Good and bad news for Aussie IPL stars

Banned Australian duo Steve Smith and David Warner have been retained by their respective Indian Premier League franchises, but Aaron Finch and Glenn Maxwell are among a handful of big names that have been let go.

The eight IPL franchises have released their final lists of retained players for the 2019 tournament, with Smith (Rajasthan Royals) and Warner (Sunrisers Hyderabad) both retained despite being banned from this year’s event due to their role in the South African ball-tampering affair.

Image Id: 05C2FCB01A3B47C5B9393BFF2CC84011 Image Caption: Warner has been retained by Sunrisers Hyderabad // BCCI

Headlining the Australians to be let go by their franchises are Finch (Kings XI Punjab) and Maxwell (Delhi Daredevils) as well as Pat Cummins (Mumbai), Mitchell Starc (Kolkata) and D’Arcy Short (Rajasthan).

Smith and Warner are among the big Australians to be retained, along with Chris Lynn, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Billy Stanlake and Andrew Tye while Marcus Stoinis had already been traded from Kings XI to Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Players not retained will likely enter the player auction, which is set to be held in December.

The news comes after Cricket Australia confirmed members of Australia’s World Cup will miss the final few weeks of the tournament, while the anticipated earlier start to the IPL means Australian players may also be unavailable for the opening rounds due to a clash with the JLT Sheffield Shield and Australia’s ODI tour of Pakistan.

2019 IPL SQUADS SO FAR

Royal Challengers Bangalore

In: Marcus Stoinis

Out: Quinton de Kock, Mandeep Singh, Brendon McCullum, Chris Woakes, Corey Anderson, Sarfraz Khan

Retained: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Parthiv Patel, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Moeen Ali, Colin de Grandhomme, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya, Nathan Coulter-Nile

Mumbai Indians

In: Quinton de Kock

Out: Mustafizur Rahman, Pat Cummins, Akila Dananjaya, JP Duminy, Saurabh Tiwary, Tajinder Singh, Mohsin Khan, Pradeep Sangwan, MD Nidheesh, Sharad Lumba

Retained: Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Mayank Markande, Rahul Chahar, Anukul Roy, Siddhesh Lad, Aditya Tare, Evin Lewis, Kieron Pollard, Ben Cutting, Mitchell McClenaghan, Adam Milne, Jason Behrendorff

Delhi Daredevils

In: Shikhar Dhawan

Out: Gautam Gambhir, Jason Roy, Gurkeerat Mann, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammad Shami, Dan Christian, Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Sayan Ghosh, Liam Plunkett, Junior Dala, Naman Ojha

Retained: Shreyas Iyer, Prithvi Shaw, Rishabh Pant, Manjot Kalra, Colin Munro, Chris Morris, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Harshal Patel, Amit Mishra, Kagiso Rabada, Trent Boult, Sandeep Lamichhane, Avesh Khan

Sunrisers Hyderabad

In: Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem

Out: Shikhar Dhawan, Sachin Baby, Tanmay Agarwal, Wriddhiman Saha, Chris Jordan, Carlos Brathwaite, Alex Hales, Bipul Sharma, Syed Mehdi Hasan

Retained: David Warner, Yusuf Pathan, Rashid Khan, Shakib Al Hasan, Billy Stanlake, Kane Williamson, Mohammad Nabi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Manish Pandey, T Natarajan, Ricky Bhui, Sandeep Sharma, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, Basil Thampi, Deepak Hooda

Chennai Super Kings

In: None

Out: Mark Wood, Kanishk Seth, Kshitiz Sharma

Retained: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, M Vijay, Shane Watson, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, David Willey, Dwayne Bravo, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Sam Billings, Harbhajan Singh, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma, Dhruv Shorey, N Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi 

Kolkata Knight Riders

In: None

Out: Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson, Tom Curran, Cameron Delport, Javon Searles, Ishank Jaggi, Apoorv Wankhade, Vinay Kumar

Retained: Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Chris Lynn, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shivam Mavi, Kuldeep Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Prasidh Krishna

Kings XI Punjab

In: Mandeep Singh

Out: Marcus Stoinis, Axar Patel, Aaron Finch, Mohit Sharma, Barinder Sran, Yuvraj Singh, Ben Dwarshuis, Manoj Tiwary, Akshdeep Nath, Pardeep Sahu, Mayank Dagar, Manzoor Dar

Retained: Chris Gayle, David Miller, Karun Nair, Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul, R Ashwin, Ankit Rajpoot, Andrew Tye, Mujeeb ur Rahman

Rajasthan Royals

In: None

Out: Jaydev Unadkat, Anureet Singh, Ankit Sharma, Jatin Saxena, D'Arcy Short, Ben Laughlin

Retained: Steven Smith, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Jofra Archer, Ish Sodhi, Ajinkya Rahane, K Gowtham, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Gopal, Aryaman Birla, S Midhun, Prashant Chopra, Stuart Binny, Rahul Tripathi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mahipal Lomror