INDIA: Australia’s Pat Cummins became the most expensive foreign player in the history of league cricket after being acquired by the Kolkata Knight Riders for a whopping $2.18 million on Thursday.
Some 1000 players were put up for auction in the Indian Premium League (IPL) auction where Eight Franchises bid to fill up the 73 positions in their squads.
Many star players such as Virat Kohli, Ben Stokes and David Warner have already been retained by their previous teams so they were not included in the today’s auction.
Highest Purchases
- 1. Pat Cummins, Kolkata Knight Riders, $2.18 million
- 2. Glenn Maxwell, Kings XI Punjab, $1.51 million
- 3. Chris Morris, Royal Challengers Bangalore, $1.41 million
- 4. Sheldon Cottrell, Kings XI Punjab, $1.20 million
- 5. Nathan Coulter-Nile, Mumbai Indians, $1.20 million
- 6. Shimron Hetmyer, Delhi Capitals, $1.09 million
IPL Squads
The full squads of all the 8 teams stack up after the auction:
Chennai Super Kings
Existing players retained: Shane Watson, Ambati Rayudu, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, Kedar Jadhav, N Jagadeesan, M Vijay, Rituraj Gaikwad, MS Dhoni (Captain, wk), Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, Monu Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, KM Asif
Players bought at Auction: Piyush Chawla, Sam Curran, Josh Hazlewood, R Sai Kishore
Delhi Capitals
Existing players retained: Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Prithvi Shaw, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk), Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, R Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Sandeep Lamichhane, Kagiso Rabada, Ishant Sharma, Keemo Paul, Avesh Khan
Players bought at Auction: Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Alex Carey, Jason Roy, Chris Woakes, Mohit Sharma, Tushar Deshpande, Lalit Yadav
Kings XI Punjab
Existing players retained: KL Rahul (wk), Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair, Mandeep Singh, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Murugan Ashwin, Mujeeb-ur-Rahman, K. Gowtham, J. Suchith, Harpreet Brar, Mohammed Shami, Hardus Viljoen, Arshdeep Singh, Darshan Nalkande
Players bought at Auction: Glenn Maxwell, Sheldon Cottrell, Ravi Bishnoi, Prabhsimran Singh, Deepak Hooda , James Neesham , Ishan Porel, Chris Jordan, Tajinder Dhillon
Kolkata Knight Riders
Existing players retained: Shubman Gill, Siddesh Lad, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Rinku Singh, Nitish Rana, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Harry Gurney, Lockie Ferguson, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier
Players bought at Auction: Pat Cummins, Eoin Morgan, Varun Chakravarthy, Tom Banton, Rahul Tripathi, Pravin Tambe, M Siddharth, Chris Green, Nikhil Naik
Mumbai Indians
Existing players retained: Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Quinton de Kock (wk), Aditya Tare (wk), Anmolpreet Singh, Kieron Pollard, Ishan Kishan (wk), Sherfane Rutherford, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Lasith Malinga, Trent Boult, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mitchell McClenaghan
Players bought at Auction: Nathan Coulter-Nile, Chris Lynn, Saurabh Tiwary, Mohsin Khan, Digvijay Deshmukh, Prince Balwant Rai Singh
Rajasthan Royals
Existing players retained: Jos Buttler (wk), Steve Smith, Sanju Samson (wk), Manan Vohra, Riyan Parag, Ben Stokes, Mahipal Lomror, Shashank Singh, Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Tewatia, Mayank Markande, Jofra Archer, Ankit Rajpoot, Varun Aaron
Players bought at Auction: Robin Uthappa, Jaydev Unadkat, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Kartik Tyagi, Andrew Tye, Tom Curran, Anuj Rawat, David Miller, Oshane Thomas, Aakash Singh, Anirudha Joshi
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Existing players retained: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Devdutt Padikkal, Parthiv Patel (wk), Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Siraj
Players bought at Auction: Chris Morris, Aaron Finch, Dale Steyn , Dale Steyn, Kane Richardson (Rs 1.5 Crores), Isuru Udana, Joshua Philippe, Pavan Deshpande
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Existing players retained: David Warner, Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Manish Pandey, Sreevats Goswami (wk), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Vijay Shankar, Mohammad Nabi, Abhishek Sharma, Rashid Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Basil Thampi, T. Natarajan, Billy Stanlake
Players bought at Auction: Mitchell Marsh, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh, Fabian Allen, Sandeep Bavanaka, Abdul Samad, Sanjay Yadav
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