Pepsi IPL 2015 Teams, Released Players, Opening Ceremony Pics and More

INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE 2015 is going to begin now, all teams are ready with their stars. The teams for the IPL 2015 are:

Get a hold of the Pepsi IPL 2015 Schedule here

Chennai Super Kings (2015)

• MS Dhoni (Retained Player)
• Ravindra Jadeja (Retained Player)
• Ravichandran Ashwin (Retained Player)
• Dwayne Bravo (Retained Player)
• Suresh Raina (Retained Player)
• Faf Du Plessis
• Dwayne Smith
• Brendon McCullum
• Ashish Nehra
• Mohit Sharma
• Ishwar Chandra Pandey
• Samuel Badree
• Matt Henry
• Mithun Manhas
• Ronit More
• Baba Aparajith
• Pawan Negi
• Michael Hussey
• Rahul Sharma
• Kyle Abbott
• Irfan Pathan
• Pratyush Singh
• Ankush Bains
• Eklavya Dwivedi
• Andrew Tye

CSK IPL 2015 (Released Players):David Hussey, Ben Hilfenhaus, John Hastings, Vijay Shankar.

Rajasthan Royals(2015)

• Shane Watson (Retained Player)
• James Faulkner (Retained Player)
• Stuart Binny (Retained Player)
• Ajinkya Rahane (Retained Player)
• Sanju Samson (Retained Player)
• Steven Smith
• Rajat Bhatia
• Tim Southee
• Dhawal Kulkarni
• Abhishek Nayar
• Kane Richardson
• Ben Cutting
• Karun Nair
• Unmukt Chand
• Iqbal Abdullah
• Deepak Hooda
• Dishant Yagnik
• Kevon Cooper
• Vikramjeet Malik
• Ankit Nagendra Sharma
• Rahul Tewatia
• Pravin Tambe
• Chris Morris
• Juan Theron
• Barinder Singh Saran
• Dinesh Salunkhe
• Sagar Trivedi
• Pardeep Sahu

Rajasthan Royals (Released Players): Amit Mishra, Ankush Bains, Brad Hodge.

Sunrisers Hyderabad

• Shikhar Dhawan (Retained Player)
• Dale Steyn (Retained Player)
• David Warner
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar
• Karn Sharma
• Ishant Sharma
• Moises Henriques
• KL Rahul
• Parveez Rasool
• Naman Ojha
• Ashish Reddy
• Ricky Bhui
• Chama Milind
• Kevin Pietersen
• Eoin Morgan
• Kane Williamson
• Ravi Bopara
• Laxmi Ratan Shukla
• Praveen Kumar
• Trent Boult
• Hanuma Vihari
• Prasanth Padmanabha
• Siddarth Kaul

Sunrisers Hyderabad (Released Players): Aaron Finch, Amit Mishra, Amit Paunikar, Brendan Taylor, Darren Sammy, Irfan Pathan, Jason Holder, Manprit Juneja, Prasanth Parameswaran, Srikkanth Anirudha, Venugopal Rao.

Mumbai Indians

• Rohit Sharma (Retained Player)
• Lasith Malinga (Retained Player)
• Harbhajan Singh (Retained Player)
• Ambati Rayudu (Retained Player)
• Kieron Pollard (Retained Player)
• Corey Anderson
• Aditya Tare
• Jasprit Bumrah
• Josh Hazlewood
• Marchant De Lange
• Pawan Suyal
• Shreyas Gopal
• Aaron Finch
• Pragyan Ojha
• Mitchell McClenaghan
• Akshay Wakhare
• Aiden Blizzard
• Hardik Pandya
• Siddhesh Lad
• J Suchith
• Nitish Rana
• Abhimanyu Mithun

Mumbai Indians (Released Players): Michael Hussey, Praveen Kumar, Ben Dunk, Pragyan Ojha, Jalaj Saxena, Krismar Santokie, Sushant Marathe, Apoorv Wankhade, Zaheer Khan, C.M. Gautam.

 Royal Challengers Bangalore

• Virat Kohli (Retained Player)
• Chris Gayle (Retained Player)
• AB De Villiers (Retained Player)
• Mitchell Starc
• Varun Aaron
• Ashok Dinda
• Parthiv Patel
• Nic Maddinson
• Harshal Patel
• Vijay Zol
• Abu Nechim Ahmed
• Sandeep Warrier
• Yogesh Takawale
• Yuzvendra Singh Chahal
• Dinesh Karthik
• Subramaniam Badrinath
• Darren Sammy
• Sean Abbott
• Adam Milne
• David Wiese
• Jalaj Saxena
• Sarfaraz Naushad Khan
• Shishir Bhavane

Royal Challengers Bangalore (Released Players): Albie Morkel, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ravi Rampaul, Sachin Rana, Shadab Jakati, Tanmay Mishra, Yuvraj Singh.

Kolkata Knight Riders

• Gautam Gambhir (R’etained Player)
• Sunil Narine (Retained Player)
• Robin Uthappa
• Piyush Chawla
• Yusuf Pathan
• Shakib Al Hasan
• Morne Morkel
• Vinay Kumar
• Umesh Yadav
• Manish Pandey
• Chris Lynn
• Patrick Cummins
• Ryan Ten Doeschate
• Suryakumar Yadav
• Andre Russell
• Manvinder Bisla
• Veer Pratap Singh
• Kuldeep Singh Yadav
• James Neesham
• Brad Hogg
• Aditya Garhwal
• Sumit Narwal
• KC Cariappa
• Vaibhav Rawal
• Sheldon Jackson

Kolkata Knight Riders (Released Players): Debabrata Das, Sayan Sekhar Mandal, Jacques Kallis.

Kings XI Punjab

• Manan Vohra (Retained Player)
• David Miller (Retained Player)
• Mitchell Johnson
• Glenn Maxwell
• George Bailey
• Virender Sehwag
• Rishi Dhawan
• Wriddhiman Saha
• Shaun Marsh
• Beuran Hendricks
• Thisara Perera
• Gurkirat Singh Mann
• Sandeep Sharma
• Mandeep Hardev Singh
• Akshar Rajesh Patel
• Parvinder Awana
• Shardul Narendra Thakur
• Anureet Singh
• Shivam Sharma
• Karanveer Singh
• Murali Vijay
• Nikhil Naik
• Yogesh Golwalkar

Kings XI Punjab (Released Players): Cheteshwar Pujara, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Murali Kartik.

Delhi Daredevils

• Mohammad Shami
• Nathan Coulter-Nile
• Quinton De Kock
• Manoj Tiwary
• Jean-Paul Duminy
• Kedar Jadhav
• Mayank Agarwal
• Shahbaz Nadeem
• Saurabh Tiwary
• Jayant Yadav
• Milind Kumar
• Angelo Mathews
• Yuvraj Singh
• Amit Mishra
• Jaydev Unadkat
• Gurinder Sandhu
• Shreyas Iyer
• CM Gautam
• Dominic Muthuswamy
• Albie Morkel
• Travis Head
• Marcus Stoinis
• Kona Srikar Bharat
• KK Jiyaz
• Zaheer Khan

Delhi Daredevils (Released Players): Dinesh Karthik, HS Sharath, James Neesham, Jaydev Unadkat, Kevin Pietersen, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Milind Kumar, Murali Vijay, Rahul Sharma, Rahul Shukla, Ross Taylor, Siddarth Kaul, Wayne Parnell.