The new edition of Indian Premier League is around the corner and the auction for the same is set to begin after a few hours. Yes! The highly awaited IPL 2021 auction is finally here and the event has been scheduled to take place on 18th February 2021, Thursday. The fans those are waiting for this event for quite long, your wait here is now finally over. The IPL 2021 auction event is planned to be held in Chennai on Thursday, starting at 3 PM IST.
IPL 2021 Auction Live Streaming
As of now, there are combined 61 number of slots are left with all eight franchises. This time, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has listed a total number of 292 players to go under the hammer this time for the IPL 2021 auction event. The BCCI has also informed all the teams that this year in this upcoming auction, the teams have to use 75 per cent of their purse value. Around 1114 players had listed themselves for this year’s auction, but then later on the list has been cut down to under 300.
This year, the Kings XI Punjab have altered their name to Punjab Kings and the franchise are looking forward to making many changes particularly with lots of players to have a fresh start. It is to be noted that the IPL 2021 auction is not going to be a mega-auction; however, the mega auction has been scheduled to only taking place for the forthcoming IPL edition in the year 2022.
IPL 2021 Auction: Teams List & Pre-Auction Squad
As of now, there is total number of 8 teams that are going to take part in this upcoming season of the competition. These are:
Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
Purse Remaining: 19.9 Crores
Retained Players: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Josh Hazlewood, KM Asif, Imran Tahir, N Jagadeesan, Ravindra Jadeja, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shardul Thakur, Sam Curran, Karn Sharma, Mitchell Santner, R Sai Kishore, Lungi Ngidi, Deepak Chahar, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis
Released Players: Shane Watson, Harbhajan Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Murali Vijay, Piyush Chawla, Monu Singh
Delhi Capitals (DC)
Purse Remaining: 13.4 Crores
Retained Players: Shreyas Iyer, Shikhar Dhawan, Shimron Hetmyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Anrich Nortje, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Axar Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Prithvi Shaw, Marcus Stoinis, Pravin Dubey, Harshal Patel, Ishant Sharma, Chris Woakes, R Ashwin, Rishabh Pant, Lalit Yadav, Daniel Sams
Released Players: Alex Carey, Keemo Paul, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Lamichhane, Mohit Sharma, Jason Roy
Kings XI Punjab (KXIP)
Purse Remaining: 53.2 Crores
Retained Players: KL Rahul, Arshdeep Singh, Nicholas Pooran, Sarfaraz Khan, Chris Gayle, Harpreet Brar, Mohd. Shami, Mandeep Singh, Mayank Agarwal, M Ashwin, Ishan Porel, Ravi Bishnoi, Chris Jordan, Prabhsimran Singh, Darshan Nalkande, Deepak Hooda
Released Players: Sheldon Cottrell, Jagadeesha Suchith, James Neesham, Glenn Maxwell, Mujeeb Zadran, Krishnappa Gowtham, Hardus Viljoen, Karun Nair, Tejinder Singh Dhillon
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
Purse Remaining: 10.75 Crores
Retained Players: Nitish Rana, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, Sandeep Warrier, Sunil Narine, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Rinku Singh, Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy, Tim Seifert, Eoin Morgan, Dinesh Karthik, Lockie Ferguson
Released Players: Nikhil Naik, Siddhesh Lad, Harry Gurney, Chris Green, M Siddharth, Tom Banton
Mumbai Indians (MI)
Purse Remaining: 15.35 Crores
Retained Players: Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Jayant Yadav, Aditya Tare, Anmolpreet Singh, Anukul Roy, Dhawal Kulkarni, Hardik Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Quinton de Kock, Rahul Chahar, Suryakumar Yadav, Saurabh Tiwary, Mohsin Khan, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Trent Boult, Chris Lynn
Released Players: James Pattinson, Sherfane Rutherford, Prince Balwant Rai, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Mitchell McCleneghan, Digvijay Deshmukh, Lasith Malinga
Rajasthan Royals (RR)
Purse Remaining: 37.85 Crores
Retained Players: Ben Stokes, Sanju Samson, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Anuj Rawat, Mahipal Lomror, Manan Vohra, Mayank Markande, Shreyas Gopal, Jaydev Unadkat, Andrew Tye, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Kartik Tyagi, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Riyan Parag, Robin Uthappa
Released Players: Steve Smith, Anirudha Joshi, Shashank Singh, Akash Singh, Ankit Rajpoot, Tom Curran, Varun Aaron, Oshane Thomas
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
Purse Remaining: 35.4 Crores
Retained Players: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Navdeep Saini, Shahbaz Ahmed, Joshua Phillipe, Adam Zampa, Devdutt Padikkal, Md. Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal, Pavan Deshpande, Kane Richardson, Washington Sundar
Released Players: Shivam Dube, Aaron Finch, Moeen Ali, Parthiv Patel, Umesh Yadav, Chris Morris, Pawan Negi, Isuru Udana, Gurkeerat Mann, Dale Steyn
SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH)
Purse Remaining: 10.75 Crores
Retained Players: Jason Holder, Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, Sandeep Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jonny Bairstow, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha, Mohammad Nabi, T Natarajan, Virat Singh, Priyam Garg, Mitchell Marsh, David Warner, Rashid Khan, Khaleel Ahmed
Released Players: Billy Stanlake, Sanjay Yadav, Sandeep Bavanaka, Prithviraj Yarra, Fabian Allen,
Date And Time for IPL 14 Auction (2021)
According to Indian Standard Timing, the IPL 14 Auction is going to take place on 18th February 2021, Thursday. Here is the timing for the same, based on different time standards:
- In India, the Auction will begin at 3:00 PM IST
- In Australia, the Auction will begin at 20:30 AEDT (08:30 PM IST)
- In New Zealand, the Auction will begin at 22:30 NZDT (10:30 PM IST)
- In the United States (USA), the Auction will begin at 04:30 AM EST
This is going to be the 14th edition of one of the most admired cricket tournament series in India as well as across the world. However, the official date to start this season of the IPL is not confirmed yet, but it will be announce any time soon. The new season of the league is going to be very interesting as Mumbai Indians are the two times defending champions, getting the back-to-back win in the 2019 and 2020 edition of the league. It will be interesting to watch whether Mumbai Indians will follow their winning streak in this season as well or another team will over them this time.
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