MUMBAI: Following two intense days of bidding in Bengaluru, the 2018 VIVO Indian Premier League auction concluded Sunday evening with millions of dollars in “smart money” bids splashed on 169 players (for 182 vacant slots). This included 113 Indians, 56 overseas, 91 capped, 77 uncapped and one Associate player. A total of 19 RTM cards were exercised and Rs 4.314 billion spent.
Ben Stokes emerged as the most expensive player of the season with Rajasthan Royals spending Rs 125 million on the England all-rounder. The second most expensive overseas player was Mitchell Starc, who was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 94 million.
Swashbuckling West Indian batsman Chris Gayle, after being unsold twice, was finally bought by Kings XI Punjab for his base price of Rs 20 million. The IPL auction saw some big names go unsold. It includes Lasith Malinga, Ishant Sharma, Dale Steyn, Hashim Amla and Joe Root.
Among the Indian players, Jaydev Unadkat became the most expensive player at Rs 115 million. He also became the most expensive Indian fast-bowler in the history of the IPL.
Manish Pandey and KL Rahul were the most expensive Indian batsmen at Rs 110 million each. Krunal Pandya was the most expensive uncapped Indian player at Rs 88 million. He was bought by Mumbai Indians through RTM.
BIGGEST BUYS
Ben Stokes (Rajasthan Royals) – Rs 125m
Jaydev Unadkat (Rajasthan Royals) – Rs 115m
Manish Pandey (Sunrisers Hyderabad) – Rs 110m
KL Rahul (Kings XI Punjab) – Rs 110m
Chris Lynn (Kolkata Knight Riders) – Rs 96m
Mitchell Starc (Kolkata Knight Riders) – Rs 94m
Glenn Maxwell (Delhi Daredevils) – Rs 90m
Rashid Khan (Sunrisers Hyderabad) – Rs 90m
IPL auction 2018 full list of players sold:
(UC = uncapped international player; OS = overseas player)
1) Rajasthan Royals: Steve Smith (OS) – retained
Ben Stokes (OS), Ajinkya Rahane, Stuart Binny, Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler (OS), Rahul Tripathi (UC), Jofra Archer (UC, OS), D’Arcy Short (UC, OS), Gowtham Krishnappa (UC), Dhawan Kulkarni, Jaydev Unadkat, Ankit Sharma, Anureet Singh Kathuria, Zahir Khan Pakteen (OS), MS Midhun, Prashant Chopra (UC), Ben Laughlin (OS), Mahipal Lomror (UC), Jatin Saxena (UC), Aryaman Vikram Birla (UC), Dushmanta Chameera
2) Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine (OS), Andre Russell (OS) – retained
Mitchell Starc (OS), Chris Lynn (OS), Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Shubman Gill (UC), Ishank Jaggi (UC), Ntish Rana, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Aniket Choudhary, Gurkeerat Mann Singh, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Rahul Tewatia (UC), Vinay Kumar, Apoorv Wankhade, Rinku Singh, Shivan Mavi, Cameron Delport (OS), Mitchell Johnson (OS), Javon Searless
3) Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers (OS), Sarfaraz Khan (retained)
Brendon Mccullum (OS), Chris Woakes (OS), Colin de Grandhomme (OS), Moeen Ali (OS), Quinton De Kock (OS), Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Manan Vohra (UC), Aniket Choudhary, Navdeep Saini, Murugan Ashwin (UC), Mandeep Singh, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Mohammed Siraj, Anirudha Joshi, Parthiv Patel, Tim Southee (UC), Pavan Deshpande (UC), Kulwant Khejroliya (UC)
4) Delhi Daredevils: Rishabh Pant, Chris Morris (OS), Shreyas Iyer (retained)
Glenn Maxwell (OS), Gautam Gambhir, Jason Roy (OS), Colin Munro (OS), Mohammad Shami, Kagiso Rabada (OS), Amit Mishra, Prithvi Shaw (UC), Harshal Patel (UC), Rahul Tewatia, Vijay Shankar, Avesh Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem (UC), Dan Christian (OS), Jayant Yadav, Trent Boult (OS), Manjot Kalra, Abhishek Sharma, Sandeep Lamichhane (OS), Naman Ojha, Sayan Ghosh
5) Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah – retained
Krunal Pandya, Kieron Pollard (OS), Mustafizur Rahman (OS), Pat Cummins (OS), Surya Kumar (UC), Ishan Kishan, Rhul Chahar (UC), Evin Lewis (OS), Saurabh Tiwary, Ben Cutting (OS), Pradeep Sangwan, JP Duminy (OS), Jason Behrendorff (OS), Tajinder Dhillon, Sharad Lumba, Siddhesh Lad (UC), Aditya Tare (UC), Mayank Markande (UC), Akila Dhananjaya (OS), Pradeep Sahu (UC), Anukul Roy (UC), Mohsin Khan (UC), Nidheesh MD Dinesan (UC)
6) Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner (OS), Bhuvneshwar Kumar – retained
Shikhar Dhawan, Shakib Al-Hasan, Kane Williamson, Yusuf Pathan, Rashid Khan, Ricky Bhui, Deepak Hooda, Siddharth Kaul, T Natarajan, Basil Thampi, Syed Khaleed Ahmed, Sachin Baby, Sandeep Sharma, Chris Jordan, Billy Stanlake, Tanmay Agarwal, Shreevats Goswami, Bipul Sharma, Mehdi Hasan
7) Kings XI Punjab: Axar Patel – retained
Ravi Ashwin, Yuvraj Singh, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, David Miller (OS), Aaron Finch (OS), Marcus Stoinis (OS), Mayank Agarwal (UC), Ankit Singh Rajpoot, Manoj Tiwary, Mohit Sharma, Mujeeb Zadran, Barinder Sran, Andrew Tye (OS), Shreyas Gopal, Ben Dwarshuis (OS), Mayank Dagar (UC), Chris Gayle (OS), Manzoor Dar (UC)
8) Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Suresh Raina – retained
Faf du Plessis (OS), Harbhajan Singh, Dwayne Bravo (OS), Shane Watson (OS), Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Ryudu, Imran Tahir (OS), Karn Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Jagadeesan Narayan, Mitchell Santner (OS), Deepak Chahar, Asif KM, Lungisani Ngidi (OS), Kanish Seth, Dhruv Shorey, Murali Vijay, Sam Billings (OS), Mark Wood (OS), Kshitiz Sharma (UC), Monu Singh (UC), Chaitanya Bishnoi (UC)
Full list of unsold players:
– Joe Root
– Hashim Amla
– James Faulkner
– Parthiv Patel
– Jonny Bairstow
– Mitchel Johnson
– Josh Hazlewood
– Mitchell McClenaghan
– Ish Sodhi
– Ishant Sharma
– Sam Billings
– Naman Ojha
– Samuel Badree
– Adam Zampa
– Himanshu Rana
– Siddhesh Lad
– Nikhil Naik
– Jitesh Sharma
– Sheldon Jackson
– Ben McDermott
– Prashant Chopra
– Vishnu Vinod
– Ankush Bains
– Aditya Tare
– Prashant Chopra
– Rajneesh Gurbani
– KC Cariappa
– Iqbal Abdullah
– Shivil Kaushik
– J Suchith
– Tejas Baroka
– Sai Kishore Ravi Srinivaasan
– Alex Hales
– Shaun Marsh
– Lendl Simmons
– Travis Head
– Colin Ingram
– Moises Henriques
– Corey Anderson
– Dale Steyn
– Nathan Lyon
– Anmolpreet Singh
– Pravin Dubey
– Bipul Sharma
– Swapnil Singh
– Ishwar Pandey
– Sayan Ghosh
– Nathu Singh
– Charles Johnson
– Smit Patel
– Ishan Porell
– Vikas Tokas
– Varun Aaron
– Thisara Perera
– Jhye Richardson
– Lalit Yadav
– Dane Paterson
– Kesrick Williams
– Chirag Gandhi
– Akash Bandari
– Himmat Singh
– Dushmanta Chameera
– Gulbadin Naib
– Jack Wildermuth
– Sagar Trivedi
– Ashok Dinda
– Umar Nazir Mir
– Indrajith Baba
For IPL auction 2018, the teams’ wallet was increased to Rs 800 million from Rs 600 million. However, Rs 330 million was deducted from all the teams’ wallets that retained three players, Rs 210 million if two players were retained and Rs 125 million if only one player was retained.
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