Some of their best buys was KL Rahul for INR 11 crores and Chris Gayle, who was picked by KXIP during the third round of unsold players for his base price INR 2 crores.
Jaydev Unadkat became the costliest Indian buy fetching a mind boggling INR 11.5 crore deal from the usually thrifty Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2018 auction.
Can this mixture of young and experienced bunch hand KKR their third title? Most importantly, who will don the captaincy hat?
Dean Jones has already predicted SRH making it to the final again. Will they?
It will be interesting to see who will they appoint as the wicketkeeper and captain.
The Day Two of the auctions will get bigger and better as several overseas and Indian players are yet be sold.
Rashid Khan was the highest Afghanistan bid player in 2017.
KL Rahul played for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2017.
Gambhir played for DD from 2008 to 2010.
After Ben Stokes, Starc was the second highest so far in the bid.