New Delhi: The players were auctioned on Thursday for the 14th season of the IPL. This time the players were auctioned on a small scale. The fate of 298 players was at stake in this auction. But in the end, a total of 57 players, including 22 foreigners, were bought by different franchisees. 145 crore 30 lakh was spent during this period. All franchises met their eight foreign players quota. Only Rajasthan Royals (24) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (22) camp could not complete 25 players.
Chris Morris of South Africa emerged as the most expensive player in this. He has been bought by Rajasthan Royals for 16.25 crores. In second place is New Zealand all rounder Kel Jameson, who was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore for 15 crores. RCB also bought Glenn Maxwell of Australia for 14.25 crores. In fourth place is Australia’s Jay Richardson, bought by Punjab Kings for 14 crores. At the same time, Chennai Superkings surprised by buying Krishnappa Gautam for 9.25 crores. Gautam has not played a single international match yet. Similarly, Punjab Kings surprised Australia’s bowler Riley Meredith for 8 crores by not playing an international match. Chennai Super Kings bought all rounder Moin Ali of England for 7 crores and Punjab Kings bought all rounder Shah Rukh Khan of Tamil Nadu for 5.25 crores.
South Africa all-rounder Chris Maurice has become the most expensive player ever in the players’ auction for the IPL 2021 season in Chennai. Maurice, who played for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the last season of IPL, had a base price of Rs 75 lakh and was bought by Rajasthan Royals for Rs 16.25 crore and added to his team. Earlier this record was in the name of Yuvraj Singh of India, who was bought by Delhi Capitals (at that time Delhi Daredevils) for Rs 16 crores in 2015. It was a record of IPL which Maurice has broken.
With this, Maurice has also become the most expensive selling foreign player in IPL history. Earlier, in the auction for the last season of IPL, Australia’s Pat Cummins was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 15.50 crore, which was the most expensive foreign player in IPL history. When auction started for season 14, Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell was added by Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 14.25 crore. Maxwell’s base price was Rs 2 crore. But Maurice overtook them. Maxwell was bought by Punjab Kings (then Kings XI Punjab) in the auction for the 2020 season for 10.75 crores but was released this year.
TEAM PLAYER PRICE PAID (in Lakhs) TYPE LAST TEAM
CSK C Hari Nishanth 20 Batsman –
CSK K Bhagath Varma 20 All-rounder –
CSK Harishankar Reddy 20 Bowler –
CSK Cheteshwar Pujara 50 Batsman –
CSK Krishnappa Gowtham 925 All-rounder KXIP
CSK Moeen ali 700 All-rounder RCB
CSK Robin Uthappa * 300 Wicket-keeper RR
DC Sam billings 200 Wicket-keeper –
DC Tom curran 525 Bowler RR
DC Manimaran siddharth 20 Bowler –
DC Lukman meriwala 20 Bowler –
DC Vishnu Vinod 20 Wicket-keeper –
DC Ripal Patel 20 Batsman –
DC Umesh yadav 100 Bowler RCB
DC Steven smith 220 Batsman RR
KKR Pawan Negi 50 Bowler –
KKR Venkatesh iyer 20 All-rounder –
KKR Ben cutting 75 All-rounder –
KKR Harbhajan singh 200 Bowler CSK
KKR Karun nair 50 Batsman KXIP
KKR Vaibhav arora 20 Bowler –
KKR Sheldon jackson 20 Wicket-keeper –
KKR Shakib Al Hasan 320 All-rounder –
KXIP Saurabh Kumar 20 Batsman –
KXIP Fabian allen 75 All-rounder SRH
KXIP Utkarsh singh 20 All-rounder –
KXIP Jalaj Saxena 30 All-rounder –
KXIP Moises henriques 420 All-rounder –
KXIP Riley meredith 800 Bowler –
KXIP Shahrukh Khan 525 Batsman –
KXIP Jhye richardson 1400 Bowler –
KXIP Dawid malan 150 Batsman –
MI Arjun tendulkar 20 All-rounder –
MI Marco jansen 20 Bowler –
MI Yudhvir charak 20 All-rounder –
MI James neesham 50 All-rounder KXIP
MI Piyush Chawla 240 Bowler CSK
MI Nathan Coulter-Nile 500 Bowler MI
MI Adam milne 320 Bowler –
RCB Srikar Bharat 20 Wicket-keeper –
RCB Suyash Prabhudessai 20 Batsman –
RCB Daniel christian 480 All-rounder –
RCB Kyle jamieson 1500 Bowler –
RCB Mohammed azharuddeen 20 Wicket-keeper –
RCB Rajat Patidar 20 Batsman –
RCB Sachin Baby 20 Batsman –
RCB Glenn maxwell 1425 All-rounder KXIP
RCB Daniel Sams * 30 All-rounder DC
RCB Harshal Patel * 20 Bowler DC
RR Akash singh 20 Bowler RR
RR Kuldip yadav 20 Bowler –
RR Liam livingstone 75 Batsman –
RR KC Cariappa 20 Bowler –
RR Chetan Sakariya 120 Bowler –
RR Mustafizur rahman 100 Bowler –
RR Chris morris 1625 All-rounder RCB
RR Shivam Dube 440 All-rounder RCB
SRH Mujeeb ur rahman 150 Bowler KXIP
SRH Kedar jadhav 200 All-rounder CSK
SRH Jagadeesha Suchith 30 Bowler KXIP
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