IPL auction 2018: Complete list of players franchises can retain via RTM
Mumbai: With just a few days left for the Indian Premier League (IPL) players’ auction which will be held in Bengaluru on January 27 and 28, teams will engage in a fierce bidding war as they aim to rope in the best players.
The IPL Player retentions in early January saw a total of 18 players being retained by the eight franchises, including Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) who are making a comeback following a two-year spot-fixing ban.
While more than 1000 players had registered for the auctions, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has trimmed the list of players to 578 who will go under the hammer.
What is Right-to-Match (RTM) card?
The RTM was an option introduced by the IPL Governing Council that enables a franchise to retain their key players.
Teams are eligible to use a maximum on 3 RTM cards, but it also depends on the numbers of players they have acquired during the IPL Player Retention event.
Franchisees that have retained three players before the auction can use a maximum of two RTM cards while franchisees that have retained less than three players, can exercise their full quota for RTMs.
Note - A maximum of five players can be retained keeping the following things in mind - maximum three capped Indian players, maximum two uncapped Indian players, maximum two overseas players.
How does it work?
RTMs can be used by teams during the auction process. If a franchise wishes to acquire a player who was a part of their previous squad but another team has made their bid for him, the RTM enables a team to retain the player but at the cost of the price the other team quoted for that player.
Below we take a look at the eight IPL teams and the players they can retain using the RTM cards:
1) Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
Players retained - Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Sarfaraz Khan
Maximum players retainable via RTM - Two
Capped Indian players retainable via RTM - Two
Uncapped Indian players retainable via RTM - One
Overseas players retainable via RTM – One
Budget left in purse: Rs. 49 crore
List of players available via RTM: Chris Gayle, Yuzvendra Chahal, KL Rahul, Kedar Jadhav, Shane Watson, Stuart Binny, Samuel Badree, Travis Head, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Sreenath Aravind, Sachin Baby, Iqbal Abdulla, Avesh Khan, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tymal Mills, Billy Stanlake, Pawan Negi, Praveen Dubey and Aniket Chaudhary.
2) Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
Players retained - Sunil Narine and Andre Russell
Maximum players retainable via RTM - Three
Capped Indian players retainable via RTM - Three
Uncapped Indian players retainable via RTM - Two
Overseas players retainable via RTM – Zero
RTM cards left: 3
Budget left in purse: Rs. 59 crore
List of players available via RTM: Gautam Gambhir, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Suryakumar Yadav, Sheldon Jackson, Ankit Rajpoot, Rishi Dhawan, Sayan Ghosh, R Sanjay Yadav and Ishank Jaggi.
Players retained - MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja
Maximum players retainable via RTM - Two
Capped Indian players retainable via RTM - Zero
Uncapped Indian players retainable via RTM - Two
Overseas players retainable via RTM - Two
Budget left in purse: Rs 47 crore
List of players available via RTM: Baba Aparajith, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Ishwar Pandey, Brendon McCullum, Ronit More, Dwayne Smith and Andrew Tye.
Players retained - Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Jaspreet Bumrah
Maximum players retainable via RTM - Two
Capped Indian players retainable via RTM - Zero
Uncapped Indian players retainable via RTM - Two
Overseas players retainable via RTM - Two
Budget left in purse: Rs. 47 crore
List of players available via RTM: Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga Krunal Pandya, Tim Southee, Jos Buttler, Mitchell McClenaghan, Lendl Simmons, Kieron Pollard, Mitchell Johnson, Shreyas Gopal, Nitish Rana, Siddhesh Lad, J Suchith, Deepak Punia, Jitesh Sharma, K Gowtham, Kulwant Khejroliya, Asela Gunaratne and Nicholas Pooran.
Players retained - David Warner and Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Maximum players retainable via RTM - Three
Capped Indian players retainable via RTM - Two
Uncapped Indian players retainable via RTM - Two
Overseas players retainable via RTM - One
Budget left in purse: Rs. 67.5 crore
List of players available via RTM: Rashid Khan, Shikhar Dhawan, Moises Henriques, Kane Williamson, Siddharth Kaul, Naman Ojha, Ricky Bhui, Bipul Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Ben Cutting, Mohammed Siraj, Abhimanyu Mithun, Barinder Sran, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Eklavya Dwivedi, Chris Jordan, Mohammad Nabi, Ben Laughlin, Pravin Tambe and Tanmay Agarwal.
Players retained - Shreyas Iyer, Chris Morris, Rishabh Pant
Maximum players retainable via RTM - Two
Capped Indian players retainable via RTM - One
Uncapped Indian players retainable via RTM - Two
Overseas players retainable via RTM - One
Budget left in purse: Rs. 47 crore
List of players available via RTM: JP Duminy, Mohammed Shami, Quinton de Kock, Angelo Mathews, Corey Anderson, Kagiso Rabada, Pat Cummins, Shahbaz Nadeem, Jayant Yadav, Amit Mishra, Zaheer Khan, Sam Billings, Sanju Samson, Carlos Brathwaite, Karun Nair, CV Milind, Syed Ahmed, Pratyush Singh, Ankit Bawne, Aditya Tare, Murugan Ashwin, Navdeep Saini and Shashank Singh.
Players retained - Steven Smith
Maximum players retainable via RTM - Three
Capped Indian players retainable via RTM - Three
Uncapped Indian players retainable via RTM - Two
Overseas players retainable via RTM - One
Budget left in purse: Rs. 67.5 crore
List of players available via RTM: Ajinkya Rahane, Rajat Bhatia, James Faulkner, Dhawal Kulkarni, Vikramjeet Malik, Ankit Sharma, Abhishek Nayar, Dinesh Salunkhe, Dishant Yagnik, Sagar Trivedi, Rahul Tewatia and Juan Theron.
Players retained - Axar Patel
Maximum players retainable via RTM - Three
Capped Indian players retainable via RTM - Two
Uncapped Indian players retainable via RTM - Two
Overseas players retainable via RTM - Two
Budget left in purse: Rs. 67.5 crore
List of players available via RTM: Hashim Amla, Marcus Stoinis, Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, David Miller, Eoin Morgan, Varun Aaron, Martin Guptill, Darren Sammy, Manan Vohra, Gurkeerat Mann Singh, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Wriddhiman Saha, Murali Vijay, NS Naik, Mohit Sharma, KC Cariappa, Armaan Jaffer, Pradeep Sahu, Swapnil Singh, Rahul Tewatia, T Natarajan, Matt Henry and Rinku Singh.
