The culmination of the IPL mini-auction has officially kicked off the road to the 14th edition of the Indian Premier League. Money was shelled out and records were broken as the franchises gathered to form their perfect squad to compete for the title.
Rookie fast bowlers stole the show at the auction this time around with Jhye Richardson, Kyle Jamieson, Riley Meredith grabbing big bucks at the event. Chris Morris became the most expensive player of all time with a record 16.25 Crore bid set by the Rajasthan Royals.
On the other hand, Krishnappa Gowtham became the most expensive Indian uncapped player after CSK bought him for Rs 9.25 Cr, breaking the 8 Cr price stag set by Mumbai Indians on Krunal Pandya.
To end the auction, Arjun Tendulkar was the last name called out, who found a suitor in the form of the defending champions, Mumbai Indians.
Mumbai Indians
Retained squad members
Rohit Sharma (c), Hardik Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Anmolpreet Singh, Quinton de Kock, Kieron Pollard, Aditya Tare, Krunal Pandya, Jayant Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Chris Lynn, Dhawal Kulkarni, Rahul Chahar, Anukul Roy, Saurabh Tiwary, Mohsin Khan.
Adam Milne, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Piyush Chawla, Jimmy Neesham, Yudhvir Charak, Marco Jansen, Arjun Tendulkar
Chennai Super Kings
Retained squad members
MS Dhoni (c), Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Faf du Plessis, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Robin Uthappa, Ravindra Jadeja, Deepak Chahar, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Imran Tahir, Sam Curran, Karn Sharma, N. Jagdeesan, KM Asif, Sai Kishore, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Santner, Josh Hazlewood
Players bought in IPL 2021 Auction
Moeen Ali, K Gowtham, Cheteshwar Pujara, M Harisankar Reddy, K Bhagath Varma, C Hari Nishaanth
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Retained squad members
Virat Kohli (c), AB de Villiers, Devdutt Padikkal, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammad Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Pavan Deshpande, Shahbaz Ahamad, Harshal Patel, Josh Philippe, Adam Zampa, Kane Richardson, Daniel Sams
Players bought in IPL 2021 Auction
Glenn Maxwell, Sachin Baby, Rajat Patidar, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Kyle Jamieson, Daniel Christian, Suyash Prabhudessai, KS Bharat
Kolkata Knight Riders
Retained squad members
Eoin Morgan (c), Dinesh Karthik, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Tim Seifert, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Shivam Mavi, Lockie Ferguson, Pat Cummins, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Sandeep Warrier, Prasidh Krishna, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy
Players bought in IPL 2021 Auction
Shakib Al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson, Vaibhav Arora, Harbhajan Singh, Karun Nair, Ben Cutting, Venkatesh Iyer, Pawan Negi
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Retained squad members
Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow, David Warner, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Manish Pandey, Vijay Shankar, Sreevats Goswami, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Wriddhiman Saha, Abhishek Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, Shahbaz Nadeem, Basil Thampi, T. Natarajan, Virat Singh, Priyam Garg, Abdul Samad.
Players bought in IPL 2021 Auction
Kedar Jadhav, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Jagadeesha Suchith
Delhi Capitals
Retained squad members
Shreyas Iyer (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Ishant Sharma, Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Axar Patel, Avesh Khan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Lalit Yadav, Pravin Dubey, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Chris Woakes.
Players bought in IPL 2021 Auction
Steve Smith, Umesh Yadav, Ripal Patel, Vishnu Vinod, Lukman Hussain Meriwala, M Siddharth, Tom Curran, Sam Billings
Rajasthan Royals
Retained squad members
Sanju Samson (c), Jos Buttler, Manan Vohra, Riyan Parag, Ben Stokes, Shreyas Gopal, Mahipal Lomror, David Miller, Mayank Markande, Rahul Tewatia, Jaydev Unadkat, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, Kartik Tyagi, Jofra Archer, Andrew Tye
Players bought in IPL 2021 Auction
Shivam Dube, Chris Morris, Mustafizur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya, KC Cariappa, Liam Livingstone, Kuldip Yadav, Akash Singh
Punjab Kings
Retained squad members
KL Rahul (c), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Mandeep Singh, Nicholas Pooran, Sarfraz Khan, Mohammad Shami, Murugan Ashwin, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Darshan Nalkande, Deepak Hooda, Ishan Porel, Ravi Bishnoi, Prabhsimran Singh, Chris Jordan
Players bought in IPL 2021 Auction
Dawid Malan, Jhye Richardson, Shahrukh Khan, Riley Meredith, Moises Henriques, Jalaj Saxena, Utkarsh Singh, Fabian Allan, Saurabh Kumar
Here is the list of the unsold players
Alex Hales, Sheldon Cotterel, Kusal Perera Alex Carey Glen Philipps, Hanuma Vihari, Aaron Finch, Jason Roy, Evin Lewis, Qais Ahmad, Ayush Badoni, Vivek Singh, Kedar Devdhar, Avi Barot, Rovman Powell Shaun Marsh, Corey Anderson, Devon Conway, Darren Bravo, Rassie Van Dussen, Martin Guptill Sandeep Lamichhane, Pawan Deshpande, Karanveer Singh, Naveen Ul Haq, Billy Stanlake, Mohit Sharma, Oshane Thomas, Varun Aaron, Marnus Labuschagne, Gurkeerat Mann, Rahul Sharma, Karan Sharma, KL Shrijith, G Periyaswamy, Ben Dwarshuis Ben Mcdermott, Matthew Wade, Sean Abbott, Siddhesh Lad, Prerak Mankad, Josh Inglis, Simarjeet Singh, M Hari Shankar reddy, Scott Kuggelejin, George Linde, Chaitanya Bishnoi
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