RR Players List IPL 2021: Full Rajasthan Royals Squad for IPL 2021

Rajasthan Royals will be desperate to bounce back in IPL 2021 after a disastrous campaign in the last season. The inaugural winners of the tournament struggled for consistency throughout the season and eventually finished at the bottom of the points table with 6 wins. Following yet another failure, the franchise took some tough decisions with an eye on overhauling the squad.

Before the auction, they released their skipper Steve Smith and replaced him with their long-serving batsman Sanju Samson. Smith had failed to impress with the bat as well as his captaincy in IPL 2020. Talking about the squad, Rajasthan Royals retained a total of 16 players and traded veteran opener Robin Uthappa to Chennai Super Kings.

Among the Indian players, the likes of Samson, Shreyas Gopal, Riyan Parag, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror, Kartik Tyagi, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat and Manan Vohra were retained. Along with them, five overseas players – Jofra Archer, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, David Miller and Andrew Tye were also retained.

The Royals also released eight players with Smith’s release being the highlight. Along with the Australian, the other overseas players who were released by the franchise were – Oshane Thomas and Tom Curran. Apart from three overseas players, five Indian players were also shown the door by the Royals – Ankit Rajpoot, Akash Singh, Varun Aaron, Anirudha Joshi, Shashank Singh.

New additions and the full squad

Rajasthan Royals went into the auction with a total of nine vacancies in their squad and a purse of Rs 37.85 crore. They finished the auction with eight signings. The Royals started the day by creating history as they signed Chris Morris for a whopping price of Rs 16.25 and made him the most expensive player in the history of IPL auction. The Royals signed another all-rounder in Shivam Dube for Rs 4.40 crore.

The Royals’ middle and order had failed to deliver last year and the likes of Morris and Dube could solve their problems. The Rajasthan-based outfit further bought Bangladesh pacer, Mustafizur Rahman, for Rs 1 crore. The experienced left-arm pacer would provide some much-needed solidity to the Royals’ fast-bowling lineup.

Their third and last overseas signing was their former player and England batsman Liam Livingstone. The other signings were – Chetan Sakariya (INR 1.20 Cr), KC Cariappa (INR 20 L), Kuldip Yadav (INR 20 L), Akash Singh (INR 20 L)

Rajasthan Royals squad for IPL 2021:

Sanju Samson (c & wk), Jos Buttler (wk), Ben Stokes, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Manan Vohra, Anuj Rawat, Riyan Parag, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror, Shreyas Gopal, Mayank Markande, Jofra Archer, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Kartik Tyagi, Shivam Dube, Chris Morris, Mustafizur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya, KC Cariappa, Liam Livingstone, Kuldip Yadav, Akash Singh