Indian Premier League have announced the list of players retained for VIVO IPL 2016. The players retention window for teams closed on 31st December at 17:00 local time. A total of 101 players have been retained by all participating 8 teams for the ninth edition of IPL beginning from 9 April. 37 overseas players included in the list.
2016 Indian Premier League title defending champions Mumbai Indians have retained captain Rohit Sharma, Lasith Malinga, Harbhajan Singh, Kieron Pollard, Corey Anderson and some other 15 players from 2015 squad. They retained maximum players by an other franchise as they retained 19 cricketers.
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On the other hand, Royal Challengers Bangalore retained star opener Chris Gayle, captain Virat Kohli and Ab De Villiers as team retained a total of 14 players. Gatuam Gambhir, JP Duminy, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Johnson, Andre Russell, Morne Morkel, Shikhar Dhawan, David Warner are some of the popular players retained by respective clubs for the 9th IPL season.
Two new teams of Indian Premier League Rajkot and Pune are already having 5-5 players each that they got in players draft in December 2015.
VIVO IPL 2016 Player Retention List
| Kolkata Knight Riders | Mumbai Indians | Kings XI Punjab | Delhi Daredevils |
| Gautam Gambhir | Akshay Wakhare | Akshar Patel | Amit Mishra |
| Kuldeep Singh Yadav | Ambati Rayudu | Anureet Singh | Jayant Yadav |
| Manish Pandey | Rohit Sharma | Gurkeerat Singh Mann | Mayank Agarwal |
| Piyush Chawla | Harbhajan Singh | Manan Vohra | Mohammad Shami |
| Robin Uthappa | Hardik Pandya | Murali Vijay | Saurabh Tiwary |
| Sheldon Jackson | J Suchitch | Nikhil Shankar Naik | Shahbaz Nadeem |
| Suryakumar Yadav | Nitish Rana | Rishi Dhawan | Shreyas Iyer |
| Umesh Yadav | Jasprit Bumrah | Sandeep Sharma | Zaheer Khan |
| Yusuf Pathan | Parthiv Patel | Shardul Narendra Thakur | Albie Morkel |
| Andre Russell | Vinay Kumar | Wriddhiman Saha | Imran Tahir |
| Brad Hogg | Shreyas Gopal | David Miller | JP Duminy |
| Chris Lynn | Unmukt Chand | Glenn Maxwell | Nathan Coulter Nile |
| Morne Morkel | Siddhesh Dinesh Lad | Mitchell Johnson | Quinton de Kock |
| Shakib Al Hasan | Corey Anderson | Shaun Marsh | Travis Head |
| Sunil Narine | Mitchell McClenaghan | ||
| Keiron Pollard | |||
| Marchant de Lange | |||
| Lasith Malinga | |||
| Lendl Simmons | |||
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | Sunrisers Hyderabad | Team Rajkot | Team Pune |
| Virat Kohli | Ashish Reddy | Suresh Raina | MS Dhoni |
| Abu Nechim Ahmed | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | Ravindra Jadeja | Ajinkya Rahane |
| Harshal Patel | Trent Boult | Brendon McCullum | Ravichandran Ashwin |
| Kedar Jadhav | Bipul Sharma | James Faulkner | Steven Smith |
| Mandeep Singh | Moises Henriques | Dwayne Bravo | Faf Du Plessis |
| Sarfaraz Khan | Kane Williamson | ||
| Varun Aaron | Karn Sharma | ||
| Sreenath Arvind | KL Rahul | ||
| Yuzvendra Singh Chahal | Naman Ojha | ||
| AB De Villiers | Eoin Morgan | ||
| Chris Gayle | Parvez Rasool | ||
| Mtchell Starc | David Warner | ||
| Adam Milne | Shikhar Dhawan | ||
| David Wiese | Ricky Bhui | ||
| Siddharth Kaul |