fast bowlers Ishant Sharma and Dale Steyn were among the big names released by their respective Indian Premier League franchises on Thursday before the window to retain players for the ninth season of the T20 tournament in 2016 closed.

As many as 101 cricketers, including 37 overseas, were retained by the eight IPL franchises.

Yuvraj, who was bought for a massive Rs 16 crore by Delhi Daredevils for IPL 8, and Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews were released, but veteran Zaheer Khan, who retired from international cricket earlier this year, was retained.

Yuvraj, who returned to the Indian team for the T20 leg of the Australian tour, failed to live up to expectations last season, aggregating only 248 runs from 14 matches.

"Yuvraj Singh is a great player and the reason of releasing him is to rationalise our budget. He is in good form now and has got back to the Indian team. But there were budgetary constraints which led to the decision. I have personally spoken to Yuvraj. There are no hard feelings," Daredevils CEO Hemant Dua said.

Delhi Daredevils will be going into the February auction with a purse of Rs 36.85 crore to spend on salary of players, the highest among the eight franchises.

Sunrisers Hyderabad surprised quite a few by opting to release the fast bowling duo of Ishant Sharma and Dale Steyn, while they also let go of England discard Kevin Pietersen.

Dinesh Karthik, who was bought for 10.5 crore by Royal Challengers Bangalore, was also released.

For Kings XI Punjab, Virender Sehwag, who retired from international cricket recently, was released along with former captain George Bailey.

Former India spinner Pragyan Ojha, Australian paceman Josh Hazlewood were off-loaded by Mumbai Indians.

In all, Daredevils have released 10 players while Kings XI Punjab and Sunrisers released eight including Sehwag.

RCB released the maximum of 14 players while Mumbai Indians and KKR released 10 players each.

List of players released by the IPL franchises:

Delhi Daredevils

Kings XI Punjab

Player Name

Player Name

Yuvraj Singh

Karanveer Singh

C.M. Gautam

Parvinder Awana

Domnic Joseph Muthuswamy

Shivam Sharma

Jaydev Unadkat

Virender Sehwag

K. K. Jiyaz

Yogesh Golwalkar

Kona Srikar Bharat

Beuran Hendricks

Manoj Tiwary

George Bailey

Angelo Mathews

Thisara Perera

Gurinder Sandhu

 

Marcus Stoinis

 

Kolkata Knight Riders

Mumbai Indians

Veer Pratap Singh

Aditya Tare

Aditya Garhwal

Abhimanyu Mithun

K.C Cariappa

Pawan Suyal

Sumit Narwal

Pragyan Ojha

Vaibhav Rawal

Aiden Blizzard

Patrick Cummins

Aaron Finch

Ryan ten Doeschate

Alex Hales

James Neesham

Ben Hilfenhaus

Azhar Mahmood

Colin Munro

Johan Botha

Josh Hazlewood

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Vijay Zol

Chama Milind

Ashok Dinda

Gade Hanuma Vihari

Dinesh Karthik

Ishant Sharma

Iqbal Abdullah

Laxmi Ratan Shukla

Jalaj Saxena

Prasanth Padmanabhan

Manvinder Bisla

Praveen Kumar

Sandeep Warrier

Dale Steyn

Shishir Bhavane

Kevin Pietersen

Subramaniam Badrinath

Ravi Bopara

Yogesh Takawale

 

Nic Maddinson

 

Darren Sammy

 

Rilee Rossouw

 

Sean Abbott

 

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