VIVO Indian Premier League 2016 is knocking the door and franchises have started to make preparations for team structure and line-ups. In the squad preparation, 8 IPL teams have retained 101 cricketers and released 61 players from their 2015 rosters. These released players will go under hammer in the VIVO IPL 2016 auction on 6th February in Bengaluru. 

List of Players released for VIVO IPL 2016.

Released players list of 2016 IPL comes with big names. Delhi Daredevils didn’t retain veteran Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh whereas Sunrisers Hyderabad released former English player Kevin Pietersen. Recently taken retirement from international and Indian Premier League cricket, destructive opener Virender Sehwag is also released from Kings XI Punjab squad.

Some of the popular Twenty20 cricketers like Angelo Matthews, Darren Sammy, George Bailey, Johan Botha, Aaron Finch, Alex Hales, Dale Steyn and more have been released by the franchises. The closing window for retaining the players was 31st December 2015.

Let’s have a look at the complete list of players released for IPL auction 2016.

VIVO IPL 2016 Player Released List

Delhi Daredevils Kings XI Punjab Kolkata Knight Riders
Yuvraj Singh Virender Sehwag Vaibhav Rawal
C.M. Gautam Beuran Hendricks Johan Botha
Domnic Joseph Muthuswamy Karnveer Singh Aditya Garhwal
Manoj Tiwary Yogesh Golwalkar Pat Cummins
Jaydev Unadkat George Bailey K. C. Cariappa
Angelo Matthews Parvinder Awana Ryan Ten Doeschate
K. K. Jiyaz Thisara Perera Veer Pratap Singh
Marcus Stoinis Shivam Sharma Sumit Narwal
Kona Srikar Bharat James Neesham
Gurinder Sandhu Azhar Mahmood
Mumbai Indians Sunrisers Hyderabad Royal Challengers Bangalore
Aditya Tare Laxmi Ratan Shukla Manvinder Bisla
Aiden Blizzard Praveen Kumar Yogesh Takawale
Ben Hilfenhaus Chama Milind Vijay Zol
Pawan Suyal Dale Steyn Sandeep Warrier
Aaron Finch Ishant Sharma Ashok Dinda
Colin Munro Kevin Pietersen Nic Maddinson
Abhimanyu Mithun Gadu Hanuma Vihari Dinesh Karthik
Alex Hales Ravi Bopara Shishir Bhavane
Pragyan Ojha Prasanth Padmanabhan Iqbal Abdullah
Josh Hazlewood Darren Sammy
Jalaj Saxena
Subramaniam Badrinath
Sean Abbott
Rilee Rossouw

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