123 players have been retained and 5 players traded across teams for IPL 2015
Total 123 players including 79 Indian players and 44 Overseas players were retained and 5 players across teams has been traded during the window by the IPL franchises for the 2015 Pepsi IPL season.
IPL trading window season for 2015 edition has been closed on Dec 15, 2014. During window season, IPL franchises had right to extend the player contracts on existing terms or released the players for Pepsi IPL season 2015. At the end of trading window season, IPL 2015 franchises have retained their best and promising players to continued playing in IPL season 2015 and released few players from their respective squad. Released players will have an opportunity to put their names up for the player auction for the 2015 season.
IPL 2015 teams have a total salary cap of Rs 63 Crores for the 2015 season (5% increase over the 2014 season purse). The salaries of the players retained will be deducted from this amount.
Details of the retained and released players by IPL franchises for 2015 season:
Chennai (Retained 17 Players)
MS Dhoni, Ashish Nehra, Baba Aparajith, Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Bravo, Dwayne Smith, Faf du Plessis, Ishwar Chandra Pandey, Matt Henry, Mithun Manhas, Mohit Sharma, Pawan Negi, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Samuel Badree, Suresh Raina, Ronit More.
Chennai (Released 4 Players)
Ben Hilfenhaus, John Hastings, Vijay Shankar, David Hussey.
Dinesh Karthik, HS Sharath, James Neesham, Jaydev Unadkat, Kevin Pietersen, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Milind Kumar, Murali Vijay, Rahul Sharma, Rahul Shukla, Ross Taylor, Siddarth Kaul, Wayne Parnell.
Kolkata (Retained 16 Players)
Gautam Gambhir, Andre Russell, Chris Lynn, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Morne Morkel, Patrick Cummins, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Ryan ten Doeschate, Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Veer Pratap Singh, Yusuf Pathan.
Kolkata (Released 3 Players)
Debabrata Das, Sayan Sekhar Mandal, Jacques Kallis.
