The following from News 24:-
According to the NDTV Sports website, Pietersen, 34, whose contract was worth around £800 000, is one of 14 players leaving the IPL franchise in a clear out following their poor season last year.
Pietersen scored 294 runs in 11 matches at an average of 29.40 as the Daredevils finished last in the standings, wining only two of their 14 matches.
Pietersen, who captained Delhi last year, is able to enter the IPL auction early next year in a bid to find a new club but is unlikely to attract such a high deal.
Delhi have also released Yuvraj Singh, Ross Taylor, Dinesh Kartik and Murali Vijay, as well as South African duo Wayne Parnell and Imran Tahir.
Pietersen is currently in Australia playing for the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash. His county future is uncertain, too, after his registration was cancelled by Surrey last year.
Released players by IPL team:
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Amit Mishra, Aaron Finch, Darren Sammy, Irfan Pathan, Jason Holder, Y Venugopal Rao, Bernard Taylor, Prashant Parmeshwaran, Aniruddh Srikkanth, Manprit Juneja
Mumbai Indians
Zaheer Khan, Pragyan Ojha, Jalaj Saxena, CM Gautham, Sushant Marathe, Apurv Wankhede, Krishmar Santokie, Ben Dunk
Chennai Super Kings
Ben Hilfenhaus, John Hastings, Vijay Shankar, David Hussey
Delhi Daredevils
Kevin Pietersen, Murali Vijay, Dinesh Karthik, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ross Taylor, Jaydev Unadkat, Rahul Sharma, Jimmy Neesham, Siddharth Kaul, Wayne Parnell, Rahul Shukla, HS Sharath, Milind Kumar, Imran Tahir
Kings XI Punjab
Cheteshwar Pujara, L Balaji, Murali Kartik (retired)
Kolkata Knight Riders
Jacques Kallis (retired), R Vinay Kumar, Manvinder Bisla, Debabrata Das, Sayan Sekhar Mondal
Rajasthan Royals
Brad Hodge, Unmukt Chand, Iqbal Abdulla, Kevon Cooper, Ankit Sharma, Amit Sharma, Ankush Bains
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Yuvraj Singh, Albie Morkel, Parthiv Patel, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ravi Rampaul, Sachin Rana, Shadab Jakati, Tanmay Mishra"
Comments
The IPL is where players make the BIG MONEY - so I was looking at the SA PLayers to miss out. Could only find 3 names - namely Kallis - who has taken a batting coaching job with Kolkatta and Wayne Parnell as well as Albie Morkel.
The following players have been retained by the various franchises:-
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Dale Steyn
Chennai Super Kings
Faf du Plessis
Delhi Daredevils
Quinton de KockRillee RossouwJP Duminy
Kolkata Knight Riders
Morne Morkel
Kings XI Punjab
David Miller
Royal Challengers Bangalore
AB de Villiers
As I understand the system - the players who have been released can be bid on during the bidding phase - also those who has not been released, but in the latter case the clubs have the right to match any bid made by any other club and thus retain the players concerned. .
I believe the asking price for players like AB and Dale is way above $1 100 000 for the 8 week tournament, while Morne and Fa is in the $700 000 to $ 1 000 000 range and the rest are basically in the $400 000 to $600 000 range.
Amla did not make hilsef available for the tournament. It would be interesting to see which SA players will be contracted this year. This is the tournament where players enhance their annual income to the range R11 000 000 to R15 000 000 per year.
