The 2019 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is going to be the twelfth season of the IPL, which is a professional Twenty20 cricket league. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) establish the league in 2007.
On 8 January 2019, the BCCI made the announcement that the competition will start on 23 March and take place in various places in India. The bidding war of the 2019 IPL Players’ Auction was held in Jaipur, in the course of which huge amount of money around Rs 106.80 crore was spent.
Here are the names of full squads of all 8 IPL teams that will play the 12th edition of IPL in 2019:
Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
Squad strength: 25
Indians: 17
Overseas: 8
Retained: MS Dhoni (C), Suresh Raina, Sam Billings, Mitchell Santner, David Willey, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Karn Sharma, Ambati Rayudu, Harbhajan Singh, Dhruv Shorey, Faf du Plessis, M Vijay, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Shane Watson, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Kedar Jadhav, N Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi
Bought (2): Mohit Sharma (Rs 5 crore), Ruturaj Gaikwad (Rs 20 lakh)
Delhi Capitals
Squad strength: 25
Indians: 17
Overseas: 8
Retained: Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Rahul Tewatia, Jayant Yadav, Manjot Kalra, Colin Munro, Chris Morris, Kagiso Rabada, Sandeep Lamichhane, Trent Boult
Bought (10): Hanuma Vihari (Rs 2 crore), Axar Patel (Rs 5 crore), Ishant Sharma (Rs 1.10 crore), Ankush Bains (Rs 20 lakh), Nathu Singh (Rs 20 lakh), Colin Ingram (Rs 6.40 crore), Sherfane Rutherford (Rs 2 crore), Keemo Paul (Rs 50 lakh), Jalaj Saxena (Rs 20 lakh), Bandaru Ayyappa (Rs 20 lakh)
Traded: Shikhar Dhawan from Sunrisers Hyderabad for Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem
Kings Xi Punjab (KXIP)
Squad strength: 23
Indians: 15
Overseas: 8
Retained: KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Rajpoot, Chris Gayle, Andrew Tye, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Karun Nair, David Miller and Ravichandran Ashwin
Bought (13): Moises Henriques (Rs 1 crore), Sam Curran (Rs 7.2 crore), Mohammad Shami (Rs 4.2 crore), Nicholas Pooran (Rs 4.2 crore), Varun Chakaravarthy (Rs 8.4 crore), Sarfaraz Khan (Rs 25 lakh), Hardus Viljoen (Rs 75 lakh), Agnivesh Ayachi (Rs 20 lakh), Harpreet Brar (Rs 20 lakh), Arshdeep Singh (Rs 20 lakh), Darshan Nalkande (Rs 30 lakh), Prabhsimran Singh (Rs 4.8 crore), Murugan Ashwin (Rs 20 lakh)
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
Squad strength: 21
Indians: 13
Overseas: 8
Retained: Dinesh Karthik (C), Robin Uthappa, Sunil Narine, Shubman Gill, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Shivam Mavi, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Chris Lynn, Andre Russell, Kamlesh Nagarkoti
Bought (8): Lockie Ferguson (Rs 1.60 crore), Carlos Brathwaite (Rs 5 crore), Anrich Nortje (Rs 20 lakh), Shrikant Mundhe (Rs 20 lakh), Nikhil Naik (Rs 20 lakh), Harry Gurney (Rs 75 lakh), Yarra Prithviraj (Rs 20 lakh), Joe Denly (Rs 1 crore)
Mumbai Indians (MI)
Squad strength: 24
Indians: 16
Overseas: 8
Retained: Rohit Sharma (C), Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Rahul Chahar, Quinton de Kock, Evin Lewis, Kieron Pollard, Suryakumar Yadav, Mayank Markande, Ben Cutting, Mitchell McClenaghan, Anukul Roy, Siddhesh Lad, Aditya Tare, Adam Milne, Jason Behrendorff
Bought (6): Lasith Malinga (Rs 2 crore), Rasikh Salam (Rs 20 lakh), Yuvraj Singh (Rs 1 crore), Anmolpreet Singh (Rs 80 lakh), Barinder Sran (Rs 3.40 crore), Pankaj Jaiswal (Rs Rs 20 lakh)
Traded: Quinton de Kock from RCB (for Rs 2.8 crore)
Rajasthan Royals (RR)
Squad strength: 25
Indians: 17
Overseas: 8
Retained: Dhawal Kulkarni, Mahipal Lomror, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Gopal, Aryaman Birla, S. Midhun, Prashant Chopra, Stuart Binny, Rahul Tripathi, Ben Stokes, Steve Smith, Jos Buttler, Ajinkya Rahane, Krishnappa Gowtham Jofra Archer, Ish Sodhi,
Bought (9): Jaydev Unadkat (Rs 8.4 crore), Liam Livinstone (Rs 50 lakh), Shubham Rajane (Rs 20 lakh), Varun Aaron (Rs 2.4 crore), Oshane Thomas (Rs 1.1 crore), Manan Vohra (Rs 20 lakh), Shashank Singh (Rs 30 lakh), Ashton Turner (Rs 50 lakh), Riyan Parag (Rs 20 lakh)
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RBC)
Squad strength: 24
Indians: 16
Overseas: 8
Retained: Virat Kohli (C), AB de Villiers, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Parthiv Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Moeen Ali, Mohammed Siraj, Colin de Grandhomme, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav
Bought (9): Shivam Dube (5 crore), Shimron Hetmyer (4.2 crore), Devdutt Padikkal (20 lakh), Heinrich Klassen (50 lakh), Gurkeerat Singh (50 lakh), Prayas Ray Barman (Rs 1.5 crore), Himmat Singh (Rs 65 lakh),
Traded: Mandeep Singh for Marcus Stoinis
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
Squad strength: 23
Indians: 15
Overseas: 8
Retained: Basil Thampi, Ricky Bhui, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Manish Pandey, T Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma, Siddarth Kaul, Mohammad Nabi, Deepak Hooda, Shreevats Goswami (wk), Khaleel Ahmed, Yusuf Pathan, Billy Stanlake, David Warner, Kane Williamson, Rashid Khan, Shakib Al Hasan
Bought (3): Jonny Bairstow (Rs 2.20 crore), Wriddhiman Saha (Rs 1.2 crore), Martin Guptill (Rs 1 crore)
