IPL 2022 Mega Auction:The players' list incorporates 270 capped, 903 uncapped and 41 Associate players. (FILE)IPL Players Auction 2021 Highlights: Chris Morris (RR) became the costliest ever player at an IPL auction while Krishnappa Gowtham (CSK) became the costliest Indian uncapped player at the IPL 2021 auction. Cheteshwar Pujara was sold to Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians acquired Arjun Tendulkar.
A total of 292 players were enlisted for the shortened auctions — 164 of them Indian and 125 overseas. With the IPL back in India after being held in the UAE last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the focus will be on big-hitters as well as slow bowlers.
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Tasmanian quick Riley Meredith was a surprise pick of sorts when Punjab Kings shelled out Rs 8 crores to acquire his signature while Cheteshwar Pujara finally has an IPL home after six years in the wilderness. (READ MORE)
On the day he became a crorepati within a few minutes of intense bidding at the IPL 2021 auction, Rajasthan Royals’ new signing, Chetan Sakariya, had one regret. Just last month, he had lost his younger brother, who he was very close to. He says that the unexpected windfall of Rs 1.20 crore will change his life but he still felt empty. (READ MORE)
On Thursday, Zinta's team pocketed Tamil Nadu’s swashbuckling middle-order batsman M Shahrukh Khan for Rs 5.25 crore. And that became the story of the IPL 2021 auction, once again triggering Bollywood meets cricket, and Veer meets Zara, references on social media. (READ MORE)
The IPL franchises spend exorbitant amounts on over-the-hill, untested, and inconsistent foreigners to plug holes in their squads.
Morris' recent numbers and injury history suggest a man stuttering towards the back end of his career. Jamieson, Maxwell, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Curran and Henriques - none of them are cricketing immortals. (READ MORE)
KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS: Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Tim Seifert (wk), Rahul Tripathi, Rinku Singh, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Eoin Morgan (c), Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun CV, Kuldeep Yadav, Pat Cummins, Lockie Ferguson, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Sandeep Warrier, Prasidh Krishna, Shakib Al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson, Vaibhav Arora, Karun Nair, Harbhajan Singh, Ben Cutting, Venkatesh Iyer, Pawan Negi
MUMBAI INDIANS: Rohit Sharma (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Chris Lynn, Saurabh Tiwary, Anmolpreet Singh, Aditya Tare (wk), Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan, Adam Milne, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Piyush Chawla, James Neesham, Yudhvir Charak, Marco Jansen, Arjun Tendulkar
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE: Virat Kohli (c), Devdutt Padikkal, Josh Philippe (wk), AB de Villiers (wk), Pavan Deshpande, Washington Sundar, Daniel Sams, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Kane Richardson, Harshal Patel, Glenn Maxwell, Sachin Baby, Rajat Patidar, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Kyle Jamieson, Daniel Christian, Suyash Prabhudessai, K.S. Bharat
RAJASTHAN ROYALS: 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
CHENNAI SUPER KINGS: Faf du Plessis, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, N. Jagadeesan (wk), Robin Uthappa, MS Dhoni (c&wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo, Karn Sharma, R. Sai Kishore, Mitchell Santner, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Lungi Ngidi, Josh Hazlewood, KM Asif, Moeen Ali, K Gowtham, Cheteshwar Pujara, M Harisankar Reddy, K. Bhagath Varma, C Hari Nishanth
DELHI CAPITALS: Shreyas Iyer (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant (wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Chris Woakes, R Ashwin, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Lalit Yadav, Pravin Dubey, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Avesh Khan, Steve Smith, Umesh Yadav, Ripal Patel, Vishnu Vinod, Lukman Meriwala, M Siddarth, Tom Curran, Sam Billings
SUNRISERS HYDERABAD: David Warner (c), Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Manish Pandey, Sreevats Goswami (wk), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Priyam Garg, Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Virat Singh, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T. Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Siddarth Kaul, Basil Thampi, Jagadeesha Suchith, Kedar Jadhav, Mujeeb-ur-Rahman
PUNJAB KINGS: KL Rahul (c&wk), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Mandeep Singh, Prabsimran Singh, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Murugan Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Harpreet Brar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ishan Porel, Darshan Nalkande, Chris Jordan, Dawid Malan, Jhye Richardson, Shahrukh Khan, Riley Meredith, Moises Henriques, Jalaj Saxena, Utkarsh Singh, Fabian Allen , Saurabh Kumar
In case you missed it, here are the five players which made franchises break the bank.
1. Chris Morris - Rs. 16.25 crore (RR)
2. Kyle Jameison - Rs. 15 crore (RCB)
3. Glenn Maxwell - Rs. 14.25 crore (RCB)
4. Jhye Richardson - Rs. 14 crore (PBSK)
5. K. Gowtham - Rs. 9.25 crore (CSK)
IPL Auction 2021 came up with a lot of talking points in Chennai on Thursday with Chris Morris becoming the most expensive buy in the IPL auction history. The 33-year-old’s big payday at Rajasthan Royals for Rs 16.25 crore came after another all-rounder, Glenn Maxwell, once again managed to attract a winning Rs 14.25 crore bid from Royal Challengers Bangalore. | READ MORE HERE |
The last name in the auction -- Arjun Tendulkar goes to Mumbai Indians. No other team bids for him.
Hanuma Vihari UNSOLD
Venkatesh Iyer SOLD to KKR for 20L
Pawan Negi SOLD to KKR for 50L
Akash Singh SOLD to Rajasthan Royals for 20L
Hari Nishaanth SOLD to CSK for 20L
Ben Cutting SOLD to KKR for 75L
Saurabh Kumar SOLD to Punjab for 20L
Karun Nair SOLD to KKR for 50L
Kedar Jadhav SOLD to SRH for 2 cr
Sam Billings SOLD to DC for 2 cr
Harbhajan Singh SOLD to KKR for 2 cr
Mujeeb ur Rahman SOLD to SRH for 1.5 cr
Wayne Parnell UNSOLD
Reece Topley UNSOLD
Chris Green UNSOLD
Isiru Udana UNSOLD
George Linde UNSOLD
Chaitanya Bishnoi UNSOLD
Yudhvir Charak SOLD to MI for 20L
Ajay Dev Goud UNSOLD
Bhagvath Varma SOLD to CSK for 20L
Jack Wildermuth UNSOLD
Harsh Tyagi UNSOLD
Gerald Coetzee UNSOLD
Tim David UNSOLD
Marco Jansen SOLD to MI for 20L
Liam Livingstone SOLD to Royals for 75L
Thisara Perera UNSOLD
Ben Mcdermott UNSOLD
Matthew Wade UNSOLD
Sean Abbott UNSOLD
Siddhesh Lad UNSOLD
Tarjinder Dhillon UNSOLD
Prerak Mankad UNSOLD
Suyash Prabhudessai SOLD to RCB at 20L
KS Bharat SOLD to RCB at 20L
Josh Inglis UNSOLD
Harisankar Reddy SOLD to CSK at 20L
Simarjeet Singh UNSOLD
Kuldip Yadav SOLD to RR at 20L
Scott Kuggleijn UNSOLD
Jimmy Neesham SOLD to MI at 20L
Fabian Allen is SOLD to Punjab Kings for 75 L. That is their last overseas pick.
Daniel Christian draws interest from both KKR and RCB. His price shoots up now. Over 3 crore ... over 4... and it is RCB who get him, for 4.8 cr.
Jalaj Saxena - Punjab Kings for 30 L
Karan Sharma UNSOLD
Utkarsh Singh - Punjab Kings for 20 L
KL Shrijith UNSOLD
Vaibhav Arora - KKR for 20 L
Ben Dwarshius UNSOLD
Kohli, de Villiers, Padikkal, Sundar, Chahal, Siraj, Saini, Pavan Deshpande, Shahbaz Ahamad, Harshal Patel, Josh Philippe, Zampa, Richardson, Daniel Sams
? Glenn Maxwell, Sachin Baby, Rajat Patidar, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Kyle Jamieson
Morgan, Karthik, Gill, Nitish Rana, Seifert, Rinku Singh, Russell, Narine, Kuldeep, Shivam Mavi, Lockie Ferguson, Cummins, Nagarkoti, Sandeep Warrier, Prasidh Krishna, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy
? Shakib Al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson
Iyer, Dhawan, Pant, Shaw, Rahane, Ishant, Hetmyer, Stoinis, Axar, Avesh Khan, Ashwin, Lalit Yadav, Pravin Dubey, Rabada, Nortje, Woakes.
? Steve Smith, Umesh Yadav, Ripal Patel, Vishnu Vinod, Lukman Hussain Meriwala, M Siddharth, Tom Curran
Williamson, Bairstow, Warner, Bhuvneshwar, Pandey, Shankar, Goswami, Rashid, Nabi, Marsh, Holder, Wriddhiman, Abhishek, Khaleel, Sandeep, Kaul, Nadeem, Thampi, Natarajan, Virat, Garg, Abdul Samad
? J Suchith
Samson, Buttler, Vohra, Riyan Parag, Stokes, Shreyas Gopal, Mahipal Lomror, Miller, Markande, Tewatia, Unadkat, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, Kartik Tyagi, Archer, Tye
? Shivam Dube, Chris Morris, Mustafizur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya, KC Cariappa
Rahul, Agarwal, Gayle, Mandeep, Pooran, Sarfraz, Shami, Murugan Ashwin, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Darshan Nalkande, Hooda, Porel, Bishnoi, Prabhsimran Singh, Jordan.
? Dawid Malan, Jhye Richardson, Shahrukh Khan, Riley Meredith, Moises Henriques
CSK: INR 3.15 crore remaining. No overseas slots. 3 slots overall remaining
DC: INR 4.15 crore remaining. 1 overseas slot. 1 slot overall remaining
KKR: INR 7.35 crore remaining. 1 overseas slots. 6 slots overall remaining
MI: INR 4.75 crore remaining. 2 overseas slots. 4 slots overall remaining
PK: INR 20.25 crore remaining. 1 overseas slot. 4 slots overall remaining
RR: INR 14.8 crore remaining. 1 overseas slots. 4 slots overall remaining
RCB: INR 5.55 crore remaining. 1 overseas slot. 6 slots overall remaining
SRH: INR 10.45 crore remaining. 1 overseas slots. 2 slots overall remaining
Tom Curran SOLD to DC for Rs 5.25 crore
Gurkeerat Singh UNSOLD
Marnus Labuschagne UNSOLD
Varun Aaron UNSOLD
Oshane Thomas UNSOLD
Mohit Sharma UNSOLD
Billy Stanlake UNSOLD
Mitchell McClenaghan UNSOLD
Jason Behrendorff UNSOLD
Auction will resume after a 45-minute tea break.
Pawan Negi and Martin Guptill go UNSOLD. Kyle Jamieson is up next. He was touted to have been one of the biggest names in today's auction. RCB and DC enter the fray. RCB take the lead at 7 crore. Punjab Kings now enter the battle. Over 15 crore now. Jamieson has overtaken Maxwell... and RCB win this battle. Kyle Jamieson SOLD to RCB for 15 crore.
Rovman Powell UNSOLD
Shaun Marsh UNSOLD
Corey Anderson UNSOLD
Devon Conway UNSOLD
Darren Bravo UNSOLD
Rassie van der Dussen UNSOLD
Cheteshwar Pujara SOLD to CSK at 50L
CSK: INR 3.65 crore remaining. No overseas slots. 4 slots overall remaining
DC: INR 9.4 crore remaining. 2 overseas slots. 2 slots overall remaining
KKR: INR 7.35 crore remaining. 1 overseas slots. 6 slots overall remaining
MI: INR 4.75 crore remaining. 2 overseas slots. 4 slots overall remaining
PK: INR 24.45 crore remaining. 2 overseas slots. 5 slots overall remaining
RR: INR 14.8 crore remaining. 1 overseas slots. 4 slots overall remaining
RCB: INR 20.55 crore remaining. 2 overseas slots. 7 slots overall remaining
SRH: INR 10.45 crore remaining. 1 overseas slots. 2 slots overall remaining
Tushar Deshpande UNSOLD
Karanveer Singh UNSOLD
Manimaran Siddharth, left arm spinner, goes to DC for 20L
J Suchith goes to SRH for 30L
KC Cariappa goes to RR for 20L
Sandeep Lamichhane UNSOLD
Australian pacer Riley Meredith finds takers in plenty. Punjab and DC go in hard at having him. Punjab in the lead at 7.5 cr. Some more fight from Delhi but its Preity Zinta and team who hold on.
Meredith SOLD to Punjab Kings for 8 crore
Mujtaba Yousuf, Ankit Rajpoot go Unsold. Lukman Meriwala i sold to DC for 20L. Saurashtra left-arm seamer Chetan Sakariya starts a bidding war between RCB and RR.
Chetan Sakariya sold to Royals for 1.2 crore
Vivek Singh goes UNSOLD
Vishnu Vinod - DC for 20 L
Sheldon Jackson - KKR for 20 L
Kedar Devdhar goes UNSOLD
Mohammed Azharudden - RCB for 20L
Avi Barot goes UNSOLD
Ayush Badoni, Iyer Venkatesh and Vivek Singh go unsold. KKR makes opening bid for Karnataka's Krishnappa Gowtham. The base price was 20 lakh, but SRH and KKR have a bidding war. But CSK swoops in late and get their man for Rs 9.25 crore.
Shahrukh Khan goes to Punjab Kings at Rs. 5.25 Crore! RCB and PBKS were in it for quite some time, but it's Punjab's win.
Moving to a new set which is of uncapped batsmen now. Sachin Baby sold to RCB at base price of Rs 20 lakh. Himanshu Rana, C Hari Nishanth, Rahul Gaulat and Ajit Sheth go unsold. Both Rajat Patidar and Ripal Patel are sold to RCB and DC for Rs 20 lakh.
Mumbai Indians get the third-highest wicket-taker in IPL history! Piyush Chawla is sold for Rs 2.4 crore after a war with Delhi.
After the pacers, the time comes for the spinners now. Harbhajan Singh, Adil Rashid, Ish Sodhi, Mujeeb ur Rahman go unsold.
Sheldon Cottrell goes UNSOLD. Umesh Yadav is then sold for his base price - 1 crore - to DC.
Nathan Coulter Nile also gets some big bids. Delhi in the lead to 3.6 crore. Mumbai back in the lead at 4.2 crore. MI win this battle.
Coulter Nile SOLD to MI for 5 crore
Mustafizur Rahman goes for Rs 1 crore to Rajasthan Royals. But then there is a war for Jhye RIchardson. DC, RCB, Punjab make it a three-way battle for him. He started at 1.5 crore, but his price is rocketing up now. It is Punjab who win this battle, with RCB backing out at 14 crore. Richardson sold to Punjab Kings for 14 crores.
Adam Milne is the first fast bowler to go for bidding. MI and RR look to swoop in on him, his price goes rocketing too, from what was just 50 lakh. And it is MI who win this battle.
Milne sold to MI for 3.2 crore
Alex Carey, Sam Billings go UNSOLD. Kusal Perera up next. At a more modest 50 lakh. Also UNSOLD. The fast bowlers are up next.
Glenn Phillips, at 50 lakh, is the first player to go up for bidding after the restart of the auction. And he is UNSOLD.
Dawid Malan is sold to Punjab Kings for his opening bid - 1.5 crore.
Chris Morris is now the most expensive player in IPL history. He breaks Yuvraj Singh's record of 16 crore.
SA allrounder Chris Morris starts a war too. He enters at 75 lakh. But MI and RCB go hammer and tongs at each other to get him on board. The bid rises - MI in the lead at 5 crore ... RCB take it back at 6 crore... MI regain the lead at 8 crore ... And again MI regain the lead at 10 crore. This is madness territory now. And now RR enter the battle! RR in the lead at 10.75, RCB seem to have backed out, but MI continue going hard. RR regain the lead at 11.75. MI again in the lead at 13 crore, with RR their adversary now. Oh! And now Punab enter the fray at 13.5 crore. We cross 15 crore! Chris Morris is the most expensive by at this auction so far. RR regain the lead at 15.5. Punjab take it to 16 crore. RR take it 16.25. And they win this one!
Morris is sold to RR for 16.5 crore
Shivam Dube starts a war too! The battles are heating up in this auction. SRH make their gravel heard for the first time today! But RR are in for Dube too. Dube started at 50 lakh but SRH take him up to 3.4 crore. And then DC enter the fray. 3.8 crore. But then it's RR who swoop in to take their man - 4.4 crore.
Shivam Dube sold to RR for 4.4 crore
Moeen Ali enters the fray at 2 crore and Punjab wade into battle. They let go of Shakib, they do not want to let Moeen go too. CSK enter the fray at 3 crore. Punjab Kings definitely do not want to see another spinner pass them by - they take it up to 4 crore. But CSK are a team who do not let go once they are in a battle! They take Moeen for 7 crore.
Moeen Ali SOLD to CSK for 7 crore
Shakib al Hasan invites another tussle. KKR make the opening bid at 2 crore. Punjab Kings join in. But it's KKR who hold out.
Shakib sold to KKR for 3.2 crore
Former CSK man Kedar Jadhav finds no takers at 2 crore.
This is interesting! Glenn Maxwell. Base price: 2 crore. KKR bid for him. RR join in. KKR in the lead at 3 crore. RCB join in the war even as RR back out. 4 crore! And now CSK join in, with the price going up to 4.4 crore. CSK go up to 6.5 crore, with RCB also not letting go. RR and KKR seem to have backed out. CSK regain the lead from RCB at 7.5 crore. RCB still do not let go! 10 crores the amount now! RCB want to win this! 11.25 they go up to. CSK not letting go either. 13.5 we go up to and neither team lets go. The other teams are watching on as the madness unfolds. Finally, it is CSK who blink.
Maxwell sold to RCB for 14.25 crore
Evin Lewis, Aaron FInch and Hanuma Vihari are the last players from this set and all of them go unsold. Only Steve Smith has been sold from the first set. Of course, all these players may be picked up in subsequent rounds.
Steve Smith has his base price at 2 crore. And we have our first bidding war of the day! RCB bid for him. 2 crore they bid. DC enter the fray. 2.2 crore. And that is the end of a very short war!
Smith sold to DC for 2.2 crore
Alex Hales is up next. 1.5 crore his base price. Again, UNSOLD. His former opening partner Jason Roy. 2 crore his base price. Also, UNSOLD.
India and Karnataka batsman Karun Nair is first up. He has set his base price at INR 50 lakh. And he is UNSOLD.
Here are the players who will be auctioned in the first set: Aaron Finch, Alex Hales, Evin Lewis, Karun Nair, Jason Roy, Steve Smith and Hanuma Vihari. Smith and Roy are in the top bracket, listing their base prices at INR 2 crore.
A total of 252 players will go under the hammer todat: 164 Indian players, 125 overseas players and three players from associate nations.
It's time to raise the paddle!
Here is the detailed break up of the funds available for all the eight teams--
List of players retained– Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma, R Ashwin, Lalit Yadav, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, Pravin Dubey, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Woakes, Daniel Sams.
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), having been on a stellar run in recent years, are one of the teams to have retained most of their players.
List of players retained– David Warner (c), Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha, Abdul Samad, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will be one of the teams to have a new look in the next IPL season, with some big names having been released.
List of players retained– Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Yuzvendra Chahal, Devdutt Padikkal, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa, Josh Philippe, Shahbaz Ahmed and Pavan Deshpande.
Kolkata Knight Riders have released five players and retained 17 players ahead of the auction.
List of players retained– Eoin Morgan, Dinesh Karthik, Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Rahul Tripathi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Pat Cummins, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakaravarthy, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Tim Seifert.