IPL 2021 Player Auction Live: The auction is being held in Chennai.IPL 2021 Players Auction Live Updates: Chris Morris (RR) became the costliest ever player at an IPL auction while Krishnappa Gowtham (CSK) became the costliest Indian uncapped player at the IPL 2021 auction. Cheteshwar Pujara was sold to Chennai Super Kings.
A total of 292 players were enlisted for the shortened auctions — 164 of them Indian and 125 overseas. There will also be three associate players in the auction.
With 61 slots across eight franchises up for grabs, Royal Challengers Bangalore has the maximum, 11 vacancies, to fill with a purse of Rs 35.4 crore while Sunrisers Hyderabad has only three slots available with Rs 10.75 crore in its kitty. The highest purse available is with Anil Kumble coached ‘Punjab Kings’, formerly Kings XI Punjab, which has Rs 53.20 crore available for spending on nine spots.
With the IPL back in India after being held in the UAE last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the focus will be on big-hitters as well as slow bowlers.
Wayne Parnell UNSOLD
Reece Topley UNSOLD
Chris Green UNSOLD
Isiru Udana UNSOLD
George Linde UNSOLD
Chaitanya Bishnoi UNSOLD
Yudhvir Charak SOLD to MI for 20L
Ajay Dev Goud UNSOLD
Bhagvath Varma SOLD to CSK for 20L
Jack Wildermuth UNSOLD
Harsh Tyagi UNSOLD
Gerald Coetzee UNSOLD
Tim David UNSOLD
Marco Jansen SOLD to MI for 20L
Liam Livingstone SOLD to Royals for 75L
Thisara Perera UNSOLD
Ben Mcdermott UNSOLD
Matthew Wade UNSOLD
Sean Abbott UNSOLD
Siddhesh Lad UNSOLD
Tarjinder Dhillon UNSOLD
Prerak Mankad UNSOLD
Suyash Prabhudessai SOLD to RCB at 20L
KS Bharat SOLD to RCB at 20L
Josh Inglis UNSOLD
Harisankar Reddy SOLD to CSK at 20L
Simarjeet Singh UNSOLD
Kuldip Yadav SOLD to RR at 20L
Scott Kuggleijn UNSOLD
Jimmy Neesham SOLD to MI at 20L
Fabian Allen is SOLD to Punjab Kings for 75 L. That is their last overseas pick.
Daniel Christian draws interest from both KKR and RCB. His price shoots up now. Over 3 crore ... over 4... and it is RCB who get him, for 4.8 cr.
Jalaj Saxena - Punjab Kings for 30 L
Karan Sharma UNSOLD
Utkarsh Singh - Punjab Kings for 20 L
KL Shrijith UNSOLD
Vaibhav Arora - KKR for 20 L
Ben Dwarshius UNSOLD
Kohli, de Villiers, Padikkal, Sundar, Chahal, Siraj, Saini, Pavan Deshpande, Shahbaz Ahamad, Harshal Patel, Josh Philippe, Zampa, Richardson, Daniel Sams
➕ Glenn Maxwell, Sachin Baby, Rajat Patidar, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Kyle Jamieson
Morgan, Karthik, Gill, Nitish Rana, Seifert, Rinku Singh, Russell, Narine, Kuldeep, Shivam Mavi, Lockie Ferguson, Cummins, Nagarkoti, Sandeep Warrier, Prasidh Krishna, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy
➕ Shakib Al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson
Iyer, Dhawan, Pant, Shaw, Rahane, Ishant, Hetmyer, Stoinis, Axar, Avesh Khan, Ashwin, Lalit Yadav, Pravin Dubey, Rabada, Nortje, Woakes.
➕ Steve Smith, Umesh Yadav, Ripal Patel, Vishnu Vinod, Lukman Hussain Meriwala, M Siddharth, Tom Curran
Williamson, Bairstow, Warner, Bhuvneshwar, Pandey, Shankar, Goswami, Rashid, Nabi, Marsh, Holder, Wriddhiman, Abhishek, Khaleel, Sandeep, Kaul, Nadeem, Thampi, Natarajan, Virat, Garg, Abdul Samad
➕ J Suchith
Samson, Buttler, Vohra, Riyan Parag, Stokes, Shreyas Gopal, Mahipal Lomror, Miller, Markande, Tewatia, Unadkat, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, Kartik Tyagi, Archer, Tye
➕ Shivam Dube, Chris Morris, Mustafizur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya, KC Cariappa
Rahul, Agarwal, Gayle, Mandeep, Pooran, Sarfraz, Shami, Murugan Ashwin, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Darshan Nalkande, Hooda, Porel, Bishnoi, Prabhsimran Singh, Jordan.
➕ Dawid Malan, Jhye Richardson, Shahrukh Khan, Riley Meredith, Moises Henriques
CSK: INR 3.15 crore remaining. No overseas slots. 3 slots overall remaining
DC: INR 4.15 crore remaining. 1 overseas slot. 1 slot overall remaining
KKR: INR 7.35 crore remaining. 1 overseas slots. 6 slots overall remaining
MI: INR 4.75 crore remaining. 2 overseas slots. 4 slots overall remaining
PK: INR 20.25 crore remaining. 1 overseas slot. 4 slots overall remaining
RR: INR 14.8 crore remaining. 1 overseas slots. 4 slots overall remaining
RCB: INR 5.55 crore remaining. 1 overseas slot. 6 slots overall remaining
SRH: INR 10.45 crore remaining. 1 overseas slots. 2 slots overall remaining
Tom Curran SOLD to DC for Rs 5.25 crore
Gurkeerat Singh UNSOLD
Marnus Labuschagne UNSOLD
Varun Aaron UNSOLD
Oshane Thomas UNSOLD
Mohit Sharma UNSOLD
Billy Stanlake UNSOLD
Mitchell McClenaghan UNSOLD
Jason Behrendorff UNSOLD
Auction will resume after a 45-minute tea break.
Pawan Negi and Martin Guptill go UNSOLD. Kyle Jamieson is up next. He was touted to have been one of the biggest names in today's auction. RCB and DC enter the fray. RCB take the lead at 7 crore. Punjab Kings now enter the battle. Over 15 crore now. Jamieson has overtaken Maxwell... and RCB win this battle. Kyle Jamieson SOLD to RCB for 15 crore.
Rovman Powell UNSOLD
Shaun Marsh UNSOLD
Corey Anderson UNSOLD
Devon Conway UNSOLD
Darren Bravo UNSOLD
Rassie van der Dussen UNSOLD
Cheteshwar Pujara SOLD to CSK at 50L
CSK: INR 3.65 crore remaining. No overseas slots. 4 slots overall remaining
DC: INR 9.4 crore remaining. 2 overseas slots. 2 slots overall remaining
KKR: INR 7.35 crore remaining. 1 overseas slots. 6 slots overall remaining
MI: INR 4.75 crore remaining. 2 overseas slots. 4 slots overall remaining
PK: INR 24.45 crore remaining. 2 overseas slots. 5 slots overall remaining
RR: INR 14.8 crore remaining. 1 overseas slots. 4 slots overall remaining
RCB: INR 20.55 crore remaining. 2 overseas slots. 7 slots overall remaining
SRH: INR 10.45 crore remaining. 1 overseas slots. 2 slots overall remaining
Tushar Deshpande UNSOLD
Karanveer Singh UNSOLD
Manimaran Siddharth, left arm spinner, goes to DC for 20L
J Suchith goes to SRH for 30L
KC Cariappa goes to RR for 20L
Sandeep Lamichhane UNSOLD
Australian pacer Riley Meredith finds takers in plenty. Punjab and DC go in hard at having him. Punjab in the lead at 7.5 cr. Some more fight from Delhi but its Preity Zinta and team who hold on.
Meredith SOLD to Punjab Kings for 8 crore
Mujtaba Yousuf, Ankit Rajpoot go Unsold. Lukman Meriwala i sold to DC for 20L. Saurashtra left-arm seamer Chetan Sakariya starts a bidding war between RCB and RR.
Chetan Sakariya sold to Royals for 1.2 crore
Vivek Singh goes UNSOLD
Vishnu Vinod - DC for 20 L
Sheldon Jackson - KKR for 20 L
Kedar Devdhar goes UNSOLD
Mohammed Azharudden - RCB for 20L
Avi Barot goes UNSOLD
Ayush Badoni, Iyer Venkatesh and Vivek Singh go unsold. KKR makes opening bid for Karnataka's Krishnappa Gowtham. The base price was 20 lakh, but SRH and KKR have a bidding war. But CSK swoops in late and get their man for Rs 9.25 crore.