Ahead of the 11th season of the IPL, which will be held from April 7 to May 27, 578 cricketers were under the hammer in the two-day player auction in Bengaluru.This is the biggest IPL auction ever. with new broadcast deal with Star and the value of the ground sponsors like Vivo, every team was looking at a financial bonanza.
The list of 578 includes 244 capped players, 332 uncapped and two Associates players.From an original pool of 1122, there were 578 cricketers up for auction; of these, 360 were Indian and the rest overseas players. The list of 578 included 244 capped players, 332 uncapped and two Associates players.
Here is List of Sold & Unsold Players:
The Punjab franchise bought right hand batsman K.L. Rahul for Rs11 crore and sign Ravichandran Ashwin for Rs 7.6 cr.
Sunrisers Hyderabad sign Shikhar Dhawan for Rs 5.2 cr, using their Right-to-Match option.
Mumbai Indians sign Kieron Pollard for Rs 5.4 cr, using their Right-to-match option.
Chris Gayle remains unsold.
Ben Stokes sold to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 12.5 cr.
Faf du Plessis bought for Rs 1.6 cr by Chennai Super Kings, who used their Right-to-match option.
Rajasthan Royals exercise their Right-to-match option to buy Ajinkya Rahane for Rs 4 cr.
Mitchell Starc goes to Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 9.4 cr.
CSK buy Harbhajan Singh for Rs 2 cr.
Sunrisers Hyderabad buy Shakib Al Hasan for Rs 2 cr.
Glenn Maxwell sold for Rs 9 cr to Delhi Daredevils. Kings XI decided not to use their RTM card.
Delhi Daredevils also buy Gautam Gambhir for Rs 2.8 cr. KKR decided not to use their RTM card.
CSK use their Right-To-Match option to retain Dwayne Bravo for Rs 6.4 cr.
Kane Williamson goes to SRH for Rs 3 cr.
Joe Root remains unsold.
Kings XI Punjab buy Yuvraj Singh for his base price of Rs 2 cr.
Karun Nair sold for Rs 5.6 cr to Kings XI Punjab.
Kings XI Punjab buy KL Rahul for Rs 11 cr.
Murali Vijay remains unsold.
David Miller sold to Kings XI Punjab for Rs 3 cr, after they used the RTM card.
