IPL Auction Ends: All Teams Get New Players, Records Broken
The Indian Premier League (IPL) auction recently finished, with teams spending huge amounts of money to build their squads. Some players were bought for record-breaking prices, and many new faces joined different teams.
Key Moments from the Auction
Big Buys and New Records
This auction saw some of the highest bids ever. Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) made the biggest splash, spending:
- Rs 25.20 crore for Australian all-rounder Cameron Green.
- Rs 18 crore for Sri Lankan fast bowler Matheesha Pathirana.
Indian players who had not played in the IPL before (uncapped players) also earned big amounts. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) bought two such players, making them the highest-paid uncapped players in IPL history:
- Prashant Veer (a 20-year-old left-arm spinner from Uttar Pradesh) for Rs 14.20 crore.
- Kartik Sharma (a 19-year-old wicketkeeper-batter from Rajasthan) for Rs 14.20 crore.
Both these players had a starting price of only Rs 30 lakh, showing how much demand there was for them.
Other important buys included:
- Auqib Nabi Dar (pacer from Jammu and Kashmir) went to Delhi Capitals for Rs 8.40 crore.
- English hitter Liam Livingstone was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 13 crore.
- Australian wicketkeeper-batter Josh Inglis joined Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 8.60 crore.
- Veteran South African opener Quinton de Kock returned to Mumbai Indians for Rs 1 crore.
All 10 Teams: Complete Squads After the Auction
Mumbai Indians (MI)
- Batters: Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Danish Malewar
- Wicketkeepers: Robin Minz, Ryan Rickelton, Quinton de Kock
- Allrounders: Shardul Thakur, Sherfane Rutherford, Corbin Bosch, Hardik Pandya, Mitchell Santner, Naman Dhir, Raj Bawa, Tilak Varma, Will Jacks, Atharva Ankolekar
- Spinners: Mayank Markande, AM Ghazanfar, Raghu Sharma
- Fast Bowlers: Ashwani Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Mohammed Izhar
Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
- Batters: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Dewald Brevis, Ayush Mhatre, Sarfaraz Khan, Matt Short
- Wicketkeepers: Sanju Samson, MS Dhoni, Urvil Patel, Kartik Sharma
- Allrounders: Shivam Dube, Zak Foulkes, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Shreyas Gopal, Jamie Overton, Akeal Hosein, Aman Khan, Prashant Veer
- Spinners: Noor Ahmad, Rahul Chahar
- Fast Bowlers: Khaleel Ahmed, Nathan Ellis, Matt Henry, Gurjapneet Singh, Anshul Kamboj, Mukesh Choudhary
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)
- Batters: Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Tim David, Devdutt Padikkal
- Wicketkeepers: Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Jordan Cox
- Allrounders: Jacob Bethell, Venkatesh Iyer, Krunal Pandya, Swapnil Singh, Romario Shepherd, Satwik Deswal, Kanish Chouhan, Vihaan Malhotra, Vicky Ostwal
- Spinners: Suyash Sharma
- Fast Bowlers: Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Rasikh Salam, Mangesh Yadav, Yash Dayal, Jacob Duffy, Nuwan Thushara, Abhinandan Singh
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
- Batters: Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Rahul Tripathi, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell
- Wicketkeepers: Finn Allen, Tejasvi Dahiya, Tim Seifert
- Allrounders: Anukul Roy, Cameron Green, Daksh Kamra, Ramandeep Singh, Rachin Ravindra, Sarthak Ranjan, Sunil Narine
- Spinners: Prashant Solanki, Varun Chakravarthy
- Fast Bowlers: Akash Deep, Harshit Rana, Kartik Tyagi, Matheesha Pathirana, Mustafizur Rahman, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
- Batters: Travis Head, Aniket Verma, R Smaran
- Wicketkeepers: Heinrich Klaasen, Ishan Kishan, Salil Arora
- Allrounders: Liam Livingstone, Abhishek Sharma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Brydon Carse, Pat Cummins, Harshal Patel, Kamindu Mendis, Harsh Dubey, Jack Edwards, Shivang Kumar, Krains Fuletra
- Spinners: Zeeshan Ansari, Amit Kumar
- Fast Bowlers: Eshan Malinga, Jaydev Unadkat, Shivam Mavi, Onkar Tarmale, Sakib Hussain, Praful Hinge
Delhi Capitals (DC)
- Batters: Prithvi Shaw, Karun Nair, Nitish Rana, Pathum Nissanka, Ashutosh Sharma, David Miller, Sameer Rizvi, Sahil Parakh
- Wicketkeepers: KL Rahul, Abishek Porel, Tristan Stubbs, Ben Duckett
- Allrounders: Axar Patel, Vipraj Nigam, Kyle Jamieson, Auqib Nabi, Madhav Tiwari, T Vijay, Ajay Mandal
- Spinners: Kuldeep Yadav
- Fast Bowlers: Mitchell Starc, Mukesh Kumar, T Natarajan, Lungi Ngidi, Dushmantha Chameera
Rajasthan Royals (RR)
- Batters: Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Aman Rao
- Wicketkeepers: Dhruv Jurel, Ravi Singh
- Allrounders: Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Riyan Parag, Yudhvir Singh
- Spinners: Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Raj Punja, Vignesh Puthur
- Fast Bowlers: Jofra Archer, Kwena Maphaka, Nandre Burger, Sandeep Sharma, Tushar Deshpande, Sushant Mishra, Adam Milne, Kuldeep Sen, Brijesh Sharma
Punjab Kings (PBKS)
- Batters: Harnoor Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Priyansh Arya, Pyla Avinash, Shreyas Iyer
- Wicketkeepers: Prabhsimran Singh, Vishnu Vinod
- Allrounders: Azmatullah Omarzai, Ben Dwarhuis, Cooper Connolly, Harpreet Brar, Marco Jansen, Marcus Stoinis, Mitchell Owen, Musheer Khan, Shashank Singh, Suryansh Shedge
- Spinners: Praveen Dubey, Yuzvendra Chahal
- Fast Bowlers: Arshdeep Singh, Lockie Ferguson, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Vishal Nishad, Xavier Bartlett, Yash Thakur
Gujarat Titans (GT)
- Batters: Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Tom Banton, Glenn Phillips, Shahrukh Khan
- Wicketkeepers: Jos Buttler, Anuj Rawat, Kumar Kushagra
- Allrounders: Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Washington Sundar, Manav Suthar, Rahul Tewatia, Nishant Sindhu, Jayant Yadav, Arshad Khan
- Spinners: Sai Kishore
- Fast Bowlers: Kagiso Rabada, Luke Wood, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Gurnoor Brar, Ishant Sharma, Ashok Sharma, Prithvi Raj Yarra
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)
The full squad for Lucknow Super Giants includes:
- Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Akash Singh, Arjun Tendulkar, Arshin Kulkarni, Avesh Khan, Ayush Badoni, Digvesh Rathi, Himmat Singh, Manimaran Siddharth, Matthew Breetzke, Mayank Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mitchell Marsh, Mohsin Khan, Nicholas Pooran, Prince Yadav, Rishabh Pant (Captain), Shahbaz Ahmed, Wanindu Hasaranga, Anrich Nortje, Mukul Choudhary, Naman Tiwari, Akshat Raghuvanshi, Josh Inglis.
