World Cup champion Josh Hazlewood has been released by the Royal Challengers Bangalore while Australian teammate Cameron Green has reportedly been traded in a $3.15 million deal.
On Sunday, the Bangalore franchise confirmed it had released 11 cricketers ahead of December’s Indian Premier League Auction, including Australian pace bowler Hazlewood.
The 32-year-old, who won an IPL title with the Chennai Super Kings in 2021, was snapped up by the Royal Challengers the following year for AU$1.45 million but only played three matches this year due to an Achilles heel injury.
“I’ve just come off the phone with Josh,” Bangalore head coach Andy Flower explained in a video uploaded to Twitter on Sunday.
“He, very pleasingly, has a baby on the way, due at the end of March.
“So Josh won’t be with us, certainly not for the first half of the season.”
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Meanwhile, the Mumbai Indians have traded Green to the Royal Challengers in an all-cash deal reported to be worth AUS$3.1 million.
According to several media outlets, including ESPNcricinfo and Cricbuzz, the 24-year-old will join Virat Kohli and Glenn Maxwell at Bangalore next season after Mumbai offloaded the all-rounder to increase its purse for the upcoming Auction.
Green scored 452 runs at 50.22 with a strike rate of 160.28 for Mumbai this year, blasting a century against the Sunrisers Hyderabad to book the franchise’s spot in the finals series.
The West Australian kissed the Mumbai Indians logo on his helmet after reaching triple figures at Wankhede Stadium.
Elsewhere, the Lucknow Super Giants have released Australian all-rounder Daniel Sams, while the Mumbai Indians decided not to retain pace duo Jhye Richardson and Riley Meredith.
The IPL Auction will take place in Dubai on December 19.
PLAYERS RETAINED AND RELEASED BY EACH IPL TEAM
Chennai Super Kings
Retained: MS Dhoni (c), Ravindra Jadeja, Moeen Ali, Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shivam Dube, Deepak Chahar, Mitchell Santner, Ajinkya Rahane, Shivam Dube, Mukesh Choudhary, Matheesha Pathirana, Maheesh Theekshana, Tushar Deshpande, Ajay Mandal, Shaik Rasheed, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Simarjeet Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Prashant Solanki.
Released: Ambati Rayudu (retired), Ben Stokes, Kyle Jamieson, Dwaine Pretorius, Sisanda Magala, Bhagath Varma, Subhranshu Senapati, Akash Singh
Delhi Capitals
Retained:Rishabh Pant (c), David Warner (c, 2023), Prithvi Shaw, Anrich Nortje, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Marsh, Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Pravin Dubey, Vicky Ostwal, Abishek Porel, Lalit Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed, Yash Dhull.
Released: Rilee Rossouw, Rovman Powell, Chetan Sakariya, Manish Pandey, Phil Salt, Mustafizur Rahman, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Sarfaraz Khan, Ripal Patel, Aman Khan, Priyam Garg
Gujarat Titans
Retained: Hardik Pandya (c), Rashid Khan, David Miller, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tewatia, Mohammed Shami, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, B Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Noor Ahmad, R Sai Kishore, Josh Little, Mohit Sharma
Released: Dasun Shanaka, Shivam Mavi, Yash Dayal, KS Bharat, Urvil Patel, Pradeep Sangwan, Odean Smith, Alzarri Joseph
Lucknow Super Giants
Retained: KL Rahul (c), Quinton de Kock, Devdutt Padikkal, Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Kyle Mayers, Ravi Bishnoi, Krunal Pandya, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mark Wood, Mohsin Khan, Yudhvir Singh, Ayush Badoni, Prerak Mankad, Yash Thakur, Mayank Yadav
Released: Jaydev Unadkat, Daniel Sams, Manan Vohra, Swapnil Singh, Karan Sharma, Karun Nair, Arpit Guleria, Suyash Shedge
Mumbai Indians
Retained: Rohit Sharma (c), Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma, Jasprit Bumrah, Dewald Brevis, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Cam Green, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Romario Shepherd, Jason Behrendorff
Released: Arshad Khan, Ramandeep Singh, Hrithik Shokeen, Raghav Goyal, Jofra Archer, Tristan Stubbs, Duan Jansen, Jhye Richardson, Riley Meredith, Chris Jordan, Sandeep Warrier
Kolkata Knight Riders
Retained: Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana (c, 2023), Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sunil Narine, Jason Roy. Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell,Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy
Released: Shardul Thakur, Umesh Yadav, Shakib Al Hasan, Litton Das, David Wiese, Arya Desai, N Jagadeesan, Mandeep Singh, Kulwant Khejroliya, Lockie Ferguson, Tim Southee, Johnson Charles
Punjab Kings
Retained: Shikhar Dhawan (c), Jitesh Sharma, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Jonny Bairstow, Kagiso Rabada, Nathan Ellis, Arshdeep Singh, Sikandar Raza, Prabhsimran Singh, Rahul Chahar, Gurnoor Brar, Shivam Singh, Harpreet Brar, Vidwath Kaverappa, Matthew Short, Rishi Dhawan, Harpreet Bhatia, Atharva Taide
Released: Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Shahrukh Khan, Mohit Rathee, Baltej Dhanda, Raj Bawa
Rajasthan Royals
Retained: Sanju Samson (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Trent Boult, Donovan Ferreira, Adam Zampa, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Kunal Rathore
Released: Joe Root, Jason Holder, Obed McCoy, Abdul Basith, Kuldip Yadav, M Ashwin, KC Cariappa, Akash Vashisht, KM Asif
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Retained: Faf du Plessis (c), Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Mohammed Siraj, Will Jacks, Suyash Prabhudessai, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Mayank Dagar, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Akash Deep, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar
Released: Wanindu Hasaranga, Josh Hazlewood, Harshal Patel, Finn Allen, Michael Bracewell, David Willey, Wayne Parnell, Sonu Yadav, Avinash Singh, Siddharth Kaul, Kedar Jadhav
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Retained: Aiden Markram (c), Rahul Tripathi, Heinrich Klaasen, Mayank Agarwal, Glenn Phillips, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Washington Sundar, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, T Natarajan, Anmolpreet Singh, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Abdul Samad, Upendra Yadav, Nitish Reddy, Sanvir Singh
Released: Harry Brook, Adil Rashid, Akeal Hosein, Samarth Vyas, Kartik Tyagi, Vivrant Sharma
