A look at the purse available and slots to fill for each franchise ahead of the IPL 2021 Auction

The IPL 2021 auction is scheduled to take place on Thursday (February 18) in Chennai. All the eight teams announced their final list of retained and released players last month and thus they will go into the auction with various requirements to fulfill. Here we’ll take a look at the purse available for each franchise, their list of players retained, and the number of slots they need to fill in the auction.

Mumbai Indians 

Purse: INR 15.35 cr || Slots left: 7 || Overseas slots left: 4

Players Retained:

Top-order batsmen: Rohit Sharma (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Chris Lynn, Saurabh Tiwary, Anmolpreet Singh, Aditya Tare (wk)

Finishers: Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya

All-rounders: Krunal Pandya

Spinners: Rahul Chahar, Anukul Roy, Jayant Yadav

Fast bowlers: Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan

Kings XI Punjab 

Purse: INR 53.20 cr || Slots left: 9 || Overseas slots left: 5

Players Retained:

Top-order batsmen: KL Rahul (c&wk), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Mandeep Singh, Prabsimran Singh

Finishers: Nicholas Pooran (wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda

All-rounders: –

Spinners: Murugan Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Harpreet Brar

Fast-bowlers: Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ishan Porel, Darshan Nalkande, Chris Jordan

Rajasthan Royals 

Purse: INR 37.85 cr || Slots left: 9 || Overseas slots left: 3

Players Retained

Top-order batsmen: Sanju Samson (c&wk), Jos Buttler (wk), Ben Stokes, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Manan Vohra, Anuj Rawat

Finishers: Riyan Parag, David Miller

All-rounders: Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror

Spinners: Shreyas Gopal, Mayank Markande

Fast bowlers: Jofra Archer, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Kartik Tyagi

Chennai Super Kings 

Purse: INR 19.90 cr || Slots left: 6 || Overseas slots left: 1

Players Retained: 

Top-order batsmen: Faf du Plessis, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, N. Jagadeesan (wk), Robin Uthappa

Finishers: MS Dhoni (c&wk), Ravindra Jadeja

All-rounders: Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo

Spinners: Karn Sharma, R. Sai Kishore, Mitchell Santner, Imran Tahir

Fast bowlers: Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Lungi Ngidi, Josh Hazlewood, KM Asif

Kolkata Knight Riders 

Purse: INR 10.75 cr || Slots left: 8 || Overseas slots left: 2

Players Retained:

Top-order batsmen: Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Tim Seifert (wk), Rahul Tripathi, Rinku Singh

Finishers: Dinesh Karthik (wk), Eoin Morgan (c), Andre Russell

All-rounders: Sunil Narine

Spinners: Varun CV, Kuldeep Yadav

Fast bowlers: Pat Cummins, Lockie Ferguson, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Sandeep Warrier, Prasidh Krishna

Sunrisers Hyderabad 

Purse: INR 10.75 cr || Slots left: 3 || Overseas slots left: 1

Players Retained:

Top-order batsmen: David Warner (c), Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Manish Pandey, Sreevats Goswami (wk), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Priyam Garg

Finishers: Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Virat Singh

All-rounders: Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Mohammad Nabi

Spinners: Rashid Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem

Fast bowlers: Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T. Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Siddarth Kaul, Basil Thampi

Royal Challengers Bangalore 

Purse: INR 35.40 cr || Slots left: 11 || Overseas slots left: 3

Players Retained:

Top-order batsmen: Virat Kohli (c), Devdutt Padikkal, Josh Philippe (wk)

Finishers: AB de Villiers (wk), Pavan Deshpande

All-rounders: Washington Sundar, Daniel Sams

Spinners: Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Shahbaz Ahmed

Fast bowlers: Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Kane Richardson, Harshal Patel

Delhi Capitals 

Purse: INR 13.40 cr || Slots left: 8 || Overseas slots left: 3

Players Retained

Top-order batsmen: Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer (c)

Finishers: Rishabh Pant (wk), Shimron Hetmyer

All-rounders: Marcus Stoinis, Chris Woakes

Spinners: R Ashwin, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Lalit Yadav, Pravin Dubey

Fast bowlers: Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Avesh Khan