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Rcb Very Happy With The 12 Players Retained Mike Hesson Explains Why

RCB very happy with the 12 players retained; Mike Hesson explains why

The Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Director of Cricket Operations, Mike Hesson said that he was happy to have retained the 12 players that the franchise did for the upcoming 2012 season. “We made it to the semi-finals for the first time in three years in the 2020 season and on the basis of that thought of rewarding the players. We are very happy to have retained the 12 members,” he said.

Reflecting upon the decision of whom to retain and whom not to Hesson, 52, said, “We knew that we had some gaps in certain areas of the game. Obviously, the middle overs were a concern for us so we have retained the 12 players only as few are unavailable also due to retirement and other things.”

The former New Zealand coach also said that the focus of the team was to give more chances to young players and hence a lot of retainers are young players. “Our focus was young players as we gave game time to young guns in the last season in the form of Mohammed Siraj, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, and Shahbaaz Ahmed,” he said.

Two big names in the form of Aaron Finch and Chris Morris were released from the team. Speaking about that, Hesson said, “With Chris Morris, he has been injured and hasn’t played a lot of cricket at the highest level, so there is a bit of risk there. With Finch, it did not work out the way we wanted it to.”

RCB Retained Players: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Devdutt Padikkal, Md. Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Joshua Phillipe, Pavan Deshpande, Shahbaz Ahmed, Adam Zampa, Kane Richardson

RCB Released Players: Chris Morris, Shivam Dube, Aaron Finch, Umesh Yadav, Dale Steyn, Moeen Ali, Parthiv Patel, Pawan Negi, Isuru Udana, Gurkeerat Mann

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#ThankYouMalinga trends on Twitter as the legend bids gloomy goodbye to franchise cricket

The end of an era in cricket has often been used to announce the retirement of a great international player, but for the first time, franchise cricket would see it’s dynamic role model leave the arena as Sri Lankan great Lasith Malinga announced his retirement from franchise cricket after not being named in the retention list of the Indian Premier League side Mumbai Indians. The announcement was made on behalf of the T20 World Cup-winning Sri Lankan captain late in the night. However, the whole Twitter erupted to salute and pay tribute to a man who was one of the torchbearers of the IPL, one of the true icons of the league. Malinga, 37, had earlier decided against playing in the 2020 edition of the IPL citing his father’s health condition and also refused to play in the Lankan Premier League for a similar reason. Still, the highest wicket-taker in the IPL that too by a huge lead from the others at 170 wickets from 122 matches. His average of 19.80 and strike rate of 16.62 are the best among bowlers with more than 100 wickets in IPL history. Malinga’s last game in the IPL was the 2019 IPL final win versus Mumbai’s eternal rivals Chennai Super Kings where he single-handedly won the game for the blue brigade by defending nine runs off the last over in front of a settled Shane Watson.

KKR happy to retain the core team ahead of IPL 2021: Venky Mysore

Kolkata Knight Riders’ CEO and Managing Director Venky Mysore said that the unit was happy to have retained the core of their team for the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League. Reacting to the developments of the day, Mysore said, “We are very happy to have been able to retain our entire squad. Barring some fine tunings we have retained the same squad that we had last season, obviously led by captain Eoin Morgan, supported by DK” Naming the players like Australian pacer Pat Cummins, New Zealand quick Lockie Ferguson, and other players including the likes of Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, and Varun Chakravarthy he said that it was pleasing to have the same guys turning out to do better this season. “Retaining the nucleus makes our squad a very strong one, very balanced one. It was a very unfortunate last season that we missed out on the run rate and now we will regroup and come stronger this year,” Mysore added. Saying that he was happy with the current squad, the CEO didn’t rule out the fact that they would try and get a few more players to fit the bill in the mini-auction. “We will have some opportunity at the mini-auction to be held a little later and we will try and fine-tune a bit more then, for now, we are really looking forward to IPL 2021,” he said. Players not retained by KKR Tom Banton, Chris Green, Ali Khan, Nikhil Naik, Siddharth Manimaran, Harry Gurney, and Siddhesh Lad KKR retained squad Eoin Morgan (ENG) Dinesh Karthik, Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Rahul Tripathi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson (NZ), Pat Cummins (AUS), Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy, Andre Russell (WI), Sunil Narine (WI), Tim Seifert (NZ)

Rajasthan Royals release Steve Smith, starts new chapter with Sanju Samson as skipper

The Rajasthan Royals have let go Steve Smith who was the skipper of the team in the last edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) after a discussion that went down the wire in words of a franchise official. According to an ANI report, the decision to release Smith has been taken today only and that the franchise will appoint a new captain in the IPL 2021. Notably, Smith was handed over the captaincy of the team after Ajinkya Rahane was struggling to lead the side after the comeback from a two-year ban by the BCCI. The Royals had finished last on the points table of the league in IPL 2020 and hence the decision to let go Smith was always on the cards. On the other hand, the franchise which celebrated an early triumph in the inaugural edition of the league is contemplating options of retaining young players such as Kartik Tyagi, Mayank Markane and Mahipal Lomror. Earlier today, Harbhajan Singh was released by the Chennai Super Kings and there many more releases on cards from other teams as well.

Daily Round up | Jan 20: Suresh Raina to stay at CSK

CSK batsman Suresh Raina has been retained by the franchise for the IPL 2021 while Harbhajan Singh has said that his contract is over. Here we take a look at the day’s updates from the cricketing world. Suresh Raina to stay at CSK Former India player Suresh Raina who retired from international cricket on August 15 last year will stay at Chennai Super Kings. According to the official there are few players who are going to be released. Earlier, spinner Harbhajan Singh confirmed that his contract with CSK is over. “As my contract comes to an end with “Yes, we will retain Raina and Dhoni will be the captain. Apart from Harbhajan Singh, we might release a few more players,” the CSK official told The Indian Express. Harbhajan Singh to leave CSK Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh confirmed that his contract with CSK is over. “As my contract comes to an end with @ChennaiIPL, playing for this team was a great experience..beautiful memories made &some great friends which I will remember fondly for years to come..Thank you @ChennaiIPL, management, staff and fans for a wonderful 2years.. All the best..,” Harbhajan tweeted. Rishabh Pant attains highest rank India wicket-keeper batsman played some phenomenal cricket in Australia and the left-hander has been rewarded for the same. He has climbed to 13th spot—the highest by any wicket-keeper batsman in the latest rankings released by ICC. There can be a huge fall out: Shane Warne Former Aussie spinner Shane Warne feels that there cane be a “huge fallout” after the defeat in the Australian team. "I think there'll be a huge fallout from this. There's not too many times that you lose to the second or third (choice) side," Foxsports.com.au quoted Warne as saying. "That's not taking anything away from those Indian guys that played but their first selection side, there's probably only two or three players in that side who would play," he added. Melbourne Renegades beat Melbourne Stars Melbourne Renegades took the perfect revenge of the previous encounter against Melbourne Stars. Chasing 159 in 20 overs, renegades rode on Mackenzie Harvey 47* to go over the line. Harvey who was adjudged man of the match expressed his delight and said, “Can't put it into words, playing a derby at home. It was a good effort from the bowlers, it came off well today. A complete team performance. Like I said before, it's absolutely outstanding playing at home and winning.” Stars are now placed at number three with 24 points from 12 matches while Renegades are bottom placed with 13 points in 12 matches.