IPL 2018 Auction LIVE updates: MI bags Krunal Pandya for 8.8 cr, KL Rahul and Mansih Pandey fetch Rs 11 cr each

Here are the LIVE updates of IPL 2018  Auction:

Avesh Khan is sold to DD for Rs 70 lakh

Navdeep Saini is sold to RCB for Rs 3 crore

Syed Khaleel Ahmed is sold to SRH for Rs 3 crore

Aniket Choudhary is sold to RCB for Rs 30 lakh

Rajneesh Gurbani remains unsold

Basil Thampi is sold to SRH for Rs 95 lakh

Uncapped T. Natarajan is sold to SRH for Rs 40 lakh

Siddharth Kaul is sold to SRH for Rs 3.8 crore

Uncapped fast bowler Kulwant Khejroliya is sold to  RCB for Rs 85 lakh

Prashant Chopra remains unsold

Sheldon Jackson remains unsold

Vishnu Vinod remains unsold

Ankush Bains remains unsold

Aditya Tare remains unsold

Ben McDermott remains unsold

Nikhil Naik remains unsold

Ishan Kishan is sold to Mumbai Indians for Rs 6.2 crore

Jitesh Sharma remains unsold

Barbadian cricketer Jofra Archer is sold to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 7.2 crore

Shivam Dubey remains unsold

Australian Uncapped player D’arcy Short is sold to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 4 crore

Nitish Rana is sold to KKR for INR 340 lakh

Mumbai Indians use their RTM card to retain Uncapped Krunal Pandya for Rs 8.80 crore

Uncapped Kamlesh Nagarkoti is sold to KKR for Rs 3.20 crore

Harshal Patel is sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 20 lakh

Vijay Shankar is sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 3.20 core

Sun Risers Hyderabad use their RTM to retain Deepak Hooda for Rs 3.60 core

Uncapped Rahul Tewatia is sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 300 lakh

Uncapped  Prithvi Shaw is sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 1.20 crore

Uncapped  Siddhesh Lad remains unsold

Uncapped Manan Vohra is sold to RCB for Rs 1. 10 lakh

Uncapped Rahul Tripathi is sold to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 3.40 crore

Uncapped Himanshu Rana remains unsold

Uncapped Mayank Agarwal is sold to Kings XI Punjab for Rs 1.00 crore

Uncapped Ricky Bhui is sold to Sun Risers Hyderabad for INR 20 lakh

Uncapped Ishank Jaggi is sold to KKR for Rs 20 lakh

Uncapped Shubhman Gill is sold to KKR for Rs 1.80 crore

Uncapped Surya Kumar Yadav is sold to Mumbai Indians for Rs 3.20 crore

Kolkata Knight Riders use their RTM to retain Kuldeep Yadav for Rs 5.80 crore

Australian Adam Zampa remains unsold

Royal Challengers Bangalore use their RTM to retain Yuzvendra Chahal for Rs 6 crore

West Indian Samuel Badree remains unsold

Amit Mishra is sold to  Delhi Dare Devil for Rs 400 lakh

Sun Risers Hyderabad use their RTM to retain Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan for Rs 9 crore

Karn Sharma is sold to Chennai Super Kings for Rs 5 Crore

New Zealand’s Ish Sodhi remains unsold

South Africa’s Imran Tahir is sold to Chennai Super Kings for Rs 1 crore

Kolkata Knight Riders use their RTM to retain Piyush Chawla for Rs 4. 20 Crore

Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga remains unsold

Delhi Daredevils use their RTM and retain Kagiso Rabadafor Rs 420 lakh

Australian Mitchell McClenaghan remains unsold VIVO

Delhi Daredevils use RTM and retain Mohammed Shami for Rs 3cr

Indian pacer Umesh Yadav is sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 4.20 cr

Australian bowler Pat Cummins is sold to Mumbai Indians for Rs 5.40 cr

Mitchell Johnson, Josh Hazlewood remains unsold

Bangladesh star bowler Mustafizur Rahman is sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 2.2 cr

England wicketkeeper-bastaman Jos Buttler sold to Rajasthan Royals for 4.40 cr

Indian batsman Ambati Rayudu is sold to Chennai Super Kings for Rs 2.2 cr

Sanju Samson is sold to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 8 cr

KKR use their RTM for Robin Uthappa and he is sold for Rs 6.4 cr

Dinesh Karthik is sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 7.40 cr

England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow remains unsold.

Wriddhiman Saha sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 5 cr

South Africa wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton De Kock is sold to RCB for Rs 2.8 cr

Wicketkeeper-batsman Parthiv Patel remains unsold.

England all-rounder Moeen Ali sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 1.70 crore.

Aussie all-rounder Marcus Stoinis retained by Kings XI Punjab for Rs 6.20 crore using RTM.

Indian player Stuart Binny sold to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 50 lakh.

New Zealand all-rounder Colin Munro sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 1.90 crore.

India discard Yusuf Pathan sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 1.90 crore.

Australia’s James Faulkner remains unsold.

New Zealand all-rounder Colin de Grandhomme sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 2.20 crore.

India cricketer Kedar Jadhav sold to Chennai Super Kings for Rs 7.80 crore.

Australia’s Shane Watson sold to Chennai Super Kings for Rs 4 crore.

Windies all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 2 crore.

English all-rounder Chris Woakes after intense bidding goes to Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 7.40 crore.

New Zealand batsman Martin Guptill remains unsold.

Indian batter Manish Pandey sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 11 crore.

South Africa’s Hashim Amla remains unsold.

Aussie striker Chris Lynn attracts a big bid of Rs 9.60 crore and will play for Kolkata Knight Riders.

England hitter Jason Roy goes to Delhi Daredevils for his base price of Rs 1.50 crore.

New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 3.60 crore.

Australian batsman Aaron Finch sold to Kings XI Punjab for Rs 6.20 crore.

South Africa’s David Miller retained by Kings XI Punjab for Rs 3 crore.

Indian Test specialist Murali Vijay remains unsold.

India cricketer KL Rahul fetches a whopping Rs 11 crore bid and will play for Kings XI Punjab.

India batsman Karun Nair sold to Kings XI Punjab for Rs 5.60 crore.

India cricketer Yuvraj Singh sold at his base price of Rs 2 crore to Kings XI Punjab.

England Test captain Joe Root remains unsold.

New Zealand captain Kane Williamson sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 3 crore.

West Indies cricketer Dwayne Bravo retained by Chennai Super Kings for Rs 6.40 crore.

Indian discard Gautam Gambhir sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 2.80 crore.

Australian Glenn Maxwell after hectic bidding goes to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 9 crore.

Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan goes to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 2 crore.

Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh sold to Chennai Super Kings for his base price of Rs 2 crore.

So after a little break action resumes and now the second set of marquee players will go under the hammer.

Aussie speedster Mitchell Starc goes to SRK’s Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 9.40 crore.

Indian batsman Ajinkya Rahane retained by Rajasthan Royals for Rs 4 crore using RTM card.

South Africa’s captain Faf du Plessis retained by Chennai Super Kings for Rs 1.60 crore.

England’s maverick all-rounder Ben Stokes goes to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 12.50 crore making him the richest buy so far.

Breaking News: Chris Gayle remains unsold.

West Indian all-rounder Kieron Pollard retained by Mumbai Indians for Rs 5.40 crore using Right to Match card.

India’s ace spinner Ravichandran Ashwin after intense bidding sold to Kings XI Punjab for Rs 7.60 crore.

India’s Shikhar Dhawan was the first player up for auction in the IPL 2018 auction. He was retained by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 5.20 crore using Right to Match card.

Eh, Indian Premier League is back. The cash-rich extravaganza will be in its eleventh season and will begin from April 7, 2018. But, before that, there will be a mega-auction, which will see 578 players going under the hammer and teams will build their squad. The auction will last for two days and it will be a grand spectacle. IPL auctions have always been mercurial and colourful and this year it will be no different and at end of the day some players will become millionaires and quite a few will remain unsold.

IPL is like a carnival and all the franchises will spend cash judiciously to buy players and every transaction will be scrutinized. The auction will kick off with marquee players going under the hammer and the likes of Yuvraj Singh, Ben Stokes, Chris Gayle, and Mitchell Starc will fetch quite a few bucks and then normal proceedings will continue and this auction will help teams make their squad for this season. Auctions in IPL have always thrown surprises and by the end of it we will find out what this process has achieved. So fasten your seat belts and get ready for money being splashed on cricketers and may the best man take home million bucks.