IPL Auction 2021: These Teams Are Looking Stronger On-Paper After The Auctions

IPL Auction 2021 took place in Chennai on Thursday, February 18, 2021. BCCI shortlisted 292 players for the IPL auctions with a total of 164 Indian players, 125 overseas players, and 3 players from Associate Nations. A maximum of 61 players can be bought by eight franchise that includes 22 overseas players if all the teams manage to reach their squad size limit of 25. A team can have a maximum of 17 Indian players and 8 overseas players and for IPL 2021. Chris Morris is the most expensive buy in the history of IPL at INR 16.25 crore, followed by Kyle Jamieson at INR 15 crore, Glenn Maxwell at INR 14.25 crore, and Jhye Richardson at INR 14 crore.

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Maximum Base Price At IPL 2021 Auction

Rs 2 crore: Harbhajan Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Glenn Maxwell, Steve Smith, Shakib Al Hasan, Moeen Ali, Sam Billings, Liam Plunkett, Jason Roy, and Mark Wood.

Rs 1.5 crore: Alex Hales, Alex Carey, Dawid Malan, Morne Morkel, Gregory Lewis, David Willey, Tom Curran, Shaun Marsh, Adil Rashid, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Jhye Richardson, and Nathan Coulter-Nile.

Rs 1 crore: Hanuma Vihari, Umesh Yadav, Aaron Finch, Evin Lewis, Sheldon Cottrell, Mustafizur Rahman, Moises Henriques, Marnus Labuschagne, Jason Behrendorff, Billy Stanlake, Matthew Wade.

 

Team Looks After The Auction

Mumbai Indians

Rohit Sharma, Aditya Tare, Anmolpreet Singh, Anukul Roy, Dhawal Kulkarni, Hardik Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Jasprit Bumrah, Jayant Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Quinton de Kock, Rahul Chahar, Suryakumar Yadav, Trent Boult, Chris Lynn, Saurabh Tiwary, Mohsin Khan

New Buy

Adam Milne INR 3.20 Crore, Nathan Coulter Nile INR 5 Crore, Piyush Chawala INR 2.40 Crore, James Neesham INR 50 Lakhs, Yudhvir Charak INR 20 Lakhs, Macro Jansen INR 20 Lakhs, Arjun Tendulkar INR 20 Lakhs

 

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Virat KohliAB de Villiers, Devdutt Padikkal, Md. Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Joshua Phillipe, Pavan Deshpande, Daniel Sams, Harshal Patel, Shahbaz Ahmed, Adam Zampa, Kane Richardson

New Buy

Glenn Maxwell 14.25 Crore, Sachin Baby INR 20 Lakhs, Rajat Patidar INR 20 Lakhs, Mohammed Azharuddeen INR 20 Lakhs, Kyle Jamieson INR 15 Crore, Dan Christian INR 5.40 Crore, Suyash Prabhudessai INR 20 Lakhs, KS Bharat INR 20 Lakhs

 

Chennai Super Kings

MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, KM Asif, Deepak Chahar, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, N Jagadeesan, Karn Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shardul Thakur, Sam Curran, Robin Uthappa, Josh Hazlewood, R Sai Kishore.

New Buy

Moeen Ali INR 7 Crore, Krishnappa Gowtham INR 9.25 Crore, Cheteshwar Pujara INR 50 Lakhs, M Harishankar Reddy INR 20 Lakhs, K Bhagatha Varma INR 20 Lakhs, C Hari Nishaanth INR 20 Lakhs

 

Punjab Kings

KL Rahul, Arshdeep Singh, Chris Gayle, Darshan Nalkande, Harpreet Brar, Mandeep Singh, Mayank Agarwal, Mohd. Shami, M Ashwin, Nicholas Pooran, Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Ishan Porel, Ravi Bishnoi, Chris Jordan, Prabhsimran Singh

New Buy

David Malan INR 1.5 Crore, Jhye Richardson INR 14 Crore, Shahrukh Khan INR 5.25 Crore, Riley Meredith INR 8 Crore, Moises Henriques INR 4.20 Crore, Jalaj Saxena INR 30 Lakhs, Utkarsh Singh INR 20 Lakhs, Fabien Allen INR 75 Lakhs, Saurabh Kumar INR 20 Lakhs

 

Delhi Capitals

Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Axar Patel, Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Prithvi Shaw, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rishabh Pant, Shikhar Dhawan, Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Lalit Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Pravin Dubey, Chris Woakes.

New Buy

Steve Smith 2.20 Crore, Umesh Yadav 1 Crore, Ripal Patel INR 20 Lakhs, Vishnu Vinod INR 20 Lakhs, Lukman Hussain Meriwala INR 20 Lakhs, M Siddharth INR 20 Lakhs, Tom Curran INR 5.25 Crore, Sam Billings INR 2 Crore

 

Kolkata Knight Riders

Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Rinku Singh, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy, Tim Seifert

New Buy

Shakib Al Hasan 3.20 Crore, Sheldon Jackson INR 20 Lakhs, Vaibhav Arora INR 20 Lakhs, Karun Nair INR 50 Lakhs, Harbhajan Singh INR 2 Crore, Ben Cutting INR 75 Lakhs, Venkatesh Iyer INR 20 Lakhs, Pawan Negi INR 50 Lakhs

 

Sunrisers Hyderabad

David Warner, Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha, Virat Singh, Priyam Garg, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Abdul Samad

New Buy

Jagadeesha Sucith INR 30 Lakhs, Kedar Jadhav INR 2 Crore, Mujeeb Ur Rahman INR 1.5 Crore

 

Rajasthan Royals

Sanju Samson, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Mahipal Lomror, Manan Vohra, Mayank Markande, Rahul Tewatia, Riyan Parag, Shreyas Gopal, Jaydev Unadkat, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, Kartik Tyagi, David Miller, Andrew Tye

New Buy

Shivam Dube INR 4.4 Crore, Chris Morris INR 16.25 Crore, Mustafizur Rehman INR 1 Crore, Chetan Sakariya INR 1.20 Crore, KC Cariappa INR 20 Lakhs, Liam Livingstone INR 75 Lakhs, Kuldip Yadav INR 20 Lakhs, Akash Singh INR 20 Lakhs

 

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