IPL Players Retained for The Season Seven

Indian Premier League (IPL) franchisees have announced the retaining players on the last day of the deadline. The retention of the players has always been controversial from the beginning. This time IPL franchisees are hit by the market for the worldwide recession trend and fall of the rupee against American dollar to make the rich more richer and the poor more poorer.

Surprisingly the small budget team in the league, Rajasthan Royals (RR) filled their quota of five players by retaining five players. RR kept Australians Shame Watson and James Faulkner along with Indian batsman Ajinkya Rahane and two more uncapped players Sanju Samson and Stuart Binny.
The Delhi Daredevils (DD) shocked everyone by splashing all the members of the team. They didn’t retain any player from their last season. There were talks before the announcement about retaining Virender Sehwag, David Warner and Kevin Petersen, but Delhi Franchise GMR decided to clean the board and pick the new team.
Two times IPL winner Chennai Superkings (CSK) perfectly utilized retention policy along with Mumbai Indians (MI). CSK retained their five of their key players which includes MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo. They fully used the retention policy to keep their most successful players from the previous seasons.

While on the other side, defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) also retained their good players Rohit Sharma, Lasith Malinga and Keiron Pollard along with out of Indian Team spinner Harbhajan Singh and batsman Ambati Rayudu and left Australian paces Mitchell Johnson.
IPL 5 champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) kept skipper Gautam Gambhir and Caribbean spinner Sunil Narine. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) retained three of their most successful players Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers.
SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) retained just two of their key players Shikhar Dhawan and Dale Steyn and opened doors for the new players. Kings XI Punjab kept two players South African David Miller and uncapped Indian batsman Manan Vohra.
Total of 24 players were retained by seven teams at a total cost of Rs 205.5 crore, according to BCCI. It is cleared that this year’s IPL auction will be in Indian rupees rather than dollars. There is also no clearance over the inclusion of Pakistan cricketers in the auction.