With the 12th edition of the Indian Premier League making its debut soon, people are all set to cheer their favorite team with their punchlines. Be it Chennai Super Kings’ “Whistle Podu” or “Halla Bol” from Rajasthan Royals, all the teams are ready with their own set of slang to scream their victory.
On a further note, the recent announcement from the controlling board of cricket in Australia, “Cricket Australia,” made it clear that the confirmed players of the 15 player squad for World Cup 2019 will not be participating in the final weeks of the tournament. The absence of the Aussies from the final weeks of the game, it might become a major setback for the top franchises. Well, to be prepared for the upcoming, the top franchises have made a lot of changes to their squads by retaining, releasing & trading various players. Let’s have a look at the final squads for top franchises for IPL 2019.
2019 IPL SQUADS SO FAR
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Team Name
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Players Retained
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New Additions
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Players Released
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Chennai Super Kings
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- MS Dhoni,
- Suresh Raina
- Faf du Plessis
- M Vijay
- Shane Watson
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Mitchell Santner
- David Willey
- Dwayne Bravo
- Kedar Jadhav
- Ambati Rayudu
- Sam Billings
- Harbhajan Singh
- Deepak Chahar
- KM Asif
- Lungi Ngidi
- Imran Tahir
- Karn Sharma
- Dhruv Shorey
- N Jagadeesan
- Shardul Thakur
- Monu Kumar
- Chaitanya Bishnoi
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None
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- Mark Wood
- Kanishk Seth
- Kshitiz Sharma
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Mumbai Indians
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- Rohit Sharma
- Hardik Pandya
- Jasprit Bumrah
- Krunal Pandya
- Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav
- Mayank Markande
- Rahul Chahar
- Anukul Roy
- Siddhesh Lad
- Aditya Tare
- Evin Lewis
- Kieron Pollard
- Ben Cutting
- Mitchell McClenaghan
- Adam Milne
- Jason Behrendorff
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Quinton de Kock
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- Mustafizur Rahman
- Pat Cummins
- Akila Dananjaya
- JP Duminy
- Saurabh Tiwary
- Tajinder Singh
- Mohsin Khan
- Pradeep Sangwan
- MD Nidheesh
- Sharad Lumba
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Kolkata Knight Riders
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- Dinesh Karthik
- Robin Uthappa
- Chris Lynn
- Shubman Gill
- Nitish Rana
- Rinku Singh
- Andre Russell
- Sunil Narine
- Shivam Mavi
- Kuldeep Yadav
- Piyush Chawla
- Kamlesh Nagarkoti
- Prasidh Krishna
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None
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- Mitchell Starc
- Mitchell Johnson
- Tom Curran
- Cameron Delport
- Javon Searles
- Ishank Jaggi
- Apoorv Wankhade
- Vinay Kumar
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Royal Challengers Bangalore
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- Virat Kohli
- AB de Villiers
- Parthiv Patel
- Washington Sundar
- Pawan Negi
- Moeen Ali
- Colin de Grandhomme
- Yuzvendra Chahal
- Mohammed Siraj
- Tim Southee
- Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya, Nathan Coulter-Nile
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Marcus Stoinis
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- Quinton de Kock
- Mandeep Singh
- Brendon McCullum
- Chris Woakes
- Corey Anderson
- Sarfraz Khan
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Rajasthan Royals
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- Steven Smith
- Ben Stokes
- Jos Buttler
- Jofra Archer
- Ish Sodhi
- Ajinkya Rahane
- K Gowtham
- Sanju Samson
- Shreyas Gopal
- Aryaman Birla
- S Midhun
- Prashant Chopra
- Stuart Binny
- Rahul Tripathi
- Dhawal Kulkarni
- Mahipal Lomror
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None
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- Jaydev Unadkat
- Anureet Singh
- Ankit Sharma
- Jatin Saxena
- D'Arcy Short
- Ben Laughlin
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Sunrisers Hyderabad
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- David Warner
- Yusuf Pathan
- Rashid Khan
- Shakib Al Hasan
- Billy Stanlake
- Kane Williamson
- Mohammad Nabi
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar
- Manish Pandey
- T Natarajan
- Ricky Bhui
- Sandeep Sharma
- Shreevats Goswami
- Siddarth Kaul
- Khaleel Ahmed
- Basil Thampi
- Deepak Hooda
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- Vijay Shankar
- Abhishek Sharma
- Shahbaz Nadeem
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- Shikhar Dhawan
- Sachin Baby
- Tanmay Agarwal
- Wriddhiman Saha
- Chris Jordan
- Carlos Brathwaite
- Alex Hales
- Bipul Sharma
- Syed Mehdi Hasan
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Delhi Daredevils
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- Shreyas Iyer
- Prithvi Shaw
- Rishabh Pant
- Manjot Kalra
- Colin Munro
- Chris Morris
- Jayant Yadav
- Rahul Tewatia
- Harshal Patel
- Amit Mishra
- Kagiso Rabada
- Trent Boult
- Sandeep Lamichhane
- Avesh Khan
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Shikhar Dhawan
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- Gautam Gambhir
- Jason Roy
- Gurkeerat Mann
- Glenn Maxwell
- Mohammad Shami
- Dan Christian
- Vijay Shankar
- Abhishek Sharma
- Shahbaz Nadeem
- Sayan Ghosh
- Liam Plunkett
- Junior Dala
- Naman Ojha
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Kings XI Punjab
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- Chris Gayle
- David Miller
- Karun Nair
- Mayank Agarwal
- KL Rahul
- R Ashwin
- Ankit Rajpoot
- Andrew Tye
- Mujeeb ur Rahman
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Mandeep Singh
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- Marcus Stoinis
- Axar Patel
- Aaron Finch
- Mohit Sharma
- Barinder Sran
- Yuvraj Singh
- Ben Dwarshuis
- Manoj Tiwary
- Akshdeep Nath
- Pardeep Sahu
- Mayank Dagar
- Manzoor Dar
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For the time being, the final list of players is as mentioned above. For the players who were released by their respective franchises but not picked by other franchises via the trade window, the players will become a part of the IPL Player Auctions slated to be held in December. Let see what all we will get see in the upcoming season of the T20 game, till then stay tuned for more sports stuff.
