All the 6 teams have retained some players and has releases some big names ahead of IPL Auction. Yuvraj Singh, Dale Steyn, Kevin Pietersen, Ishant Sharma were among the big names released by Indian Premier League (IPL) teams ahead of the new season.
With the deadline for retention of players for IPL 2016 ending on December 31, 2015 at 5 PM IST, the 6 franchises announced their squads before next month's auction in Bengaluru.
IPL 2016: Full list of players retained by 6 teams
Yuvraj, who attracted a bid of whopping Rs. 16 crores last season played for Delhi Daredevils. However, the southpaw failed to deliver big and could manage only 248 runs from 14 games at an average of 19, and has been released by the Delhi team.
Here is the full list of players released by 6 franchises ahead of IPL 2016
| Delhi Daredevils | Kings XI Punjab |
| Player Name | Player Name |
| Yuvraj Singh | Karanveer Singh |
| C.M. Gautam | Parvinder Awana |
| Domnic Joseph Muthuswamy | Shivam Sharma |
| Jaydev Unadkat | Virender Sehwag |
| K. K. Jiyaz | Yogesh Golwalkar |
| Kona Srikar Bharat | Beuran Hendricks |
| Manoj Tiwary | George Bailey |
| Angelo Mathews | Thisara Perera |
| Gurinder Sandhu | |
| Marcus Stoinis | |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | Mumbai Indians |
| Player Name | Player Name |
| Veer Pratap Singh | Aditya Tare |
| Aditya Garhwal | Abhimanyu Mithun |
| K.C Cariappa | Pawan Suyal |
| Sumit Narwal | Pragyan Ojha |
| Vaibhav Rawal | Aiden Blizzard |
| Patrick Cummins | Aaron Finch |
| Ryan ten Doeschate | Alex Hales |
| James Neesham | Ben Hilfenhaus |
| Azhar Mahmood | Colin Munro |
| Johan Botha | Josh Hazlewood |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| Player Name | Player Name |
| Vijay Zol | Chama Milind |
| Ashok Dinda | Gade Hanuma Vihari |
| Dinesh Karthik | Ishant Sharma |
| Iqbal Abdullah | Laxmi Ratan Shukla |
| Jalaj Saxena | Prasanth Padmanabhan |
| Manvinder Bisla | Praveen Kumar |
| Sandeep Warrier | Dale Steyn |
| Shishir Bhavane | Kevin Pietersen |
| Subramaniam Badrinath | Ravi Bopara |
| Yogesh Takawale | |
| Nic Maddinson | |
| Darren Sammy | |
| Rilee Rossouw | |
| Sean Abbott |