Indian Premier League franchises ready to splash cash at mega auction
None will be as pleased with their buys as Rajasthan Royals, for they got the highly successful, if controversial, Ben Stokes for Rs 12.5 crore - Rs 2 crore less than what Rising Pune Supergiant spent on the allrounder last season - to go with a number of highly sought-after cricketers.
Kings XI Punjab have bought Yuvraj Singh, one of the cleanest hitters to have ever played for India at 2 crores.
India opener Shikhar Dhawan was the first player bought at the auction, by Sunrisers, his old franchise using a RTM to snap him up after extensive bidding.
Kolkata Knight Riders bought Australia pacer Mitchell Starc for Rs 9.40 crore. Chennai Super Kings started the bid at Rs 2 crore and then were joined by Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Root was one of three big-name players to go unsold in the early rounds of bidding - the others being West Indies' Chris Gayle and South Africa's Hashim Amla.
Root was also overlooked on day one, with franchises potentially concerned about the availability of England's Test captain.
Ashwin will be among the first lot of two sets of eight players each, who have been tagged as "marquee players". West Indies legspinner Samuel Badree, who claimed a hat trick in last year's tournament, went unsold.
Royal Challengers bid for the swashbuckling New Zealand batsman Brendon McCullum for Rs 3.6 crore.
In this year's auctions, players have been clubbed into eight slabs. Their most expensive player was Glenn Maxwell, who Punjab chose to part ways with, for Rs 9 crore.
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Gayle was the fourth player up for auction, but no franchise was interested in even bidding for his base price of $387,800.
The much awaited auction which shall witness 578 of the very best T20 cricketers in the world go under the hammer shall be a two day long affair. That meant Mumbai paid more for Krunal than they did for the third of their retained players, Jasprit Bumrah, whom they had kept on their roster for INR 7 crore before the auction.
Two Karnataka batsmen rocked the auction soon after, breaching the Rs 10 crore mark. Kings XI Punjab, Mumbai Indians and RR fought for the player, who was sold to Kings XI Punjab with highest bid of Rs 5.2 crore.
Many teams used the Right to Match (RTM) card to buy back a few players.
Indian opener Gautam Gambhir, who was the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders got sold to Delhi Daredevils for $440,440.
Seasoned leg-spinner Karn Sharma went to CSK for Rs 5 crore.
The Yorkshireman's base price is just behind that of Stokes at 1.5 crore rupees, or around £165,000, and he said: "Of course there is a money side to it, there is no point lying about it, but it's not why I went into the auction".
Colin Munro was bought for 1.9 crore rupees (NZ$406,000) at the annual auction on Saturday, and that may be a bargain for Delhi, given the form he has shown this summer. 6 crore to Kings XI Punjab.
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