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It’s time for cricket fans to welcome the Indian Premier League back into their lives, albeit momentarily, with the mini player auction for the 16th edition of the league taking place on Friday, 23 December. IPL 2023 Auction: Players sold/unsold Complete squads: GT | SRH | RR | MI | PBKS | CSK | RCB | KKR | LSG | DC After having taken place in venues such as Bengaluru and Jaipur in recent years, it is time for the southern Indian city of Kochi to play host for the grand affair that will witness the franchises shell out millions for some of the most sought after players in the sport from across the globe. Nearly a thousand players had signed up for the mini auction this year, with less than half of them making it to the BCCI shortlist. From the 991 players that had registered, the board had originally shortlisted 369; it would then add another 36 at the behest of the franchises. MUST CHECK: IPL 2023 Auction: Players list, venue, date, time, livestream, purse remaining, rules, sold and unsold players; all you need to know A maximum of 87 players can be picked by the franchises from the 405 players that are set to go under the hammer on Friday, 30 of them overseas players. India wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan had fetched the highest bid in the mega-auction that took place in February earlier this year, and it remains to be seen if that bid can be surpassed this year. Read all the Latest News , Trending News , Cricket News , Bollywood News , India News and Entertainment News here. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram .
IPL 2023 Auction Highlights: Curran becomes most expensive player ever; Rossouw, Root get picked in accelerated round
IPL 2023 Auction Highlights: Rilee Rossouw goes to Delhi Capitals for Rs 4.6 crore while other players such as Joe Root, Shakib Al Hasan and Adam Zampa, who went unsold early in the auction, get picked during the accelerated round.
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And with that, we come to the end of our coverage of the IPL 2023 mini auction, an event where franchises splurged cash like never before with three of the most expensive purchases of all time occurring in a single edition!
English cricket certainly is packed to the rafters with superstars, especially in the shortest format, and it showed with the likes of Sam Curran (Rs 18.5 crore), Ben Stokes (Rs 16.25 crore), Harry Brook (Rs 13.25 crore).
The Aussies and the Caribbean boys weren’t ignored either, with Cameron Green (Rs 17.5 crore) nearly eclipsing Curran’s record and Nicholas Pooran fetching Rs 16 crore to become the most expensive West Indian ever.
Click here for full list of sold and unsold playersAnd that’s all that we have until March as far as IPL action is concerned. This is Amit signing off, bidding you all good night!
IPL Auction LIVE Updates
— Joe Root goes to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 1 crore
— Shakib Al Hasan goes to Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 1.5 crore
— Wayne Parnell remains unsold at Rs 75 lakh
— Ekant Sen remains unsold at Rs 20 lakh.
And that’s that at the IPL 2023 Player Auction!
IPL Auction LIVE
Here’s how things stand for KKR, RR and PBKS, the only teams with slots left to fill:
PBKS: Three slots left with Rs 12.25 crore remaining
KKR: Five slots left with Rs 3.15 crore remaining
RR: One slot remaining with Rs 4.35 crore remaining
IPL 2023 Auction LIVE Updates
All-rounder Abdul PA goes to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 20 lakh.
He is supposed to be the final player to go under the hammer, but because teams such as KKR, RR and PBKS still have slots left in their squads, we might have another quick round.
IPL 2023 Auction LIVE
— Raghav Goyal goes to MI for Rs 20 lakh
— Prashant Chopra remains unsold.
IPL 2023 mini auction LIVE Updates
— Dilshan Madushanka remains unsold at Rs 50 lakh.
— England’s Luke Wood too goes unsold at Rs 1 crore
— Yudhvir Charak gets an opening bid from LSG for Rs 20 lakh, and eventually goes to the franchise.
IPL 2023 mini auction LIVE
— Akash Vashisht gets picked up by RR for Rs 20 lakh
— Naveen-Ul-Haq goes to LSG for Rs 50 lakh
— Johnson Charles, Suryansh Shedge, Akash Singh find no takers.
IPL Auction LIVE Updates
— KM Asif, Murugan Ashwin goes to the Royals for Rs 30 lakh and 20 lakh respectively.
— KKR open the bid for Mandeep Singh at Rs 50 lakh and secure his services in the end.
— South Africans Rassie van der Dussen and Wayne Parnell remain unsold.
— Akeal Hosein joins SRH at Rs 1 crore.
IPL Auction LIVE
— Adam Zampa goes to the Rajasthan Royals for Rs 1.5 crore
— Anmolpreet Singh goes to the Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 20 lakh
— Dinesh Bana remains unsold.
IPL 2023 Auction LIVE Updates
— Rossouw goes to Delhi Capitals for Rs 4.60 crore, the Capitals persisting with him after some stiff competition from RR
— Bangladesh’s Litton Das then goes to KKR for his base price of Rs 50 lakh.
— Sri Lanka’s Kusal Mendis remains unsold.
IPL 2023 Auction LIVE
We’re back with the final round of the auction — the second part of the accelerated round — and the first player from this list to go under the hammer is South Africa’s Rilee Rossouw, who had earlier gone unsold!
IPL Auction LIVE Updates
— CSK, RCB and GT have reached the maximum player count in their squads (25) and can take no further part in the auction regardless of the funds remaining in their purse.
— DC have just one slot left with over nine crore remaining. MI, SRH and LSG have two slots remaining each, PBKS have three with over 12 crore left while KKR and RR have six slots vacant in their squads.
— DC, MI, LSG and SRH can nominate three more players for the remainder of the accelerated auction, while the remaining franchises — KKR, RR and PBKS — can nominate six.
IPL Auction LIVE
Purse left:
DC: Rs 9.05 crore
KKR: Rs 4.15 crore
LSG: Rs 4.25 crore
MI: Rs 25 lakh
PBKS: Rs 12.20 crore
RR: Rs 6.75 crore
SRH: Rs 7.75 crore
IPL Auction LIVE Updates
— Mohit Rathee and Shivam Singh go to Punjab Kings for their base price of Rs 20 lakh.
— MI successfully bid for Nehal Wadhera for his base price of Rs 20 lakh
— Bhagath Varma goes to CSK for Rs 20 lakh.
We have a 15-minute recess now, during which time the franchises will have to come up with their picks for the remainder of the accelerated auction.
IPL 2023 Auction LIVE
— Kunal Rathore goes to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 20 lakh
— Sonu Yadav goes to RCB for his base price of 20 lakh, and members of the RCB management are seen fist-bumping each other after the deal.
— Kulwant Khejroliya goes to KKR for 20 lakh
— Ajay Mandal goes to CSK for Rs 20 lakh
— B Surya, R Sanjay, Jitendra Pal, Utkarsh Singh, Shubham Kapse, H Trilog Nag, Deepesh Nailwal, Shubhang Hegde are unsold.
IPL 2023 Auction LIVE Updates
— Sam Curran’s brother Tom is up next, and he goes unsold at his base price of Rs 75 lakh
— Veteran India seamer Varun Aaron too finds no takers. No bidders for Priyank Panchal either.
IPL 2023 Auction LIVE
— Avinash Singh goes to RCB for Rs 60 lakh
— England teen sensation Rehan Ahmed finds no takers!
IPL 2023 mini auction LIVE Updates
— South Africa-born Namibian all-rounder David Wiese goes for KKR for his base price of Rs 1 crore after the two-time champions’ opening bid is uncontested.
— SRH get Nitish Kumar Reddy for Rs 20 lakh
— Ajitesh Guruswamy, R Sanjay Yadav are unsold
IPL 2023 mini auction LIVE
— Shams Mulani to represent MI after getting picked up for Rs 20 lakh
— Swapnil Singh goes for LSG for 20 lakh
— Himanshu Singh, Sumeet Verma are unsold
IPL Auction LIVE Updates
— Afghanistan’s Naveen-ul-Haq is unsold, as is Sri Lanka’s Dilshan Madushanka.
— Ireland’s Joshua Little, meanwhile, attracts quite the battle between GT and LSG, with the bid going past the 4-crore mark in quick time. The Titans eventually secure his services for Rs 4.40 crore!
— Mohit Sharma goes to Gujarat Titans for Rs 50 lakh
IPL Auction LIVE
— Vidwath Kaverappa joins PBKS for Rs 20 lakh
— RCB and KKR tussle for Rajan Kumar and it is the Royal Challengers who ultimately secure his services for Rs 70 lakh
— Suyash Sharma is picked up by KKR for Rs 20 Lakh
— Paul van Meekeren, Akash Singh, Tejas Baroka, Yuvraj Chudasama, Richard Gleeson and Jamie Overton are all unsold!
IPL 2023 Auction LIVE Updates
— South Africa’s Donovan Ferreira goes to Rajasthan Royals at Rs 50 Lakh after a brief tussle with Kolkata Knight Riders.
— Gujarat Titans make the opening bid for Urvil Patel and ultimately secure him for Rs 20 lakh.
— Vishnu Vinod goes to Mumbai Indians for Rs 20 lakh.
— Baba Indrajith and Karan Shinde both at 20 lakh, go unsold.
IPL 2023 Auction LIVE
— Duan Jansen goes to Mumbai Indians, the franchise his twin brother Marco had represented, for his base price of Rs 20 Lakh
— Prerak Mankad goes to LSG for 20 Lakh
— Suryansh Shedge is unsold at his base price of Rs 20 Lakh, as is Jagadeesha Suchith at the same price.
IPL 2023 mini auction LIVE Updates
Quite the fierce bidding going on for Himachal Pradesh all-rounder Mayank Dagar, who eventually is sold to the Sunrisers for Rs 1.8 crore from his base price of 20 lakh, with the Royals jumping in and battling it out for him.
IPL 2023 mini auction LIVE
— Harpreet Bhatia goes to PBKS for Rs 40 lakh after KKR raise his price.
— England’s Will Smeed goes unsold at his base price of Rs 30 lakh
— Manoj Bhandage is sold to RCB for his base price of Rs 20 lakh
IPL Auction LIVE Updates
The action resumes at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Kochi, with the accelerated auction getting underway right now
The first name on the list is leg-spinner Piyush Chawla, and he goes to Mumbai Indians for his base price of Rs 50 lakh.
Fellow leggie Amit Mishra too is sold for Rs 50 lakh to Lucknow Super Giants.
IPL Auction LIVE
“We will definitely get a captain. Bhuvi is definitely there. But at the end of the day, the management will decide”
Sri Lankan spin legend and member of the SRH coaching staff Muttiah Muralitharan remains coy on the decision of finding Kane Williamson’s successor at the Orange Army.
IPL 2023 Auction LIVE Updates
Top five buys so far:
Sam Curran — Punjab Kings, Rs 18.5 crore
Cameron Green — Mumbai Indians, Rs 17.5 crore
Ben Stokes — Chennai Super Kings, Rs 16.25 crore
Nicholas Pooran — Lucknow Super Giants, Rs 16 crore
Harry Brook — Sunrisers Hyderabad, Rs 13.25 crore
IPL 2023 Auction LIVE
Purse left:
CSK: Rs 1.9 crore
RCB: Rs 3.45 crore
DC: Rs 9.05 crore
GT: Rs 9.55 crore
KKR: Rs 5.55 crore
LSG: Rs 5.15 crore
MI: Rs 1.55 crore
PBKS: Rs 13.20 crore
RR: Rs 7.45 crore
SRH: Rs 9.75 crore
West Indian legend and SRH head coach Brian Lara on the franchise going after Mayank Agarwal and Harry Brook earlier in the auction.
Punjab Kings co-owner Ness Wadia opens up on the franchise breaking the bank and creating a new IPL auction record to get English all-rounder Sam Curran after losing him to Chennai Super Kings.
And with that, it’s time for the action in Kochi to hit the pause button as auctioneer Hugh Edmeades announces a 45-minute interval.
The franchises will now have to submit 10 names from player number 87 to 405 in ascending numerical order for the accelerated auction — which will take place on the other side of the break.
IPL 2023 mini auction LIVE Updates
New Zealand’s Kyle Jamieson is the final player to go under the hammer before the extended break, and he goes to CSK for his base price of Rs 1 crore!
IPL 2023 mini auction LIVE
— Sandeep Sharma (IND), Taskin Ahmed (BAN), Dushmantha Chameera (SL) and Blessing Muzarabani (ZIM) all of them valued at Rs 50 lakh, find no takers.
IPL Auction LIVE Updates
Set 13 is capped fast bowlers, and Australia’s Riley Meredith (Rs 1.5 crore) is the first name to appear in this list, and he goes unsold!
IPL Auction LIVE
— New Zealand’s Daryl Mitchell goes unsold at his base price of Rs 1 crore
— Ex-MI all-rounder Daniel Sams goes to Lucknow for Rs 75 lakh
— Former SRH all-rounder Mohammad Nabi goes unsold!
— Wayne Parnell (75L), Jimmy Neesham (2Cr) and Dasun Shanaka (50L) too find no takers.
That concludes Set 12.
IPL 2023 Auction LIVE Updates
Next up we have Set 12 — capped all-rounders. The first name from this list is West Indies’ Romario Shepherd, who goes to Lucknow Super Giants for his base price of Rs 50 lakh.
IPL 2023 Auction LIVE
— Australis’s Travis Head is unsold for his base price of Rs 2 crore
— Mandeep Singh starts at Rs 50 lakh and fails to find any takers
— England’s Dawid Malan is the final name in the list, and fails to get any takers at his base price of Rs 1.5 crore.
IPL 2023 mini auction LIVE Updates
— West Indies’ Sherfane Rutherford (Rs 1.5 crore) is unsold.
— England’s Will Jacks goes to RCB for a sum of Rs 3.2 crore from his base price of 1.5 crore, following a bit of a tussle with RR.
IPL 2023 mini auction LIVE
South Africa’s Rassie van der Dussen is next at Rs 2 crore, and he fails to get a bid, joining fellow Protea Rossouw in the unsold list.