The best memes and jokes on IPL auctions 2020

There were jokes about specific players as well as about how teams were spending in the IPL 2020 auction.

By: Trends Desk
New Delhi | Updated: December 20, 2019 01:14 PM IST

3 min read

Pat Cummins’ bidding price got everyone talking online.

As team owners big for star cricketers, the IPL 2020 auctions trended on social media as well. Australian fast-bowler Pat Cummins was one of the biggest buys at the auction with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) going all out to sign him on. Bought for $2.2 million (Rs 15.5 crore) after a pitched battle against Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore, Cummins was at the centre of jokes and memes on social media.

There were also jokes and memes about KKR’s IPL 2020 budget given the high prices they were willing to shell out.

Here are some of the funniest memes with #IPLAuction2020.

https://twitter.com/sagarcasm/status/1207608053891092480

https://twitter.com/katamulgi/status/1207640582870298625
https://twitter.com/badechote/status/1207591523618967552

https://twitter.com/PurnaReddy_07_/status/1207611902207000578
https://twitter.com/Imsatyajit141/status/1207644152357244929
https://twitter.com/Saurabh41393288/status/1207625112607813637

There were other success stories as well. Sons of a farmer and a driver and a boy who sold panipuris and slept in a tent for three years have become millionaires overnight in the IPL auction. Kartik Tyagi, whose father is a small-time farmer, went for Rs 1.3 crores, Priyam Garg, whose father is a driver now and who used to sell milk door to door once, went for Rs 1.9 crores and Yashasvi Jaiswal, who spent his formative years as cricketer in a tent, bagged Rs 2.40 crores.

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