MUMBAI: The IPL 2021 player auction list is out with a total of 292 cricketers set to go under the hammer in Chennai on February 18th, 2021. 1114 cricketers had initially registered for the auction. The final list was then pruned after the eight franchises submitted their shortlist of players.
Rs 2 crore (Rs 20 million) is the highest reserve price and two Indian players – Harbhajan Singh and Kedar Jadhav – and eight overseas players – Glenn Maxwell, Steve Smith, Shakib Al Hasan, Moeen Ali, Sam Billings, Liam Plunkett, Jason Roy & Mark Wood have chosen to be slotted in the highest bracket.
12 players are in the auction list with a base price of Rs 1.5 crore. Hanuma Vihari and Umesh Yadav are the two Indian players in the list of 11 cricketers with a base price of Rs 1 crore.
A total of 164 Indian players, 125 overseas players and 3 players from associate nations will be up for grabs in the player auction in Chennai.
The auction will start at 15:00 IST.
To check the complete list of IPL 2021 player auction, click here…
List of Capped Players as per their base price
Base Price (INR) Total Indians Overseas
2 Crore 10 2 8
1.5 Crore 12 – 12
1 Crore 11 2 9
75 Lacs 15 – 15
50 Lacs 65 13 52
IPL 2021 / Squad Size / Salary Cap / Available Slots
Franchise Players Intl Players Total spent (Rs.) Salary cap available (Rs.) Indian Slots Overseas Slots
CSK 19 7 65.10 19.90 6 1
DC 17 5 71.60 13.40 8 3
KXIP 16 3 31.80 53.20 9 5
KKR 17 6 74.25 10.75 8 2
MI 18 4 69.65 15.35 7 4
RR 16 5 47.15 37.85 9 3
RCB 14 5 49.60 35.40 11 3
SRH 22 7 74.25 10.75 3 1
Note: All Rs figures in Crs; 1Cr = 10m
Postscript: In the official statement on the player auction, all references to the IPL are prefixed with VIVO, the Chinese mobile manufacturing company that technically still has two years to run on the title rights sponsorship it signed on to with the BCCI in 2018.
Why is that? Simply put, India’s ongoing political tensions with China has allowed VIVO to exercise its “get out of jail option” in regards to its annual commitments of Rs 4.4 billion per year for servicing the IPL sponsorship. As for the BCCI, till such time as a replacement is found / decided upon, and it is officially announced, the Indian cricket board will publicly continue to maintain the facade that VIVO remains title rights holder. Or so this platform (and pretty much most of the Indian media) believes.
