IPL-2019 Players Retained & Players Released (Part 2)

Now we will see about the players featuring in the other 4 teams.

Sun Risers Hyderabad

Players Retained:-

Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Hooda, Manish Pandey, T Natarajan, Ricky Bhui, Sandeep Sharma, Siddarth Kaul, Shreevats Goswami, Khaleel Ahmed, Yusuf Pathan, Basil Thampi, Billy Stanlake, David Warner, Kane Williamson, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi, Shakib Al Hasan.
Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem (traded from Delhi)

Players Released:-

Chris Jordan, Carlos Brathwaite, Alex Hales, Bipul Sharma, Sachin Baby, Tanmay Agarwal, Wriddhiman Saha, Mehdi Hasan.

Areas of Concern:-

Wicket keeper they dont have one as of now they will be looking for some one who is a better batsman and as well as a good keeper. Fast bowler All-rounder is also an area of concern as they let go Brathwaite and Jordon.

Remaining Purse:- 9.70Cr 

Royal Challangers Banglore

Players Retained:-

Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Parthiv Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal , Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Moeen Ali, Mohammed Siraj, Colin de Grandhomme, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya. 
Marcus Stoinis (traded from Punjab)

Players Released:-

Brendon McCullum, Corey Anderson, Quinton de Kock, Mandeep Singh, Chris Woakes, Sarfraz Khan. 

Areas of Concern:-

There are in desperate need of a finisher.May be Yuvraj Singh but does he still have it in him.Need a good no 5&6 batsman.

Remaining Purse:- 18.15Cr 

Rajasthan Royals

Players Retained:-

Ajinkya Rahane, Krishnappa Gowtham, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Gopal, Aryaman Birla, S. Midhun, Prashant Chopra, Stuart Binny, Rahul Tripathi, Ben Stokes, Steve Smith, Jos Buttler, Jofra Archer, Ish Sodhi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mahipal Lomror. 

Players Released:-

D'Arcy Short, Ben Laughlin, Heinrich Klaasen, Dane Paterson, Zahir Khan, Dushmantha Chameera, Jaydev Unadkat, Anureet Singh, Ankit Sharma, Jatin Saxena.

Areas of Concern:-

Lack of match winners. If they qualify for semi finals but if Australian & England players are withdrawn due to World cup. Then without Steve smith and Stokes can they will this years tournament certainly looks a lot difficult.They have a bigger purse so lets hope they use it wisely.

Remaining Purse:- 21.45Cr 

Kings XI Punjab

Players Retained:-

 KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Andrew Tye, Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Rajpoot,Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Karun Nair, David Miller, Ravichandran Ashwin. 

Mandeep Singh (traded from Banglore)

Players Released:-

Aaron Finch, Axar Patel, Mohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Barinder Sran, Ben Dwarshuis, Manoj Tiwary, Akshdeep Nath, Pardeep Sahu, Mayank Dagar,Manzoor Dar.

Areas of Concern:-

Indian fast bowlers will be a key asset to this team Shami is a good option. They have the biggest purse among all the teams will have to wait and watch on how they are going to use it .
Remaining Purse:- 36.20Cr 

That is it for now, The news is that December 18 is the date for the auctions and the venue for the 2019 IPL is most likely to be South Africa.

The tournament will start from March 23 2019, much earlier because of the World Cup which is scheduled from June 5.