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IPL Auction 2023 GT Live update: Gujarat Titans captain, retained player, Squad, batting & bowling coach, the defender champions of IPL, have shifted gears to kick off their campaign for the IPL season 2023. They have currently 7 vacancies in their squads, out of which 3 seats are reserved for overseas players. They have released a total of 6 players while retaining 18 players from the previous squad. They have also retained Hardik Pandya as the team’s captain for the IPL season 2023. This year, 991 players have registered for the IPL auction, and GT would be looking forward to purchasing 7 of them featuring on the long list.

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GT Retain Player - 18

GT Overseas Retain Player - 5

GT Total Money Spent - 75.75 Cr

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GT Remaining Purse - 19.25 Cr

GT Available Slots - 7

GT Overseas Available Slots - 3

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The list of retained players by the Gujarat Titans (GT)

Gujarat Titans have retained a total of 18 players from the IPL season 2022 squad. It means that they will continue to play under the flag of Gujarat Titans, and no other IPL team will be able to include these players in their squads. Names of all retained players by the Gujarat Titans team are given here:

Aiden Markram                          INR 2.60 Crores 

Rahul Tripathi                            INR 8.50 Crores

Glenn Phillips (wk)                    INR 1.50 Crores

Umran Malik                              INR 4Cr

Fazal Haq Farooqi                    INR 50 Lakhs

Kartik Tyagi                               INR 4 Crores

T Natarajan                               INR 4 Crores

Bhuvneshwar Kumar                INR 4.20 Crores

Abdul Samad                            INR 4Cr

Marco Jansen                           INR 4.20 Crores

Abhishek Sharma                     INR 6.50 Crores

Washington Sundar                  INR 8.75 Crores

The list of released players by the Gujarat Titans (GT)

Gujarat Titans have released a total of 6 players. It means that these players won’t be able to play for the Gujarat Titans team in IPL 2023 season. And these players will be up for grabs for the other 9 IPL teams of the tournament. Names of all released players by the Gujarat Titans team are given here:

  1. Rahmanullah Gurbaz
  2. Lockie Ferguson
  3. Dominic Drakes
  4. Gurkeerat Singh
  5. Jason Roy
  6. Varun Aaron

Available balance with the Gujarat Titans (GT)

Gujarat Titans have already spent 75.75 Cr rupees on retaining the 18 players mentioned above. It needs to fill the vacancy of 7 players in its squads with the remaining balance of 19.25 Cr. In the IPL auction 2023, each team is subject to a total salary cap of INR 95 crores. This amount is 5 Cr more than the previous season.

Gujarat Titans’ new captain, batting and bowling coach details

The squad, Gujarat Titans is coached by Ashish Nehra. The team has retained Hardik Pandya as the team’s captain. The batting coach of the Gujarat Titans team is Gary Kirsten. While the spin bowling coach of GT is Aashish Kapoor.