IPL 2023: News | Auction dates | Retained players list

The 2023 Indian Premier League, also known as IPL 16 is the sixteenth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL).  Here are some details.

IPL 2023: News | Auction dates | Retained players list

BCCI added 2 new teams ahead of IPL 2022 so you will see 10 teams in IPL 2023.

There will be 74 league matches in IPL 2023 as BCCI comes with a group stage and playoffs format which is the same as IPL 2022.

This is the T20 cricket league established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The Tata Group is the title sponsor for IPL seasons 2022 and 2023.

IPL 2023 news

Punjab Kings remains one such side which is yet to win the IPL. After missing the playoffs in 2022, Punjab is likely to take a few tough decisions.

While reports had earlier suggested that PBKS is ready to part ways with head coach Anil Kumble, latest developments indicate that captain Mayank Agarwal may also be removed.

A report on InsideSport suggests that England’s Jonny Bairstow could lead the side in the upcoming season.

Mayank, who usually opens, opted to bat lower down the order and that did no good for him as he had one of his worst seasons in IPL ever where scored only 196 runs in 13 games at an average of 16.33 and a strike rate of 122.50.

Auction dates

After a star-studded mega auction of IPL 2022, the auction for IPL 2023 won’t be as grand as the previous one and can be called a mini-auction.

The trading window for IPL 2023 will soon open and all 10 teams would be able to shed some deadwood and register new players ahead of the IPL 2023 season. 

Speaking to the InsideSport website, a senior BCCI official said that the trading window could open as early as November 2022, with the mini-auction of IPL 2023, probably being held in January or February. 

Retained players list 

Here is the list of the players who might be Retained & Released in IPL 2023

RCB Retained Players – Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Virat Kohli, Anuj Rawat, Shahbaz Ahamad, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, Mahipal Lomror, Mohammed Siraj, Sherfane Rutherford, Jason Behrendorff, Suyash Prabhudessai, Dinesh Karthik, Chama Milind, Aneeshwar Gautam, Finn Allen, Rajat Patidar.

CSK Retained Players – MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwaine Pretorius, Moeen Ali, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Shivam Dube, Maheesh Theekshana, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, N Jagadeesan, Devon Conway, Dwayne Bravo, Adam Milne, Subhranshu Senapati, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, C Hari Nishaanth, Simarjeet Singh, K Bhagath Varma

MI Retained Players – Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Basil Thampi, Mayank Markande, Tilak Varma, Sanjay Yadav, Ramandeep Singh, Daniel Sams, Tim David, Riley Meredith, Dewald Brevis, Hrithik Shokeen, Mohammad Arshad Khan (injured/replaced Kumar Kartikeya Singh), Anmolpreet Singh, Rahul Buddhi, Jofra Archer, Arjun Tendulkar, Aryan Juyal, Murugan Ashwin, Fabian Allen

DC Retained Players – Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw, Axar Patel, Yash Dhull, David Warner, Chetan Sakariya, Shardul Thakur, Mustafizur Rahman, Kuldeep Yadav, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Sarfaraz Khan, Anrich Nortje, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Lalit Yadav, Ripal Patel, Mitch Marsh, Rovman Powell, Pravin Dubey, Ashwin Hebbar, Vicky Ostwal

KKR Retained Players – Shreyas Iyer, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Varun Chakravarthy, Rasikh Dar, Pat Cummins, Nitish Rana, Abhijeet Tomar, Shivam Mavi, Sheldon Jackson, Rinku Singh, Mohammad Nabi, Anukul Roy, Chamika Karunaratne, Venkatesh Iyer, Pratham Singh, Ashok Sharma, Tim Southee, Ramesh Kumar, Ajinkya Rahane, Umesh Yadav

PBKS Retained Players – Mayank Agarwal, Arshdeep Singh, Shikhar Dhawan, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jonny Bairstow, Rahul Chahar, Raj Bawa, Harpreet Brar, Jitesh Sharma, Ishan Porel, Liam Livingstone, Odean Smith, Shahrukh Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Rishi Dhawan, Prerak Mankad, Vaibhav Arora, Writtick Chatterjee, Baltej Dhanda, Ansh Patel, Sandeep Sharma, Atharva Taide, Benny Howell.