IPL Auction 2019: Date, time, teams, retained squad, players to buy, salary cap and slots- All you need to know

IPL AUction: There are 9 players - Brendon McCullum, Chris Woakes, Lasith Malinga, Colin Ingram, Shaun Marsh, Corey Anderson, Sam Curran, Angelo Mathews and D'Arcy Short - who have the base price of Rs 2 Crore in IPL 2019 Player Auction.

Jaydev Unadkat, the most expensive India player at last year's auction, will have base price of Rs 1.5 crore - the highest among Indians. Players like Yuvraj Singh, Alex Hales, Jonny Bairstow, Dale Steyn, Rilee Rossouw, Luke Wright, Alex Carey and Hanuma Vihari will be going under the hammer.

The 2019 IPL Auction will start at 3:30 PM in Jaipur. You can watch the IPL auction live broadcast on Star Sports Network TV channels from 2.30 pm on Tuesday. The IPL 2019 auction live streaming will be available on Hotstar app and hotstar.com website as well. 

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Chennai Super Kings

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

Released: Mark Wood, Kanishk Seth, Kshitiz Sharma

Salary cap available: Rs 8.40 crore

Available slots: 2 (Indian 2, Overseas 0)

What Chennai Super Kings need: Chennai are the most settled going into this year’s auction. They don't need to do much at the auction.

Players CSK could target at IPL auction 2019: Varun Aaron or Aniket Chaudhary

Kings XI Punjab

Retained: Lokesh Rahul, Chris Gayle, Andrew Tye, Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Rajpoot, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Karun Nair, David Miller and Ravichandran Ashwin

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

Traded: Marcus Stoinis for Mandeep Singh with RCB

Salary cap available: Rs 36.20 crore

Available slots: 15 (Indian 11, Overseas 4)

What Kings XI Punjab need: They need a wicketkeeper, all-rounder, Indian pace bowler and another spinner to support the core of the team.

Players KXIP could target at IPL auction 2019: Moises Henriques, Anmolpreet Singh, Colin Ingram, Lasith Malinga and Varun Chakravarthy

Mumbai Indians

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

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

Traded: Quinton de Kock from RCB

Salary cap available: Rs 11.15 crore

Available slots: 7 (Indian 6, Overseas 1)

What Mumbai Indians need: They need an experienced spin bowler and overseas fast bowler in their otherwise solid squad.

Players MI could target at IPL auction 2019: Shivam Dube, Mohammed Shami and Axar Patel

Delhi Capitals (previously Delhi DareDevils)

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

Released: Jason Roy, Junior Dala, Liam Plunkett, Mohammed Shami, Sayan Ghosh, Daniel Christian, Glenn Maxwell, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Naman Ojha

Traded: Shikhar Dhawan from SRH for Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem with Delhi Capitals

Salary cap available: Rs 25.50 crore

Available slots: 10 (Indian 7, Overseas 3)

What Delhi Capitals need: With Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw and captain Shreyas Iyer they have a soild top order. However, they have to a find replacements for Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Shami and Gautam Gambhir. 

Players DC could target at IPL auction 2019: Brendon McCullum, Carlos Brathwaite, Corey Anderson and Ishant Sharma

Rajasthan Royals

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

Released: D'Arcy Short, Ben Laughlin, Heinrich Klaasen, Dane Paterson, Zahir Khan, Dushmantha Chameera, Jaydev Unadkat, Anureet Singh, Ankit Sharma, Jatin Saxena.

Salary cap available: Rs 20.95 crore

Available slots: 9 (Indian 6, Overseas 3)

What Rajasthan Royals need: Rajasthan Royals had to release D'Arcy Short and Jaydev Undakat after an underwhelming season last year. They will need some firepower at the top of the batting and start of the bowling. 

Players RR could target at IPL auction 2019: Brendon McCullum, Chris Woakes, Md Shami and Jalaj Saxena

Kolkata Knight Riders 

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

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

Salary cap available: Rs 15.20 crore

Available slots: 12 (Indian 7, Overseas 5)

What Kolkata Knight Riders need: They need experienced fast bowlers to replace Mitchell Starc and a possible replacement for Chris Lynn in second half of the tournament.

Players KKR could target at IPL Auction 2019: Manoj Tiwary, Dale Steyn, Martin Guptill and Jaydev Unadkat

Royal Challengers Bangalore

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

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

Traded: Mandeep Singh for Marcus Stoinis with KXIP

Salary cap available: Rs 18.15 crore

Available slots: 10 (Indian 8, Overseas 2)

What Royal Challengers Bangalore need: RCB let go of both Quinton de Kock and Brendon McCullum, and hence could be in the market for an explosive batsman to slot in at the top. They also need a death bowler.

Players RCB could target at IPL auction 2019: Shimron Hetmyer, Hanuma Vihari and Dale Steyn

Sunrisers Hyderabad

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

Released: Sachin Baby, Tanmay Agarwal, Wriddhiman Saha, Chris Jordan, Carlos Brathwaite, Alex Hales, Bipul Sharma, Mehdi Hasan

Traded: Shikhar Dhawan to Delhi Capitals for Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem

Salary cap available: Rs 9.70 crore

Available slots: 5 (Indian 3, Overseas 2)

What Sunrisers Hyderabad need: SRH will look to find a replacement for Shikhar Dhawan for the opening batsmen’s slot. 

Players SRH could target at IPL auction 2019: Reeza Hendricks, D'Arcy Short, or Mohammad Shahzad.