Mumbai Indians And Chennai Super Kings Release 12 And 5 Players Respectively

Mumbai Indians released 12 players from its squad but retained its core squad of 18 players that won a record fourth Indian Premier League (IPL) title this year. The three traded-ins in form of New Zealand seamer Trent Boult, Sherfane Rutherford of West Indies and Dhawal Kulkarni from Rajasthan Royals are in the core squad.

List of retained players:

Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya
JaspritBumrah
Krunal Pandya
Ishan Kishan
Surya Kumar Yadav
Rahul Chahar
Anmolpreet Singh
Jayant Yadav
Aditya Tare
Anukul Roy
Dhawal Kulkarni (Traded in)
Quinton de Kock
Kieron Pollard
Sherfane Rutherford (Traded in)
Lasith Malinga, Mitchell McClenaghan
Trent Boult (Traded in)

List of released players:

Evin Lewis, Adam Milne
Jason Behrendorff
Beuran Hendricks
Ben Cutting
Yuvraj Singh
Mayank Markande (Traded out)
BarinderSran
Rasikh Salam
Pankaj Jaswal
Siddhesh Lad (Traded out)
Alzarri Joseph

Mumbai Indians looking for more players

The 2020 edition of IPL will be held in Kolkata in December. But Mumbai Indians is far from prepared for the tournament. It requires 5 domestic and 2 foreign players to complete its squad.

Chennai Super Kings rejigged its squad

The three-time IPL champion also felt the need for restructuring of its squad. But it released only five players and retained rest of the squad. It is to be noted that MS Dhoni is captain of this team.

List of retained players:

MS Dhoni (captain & WK)
Suresh Raina
Ambati Rayudu
Shane Watson
Faf du Plessis
Murali Vijay
Kedar Jadhav
Ravindra Jadeja
Rituraj Gaikwad
Dwayne Bravo
Karn Sharma
Imran Tahir
Harbhajan Singh
Mitchell Santner
Shardul Thakur
K M Asif
David Willey
Deepak Chahar
N Jagadeesan (WK)

List of released players:

Mohit Sharma
Sam Billings
David Willey
Dhruv Shorey
Chaitanya Bishnoi

IPL 2020

This bigger event is scheduled to be held in December in Kolkata but teams have a little more than a year for restructuring. Mumbai Indians have done the biggest restructuring by releasing two-dozen players in one shot.

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