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The timeline for the eight IPL franchises to retain and release players for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 season ended on Wednesday.   A total 139 players were retained by the 8

franchises whereas 57 players were released from their existing squads.    Ready for a challenge? Click here to take our quiz and show off your knowledge! EIGHT FRANCHISES RETAINED AND

RELEASED THE FOLLOWING PLAYERS FROM THEIR SQUAD:  CHENNAI SUPER KINGS  RETAINED PLAYERS: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, KM Asif, Deepak Chahar, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Imran

Tahir, N Jagadeesan, Karn Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shardul Thakur, Sam Curran, Josh Hazlewood, R Sai Kishore  Ready for a challenge? Click

here to take our quiz and show off your knowledge! RELEASED PLAYERS: Kedar Jadhav, Murali Vijay, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla, Monu Singh, Shane Watson  DELHI CAPITALS  RETAINED PLAYERS: 

Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Prithvi Shaw, R Ashwin, Rishabh Pant, Shikhar Dhawan, Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus 

Stoinis, Lalit Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Daniel Sams, Pravin Dubey, Chris Woakes  RELEASED PLAYERS: Alex Carey, Keemo Paul, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Lamichhane, Mohit Sharma, Jason Roy  KINGS

XI PUNJAB  RETAINED PLAYERS: KL Rahul, Arshdeep Singh, Chris Gayle, Darshan Nalkande, Harpreet Brar, Mandeep Singh, Mayank Agarwal, Mohd. Shami, M Ashwin, Nicholas Pooran, Sarfaraz Khan,

Deepak Hooda, Ishan Porel, Ravi Bishnoi, Chris Jordan, Prabhsimran Singh  RELEASED PLAYERS: Glenn Maxwell, Sheldon Cottrell, Mujeeb Zadran, Hardus Viljoen, James Neesham, Krishnappa Gowtham,

Karun Nair, Jagadeesha Suchith, Tejinder Singh Dhillon  KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS  RETAINED PLAYERS: Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie

Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Rinku Singh, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy, Tim Seifert  RELEASED PLAYERS:

 Chris Green, Harry Gurney, M Siddharth, Nikhil Naik, Siddhesh Lad, Tom Banton  MUMBAI INDIANS  RETAINED PLAYERS: Rohit Sharma, Aditya Tare, Anmolpreet Singh, Anukul Roy, Dhawal Kulkarni,

Hardik Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Jasprit Bumrah, Jayant Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Quinton de Kock, Rahul Chahar, Suryakumar Yadav, Trent Boult, Chris Lynn, Saurabh Tiwary, Mohsin

Khan  RELEASED PLAYERS: Prince Balwant Rai, Digvijay Deshmukh, Lasith Malinga, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Pattinson, Sherfane Rutherford, Mitchell McCleneghan  RAJASTHAN ROYALS  RETAINED

PLAYERS: Sanju Samson, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Mahipal Lomror, Manan Vohra, Mayank Markande, Rahul Tewatia, Riyan Parag, Shreyas Gopal, Robin Uthappa, Jaydev Unadkat, Yashasvi

Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, Kartik Tyagi, David Miller, Andrew Tye  RELEASED PLAYERS: Steve Smith, Akash Singh, Anirudha Joshi, Ankit Rajpoot, Oshane Thomas, Shashank Singh, Tom Curran, Varun

Aaron  ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE  RETAINED PLAYERS: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Devdutt Padikkal, Md. Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Joshua Phillipe, Pavan

Deshpande, Shahbaz Ahmed, Adam Zampa, Kane Richardson  RELEASED PLAYERS: Chris Morris, Shivam Dube, Aaron Finch, Umesh Yadav, Dale Steyn, Moeen Ali, Parthiv Patel, Pawan Negi, Isuru Udana,

Gurkeerat Mann  SUNRISERS HYDERABAD  RETAINED PLAYERS: David Warner, Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid

Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha, Virat Singh, Priyam Garg, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder,

Abdul Samad  RELEASED PLAYERS: Billy Stanlake, Sandeep Bavanaka, Fabian Allen, Sanjay Yadav, Prithviraj Yarra  ALSO READ: DAY 1 OF JOE BIDEN AS US PRESIDENT: ENDS ‘MUSLIM TRAVEL BAN’,

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