Decided to a quick look at the franchises and guess who they might retain. I worked on presumption they all retain 5 players but I suspect that they won't in the case of some franchises. Rules from before meant no more then 3 Indian capped players and no more then 2 Overseas players amongst the 5. Then have listed the remaining high profile available players in such a scenario.
Struggled most with CSK and KKR on who they might retain.
@honestbharani if CSK had to retain 5 players who do you think they would retain? On current form not sure I'd retain Dhoni but not sure I see CSK leaving him playing for them next season to chance. Raina and Jadeja high profile players and suspect they may get the nod even though Chahar and/or Thakur might be better value retentions for them.
DC - Pant, Iyer, Axar RTM - Rabada, Nortje
MI - Rohit, Bumrah, Hardik RTM - Pollard, Boult
RCB - Kohli, ABD, Sundar RTM - Chahal, Paddikal
SRH - Warner, Rashid, B Kumar RTM: Pandey, Natarajan
KKR: D Karthik, Russell, Gill RTM: Chakravarthy, Morgan
RR: Archer, Buttler, Samson RTM: Tewatia, Jaiswal
CSK: Dhoni, Jadeja, Raina RTM: Gaikwad, S Curran
KXIP: Rahul, Pooran, Shami RTM: Agarwal, Arshdeep
Remaining players
OP: Shaw, Dhawan, Rahane, Lynn, QdK, Roy, Bairstow, Saha, Tripathi, Vohra, Faf, Uthappa, Mandeep, Gayle
MOB: S Smith, Suryakumar, Kishan, Williamson, Samad, Rana, Miller, Rayudu, Sarfaraz, Hooda
AR: Maxwell, K Pandya, Stoinis, Jamieson, Shankar, Holder, Shakib, Morris, Gopal, Parag, Dube, Stokes, DJ Bravo, Moeen, Gowtham, Santner
SEAM: Ishant, U Yadav, NCN, Kulkarni, Sams, Saini, Siraj, Kaul, Sandeep, Thampi, Khaleel, Ferguson, Cummins, Mavi, P Krishna, Nagarkoti, Unadkat Tye, Tyagi, Sakariya, Thakur, Chahar, Hazlewood, Ngidi, J Richardson
SPIN: Ashwin, R Chahar, Nadeem, Mujeeb, Kuldeep, Narine, Markande, K Sharma, Bishnoi, M Ashwin
Really interested to see who KKR do end up retaining - I suspect some of the weaker franchises won't retain many players but worked on the assumption they all retain 3 and use 2 RTMs.
