KKR has retained Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Varun Chakravarthy and Venkatesh Iyer for the upcoming IPL
All the existing IPL franchises on Tuesday revealed the list of their retained players ahead of the mega auction of the upcoming season
Assistant coach Andy Flower has parted ways with Punjab Kings and is expected to land a role in one of the new teams ahead of IPL 2022. Former Zimbabwe captain Flower, who worked as a coach in England for more than a decade and guided the national team there, was hired for his maiden IPL stint ahead of the 2020 season. "He sent his resignation to the team recently. It has been accepted. There is a good chance that he goes to one of the new teams (Lucknow or Ahmedabad)," a BCCI official told PTI. There is a good possibility that the 53-year-old is given a bigger role in his next IPL assignment. Flower worked alongside head coach Anil Kumble for the past two seasons. The development comes at a time when K L Rahul, Punjab Kings skipper for the past two seasons, is expected to move to the Lucknow franchise. Punjab wanted to retain Rahul but he did not want to stay. It remains to be seen if Flower stays as head coach of CPL franchise Saint Lucia Kings, which is owned by same consortiu
Punjab Kings retained Mayank Agarwal and Arshdeep Singh for the upcoming IPL, whereas Rahul opted to go back into the auction pool
Warner thanked all his fans and supporters for sticking by his side after the IPL franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) released him ahead of the mega auction of the upcoming season.
India Test and ODI skipper Virat Kohli has said that he did not have any second thoughts on staying with IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore for the next three editions of the tournament.
Royal Challengers Bangalore on Tuesday retained their former captain Virat Kohli while Mumbai Indians predictably retained India's T20 captain Rohit Sharma and pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah.
All the eight IPL franchises will reveal the list of their retained players later today
Most of the teams have been making last ditch efforts to keep players of their choice in the lead up to the mega auction next year.
The next edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), which will be a ten-team affair, is likely to begin on April 2 in Chennai
TVS Eurogrip said it has associated with four time IPL winner Chennai Super Kings, owned by The India Cements Ltd, to be its principal sponsor for the next three years
The IPL emerged as a global brand after the bidding for two teams last month fetched more than $1.5 billion
The former India captain was speaking at a felicitation function organised for CSK for winning the 2021 edition of IPL
Former South African batter AB de Villiers, who on Friday announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, said that arriving at the decision took a lot of time
BCCI has still not given the Letter of Intent to American company Irelia Co Pvt Ltd (CVC Capital Partners), who were awarded the franchise rights of the newly inducted Ahmedabad team
India failed to make it to the semifinals of the ICC event, paying heavily for the back-to-back early losses in the Super 12 stage
So, clearly, the two new players have a lot of options to be the winners
The genesis of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka group lies in a family settlement that formalised a division of assets between brothers Harsh and Sanjiv Goenka in 2010
In case of four retentions, it could be either three Indians and one foreign player or at the maximum two Indians and as many foreigners
In the second half of the IPL in the UAE, KKR made a huge turnaround