At the end of the of 2019 IPL player auction in Jaipur on Tuesday, where 151 cricketers out of 351 went under the hammer and a total of 60 were sold, here s a look at how the eight franchises spent.
Kings XI Punjab entered the auction with a purse of Rs 36.2 crore and with 15 slots open, and spent 32.5 crore of it on 13 players the most for any franchise.
Delhi Capitals acquired the next most 10 players followed by Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals with nine each.
Purse left before auction: Rs 8.4 crore
Spent at auction: Rs 5.20
Bought: Mohit Sharma (Rs 5 crore), Rituraj Gaekwad (Rs 20 lakh)
Earlier retained: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, M Vijay, Shane Watson, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, David Willey, Dwayne Bravo, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Sam Billings, Harbhajan Singh, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma, Dhruv Shorey, N Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi.
Squad strength: 25
Overseas players: 8
Delhi Capitals
Purse left before auction: Rs 25.5 crore
Spent at auction: Rs 17.8 crore
Bought: Hanuma Vihari (Rs 2 crore), Axar Patel (5 crore), Ishant Sharma (1.1 crore), Ankush Bains (20 lakh), Nathu Singh (20 lakh), Colin Ingram (6.4 crore), Sherfane Rutherford (2 crore), Keemo Paul (20 lakh), Jalaj Saxena (20 lakh), Ayappa Bandaru (20 lakh)
Earlier retained: Shreyas Iyer, Prithvi Shaw, Rishabh Pant, Manjot Kalra, Colin Munro, Chris Morris, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Harshal Patel, Amit Mishra, Kagiso Rabada, Trent Boult, Sandeep Lamichhane, Avesh Khan
Squad strength: 25
Overseas players: 8
Kings XI Punjab
Purse before auction: Rs 36.2 crore
Spent at auction: Rs 32.5 crore
Bought: Moises Henriques (1 crore), Mohammed Shami (4.8 crore), Sarfraz Khan (20 lakh), Varun Chakravarthy (8.4 crore), Nicholas Pooran (4.20 crore), Sam Curran (7.2 crore), Hardus Viljoen (75 lakh), Arshdeep Singh (20 lakh), Darshan Nalkhande (30 lakh), Prabhsimran Singh (4.8 crore), Agnivesh Ayachi (20 lakh), Harpreet Brar (20 lakh), Murugan Ashwin (20 lakh)
Earlier retained: Chris Gayle, David Miller, Karun Nair, Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul, R Ashwin, Ankit Rajpoot, Andrew Tye, Mujeeb ur Rahman
Squad strength: 23
Overseas players: 8
Purse before auction: Rs 15.2 crore
Spent at auction: Rs 9.15 crore
Bought: Carlos Brathwaite (5 crore), Lockie Ferguson (1.6 crore), Anrich Nortje (20 lakh), Nikhil Naik (20 lakh), Prithviraj Yarra (20 lakh), Harry Gurney (75 lakh), Srikant Mundhe (20 lakh), Joe Denly (1 crore)
Earlier retained: Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Chris Lynn, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shivam Mavi, Kuldeep Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Prasidh Krishna
Squad strength: 21
Overseas players: 8
Purse: Rs 11.15 crore
Spent: Rs 7.6 crore
Bought: Lasith Malinga (2 crore), Anmolpreet Singh (80 lakh), Barinder San (3.4 crore), Pankaj Jaiswal (20 lakh) Rasikh Dar (20 lakh), Yuvraj Singh (1 crore)
Earlier retained: Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Mayank Markande, Rahul Chahar, Anukul Roy, Siddhesh Lad, Aditya Tare, Quinton de Kock, Kieron Pollard, Ben Cutting, Mitchell McClenaghan, Adam Milne, Jason Behrendorff
Squad strength: 24
Overseas players: 8
Rajasthan Royals
Purse before auction: Rs 20.95 crore
Spent at auction: Rs 13.8 crore
Bought: Jaydev Unadkat (8.4 crore), Varun Aaron (2.4 crore), Oshane Thomas (1.1 crore), Shashank Singh (30 lakh), Liam Livingstone (50 lakh), Riyan Parag (20 lakh), Manan Vohra (20 lakh), Shubham Ranjane (20 lakh), Ashton Turner (50 lakh)
Earlier retained: Ajinkya Rahane, Krishnappa Gowtham, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Gopal, Aryaman Birla, S Midhun, Prashant Chopra, Stuart Binny, Rahul Tripathi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mahipal Lomror, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Steve Smith, Jofra Archer, Ish Sodhi
Squad strength: 25
Overseas players: 8
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Purse before auction: Rs 18.15 crore
Spent at auction: Rs 11 crore
Bought: Shimron Hetmyer (4.2 crore), Gurkeerat Singh (50 lakh), Devdutt Padikkal (20 lakh), Shivam Dubey (5 crore), Heinrich Klaasen (50 lakh), Himmat Singh (65 lakh), Milind Kumar (20 lakh), Prayas Ray Barman (1.5 crore), Akshdeep Nath (3.6 crore)
Earlier retained: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Parthiv Patel, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Moeen Ali, Colin de Grandhomme, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya, Nathan Coulter-Nile
Squad strength: 24
Overseas players: 8
Purse before auction: Rs 9.70 crore
Spent at auction: Rs 4.4 crore
Bought: Jonny Bairstow (2.2 crore), Wriddhiman Saha (1.2 crore), Martin Guptill (1 crore)
Earlier retained: David Warner, Yusuf Pathan, Rashid Khan, Shakib Al Hasan, Billy Stanlake, Kane Williamson, Mohammad Nabi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Manish Pandey, T Natarajan, Ricky Bhui, Sandeep Sharma, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, Basil Thampi, Deepak Hooda
Squad strength: 23
Overseas players: 8