Kevin Pietersen, the Rising Pune Supergiants batsman, and Pawan Negi, the Delhi Daredevils allrounder, were among the high profile players released by the IPL franchises during the transfer window that ended on December 15, ahead the 2017 player auction.

Rising Pune Supergiants

Kevin Pietersen played only four games for Rising Pune Supergiants before he was injured BCCI

Players released (11) Kevin Pietersen, Ishant Sharma, Irfan Pathan, Thisara Perera, RP Singh, Scott Boland, M Ashwin, Peter Handscomb, Saurabh Tiwary, Albie Morkel, George Bailey

Players retained (16) MS Dhoni, Ajinkya Rahane, R Ashwin, Steven Smith, Faf du Plessis, Mitchell Marsh, Ashok Dinda, Ankush Bains, Rajat Bhatia, Ankit Sharma, Ishwar Pandey, Adam Zampa, Jaskaran Singh, Baba Aparajith, Deepak Chahar, Usman Khawaja

Purse spent INR 469,000,000

Purse remaining INR 191,000,000

Gujarat Lions

Dale Steyn played only one game for Gujarat Lions BCCI

Players released (8) Dale Steyn, Paras Dogra, Eklavya Dwivedi, Sarabjit Ladda, Pravin Tambe, Umang Sharma, Amit Mishra (UP fast bowler), Akshdeep Nath,

Players retained (16) Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, James Faulkner, Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Bravo, Aaron Finch, Dwayne Smith, Dinesh Karthik, Dhawal Kulkarni, Praveen Kumar, Andrew Tye, Ishan Kishan, Pradeep Sangwan, Shivil Kaushik, Shadab Jakati, Jaydev Shah

Purse spent INR 516,500, 000

Purse remaining INR 143,500,000

Kings XI Punjab

David Miller retained Kings XI Punjab's top contract despite making only 161 runs in 13 innings BCCI

Players released (4) Mitchell Johnson, Rishi Dhawan, Kyle Abbott, Farhaan Behardien

Players retained (19) David Miller, Manan Vohra, Axar Patel, Glenn Maxwell, Gurkeerat Singh, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Shaun Marsh, Wriddhiman Saha, M Vijay, Nikhil Naik, Mohit Sharma, Marcus Stoinis, KC Cariappa, Armaan Jaffer, Pardeep Sahu, Swapnil Singh, Hashim Amla

Purse spent INR 426,500,000

Purse remaining INR 233,500,000

Kolkata Knight Riders

Colin Munro played only four games for KKR in 2016 and made 30 runs BCCI

Players released (9) Morne Morkel, Brad Hogg, Jason Holder, Colin Munro, John Hastings, Jaydev Unadkat, R Sathish, Manan Sharma, Shaun Tait

Players retained (14) Gautam Gambhir, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Shakib Al Hasan, Chris Lynn, Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Sheldon Jackson, Ankit Singh Rajput

Purse spent INR 462,500,000

Purse remaining INR 197,500,000

Mumbai Indians

Martin Guptill was let go by Mumbai Indians, after being brought in as a replacement player last season BCCI

Players released (8) Corey Anderson, Marchant de Lange, Unmukt Chand, Akshay Wakhare, Nathu Singh, Kishore Kamath, Martin Guptill, Jerome Taylor

Players retained (20) Rohit Sharma, Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Harbhajan Singh, Ambati Rayudu, Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Gopal, Lendl Simmons, Vinay Kumar, Parthiv Patel, Mitchell McClenaghan, Nitish Rana, Siddhesh Lad, J Suchith, Hardik Pandya, Jos Buttler, Tim Southee, Jithesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Deepak Punia

Purse spent INR 544,450,000

Purse remaining INR 115,550,000

Delhi Daredevils

Imran Tahir played only four games for Delhi Daredevils last season and went for 8.62 runs per over BCCI

Players released (7) Nathan Coulter-Nile, Imran Tahir, Joel Paris, Pawan Negi, Pawan Suyal, Akhil Herwadkar, Mahipal Lomror,

Players retained (18) JP Duminy, Mohammed Shami, Quinton de Kock, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mayank Agarwal, Jayant Yadav, Amit Mishra, Shreyas Iyer, Zaheer Khan, Sam Billings, Sanju Samson, Chris Morris, Carlos Brathwaite, Karun Nair, Rishabh Pant, CV Milind, Syed Ahmed, Pratyush Singh

Purse spent INR 445,000,000

Purse remaining INR 215,000,000

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Shane Watson kept his place with RCB, David Wiese did not BCCI

Players released (10) Varun Aaron, Abu Nechim, David Wiese, Kane Richardson, Vikramjeet Malik, Praveen Dubey, Akshay Karnewar, Vikas Tokas, Parvez Rasool, Chris Jordan

Players retained (20) Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Mitchell Starc, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Sarfaraz Khan, S Aravind, Kedar Jadhav, Shane Watson, Stuart Binny, Samuel Badree, Travis Head, Sachin Baby, Iqbal Abdulla, KL Rahul, Avesh Khan, Tabraiz Shamsi

Purse spent INR 531,750,000

Purse remaining INR 128,250,000

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Eoin Morgan made only 123 runs at a strike rate of 117 for Sunrisers Hyderabad last season BCCI

Players released (6) Karn Sharma, Ashish Reddy, Eoin Morgan, Trent Boult, T Suman, Aditya Tare

Players retained (17) Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, David Warner, Moises Henriques, Naman Ojha, Ricky Bhui, Kane Williamson, Siddarth Kaul, Bipul Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh, Ben Cutting, Abhimanyu Mithun, Mustafizur Rahman, Barinder Sran, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar

Purse spent INR 451,000,000

Purse remaining INR 209,000,000