In the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 auction in Dubai on Tuesday, something special happened. Mitchell Starc, an Australian player, became the most expensive player ever in IPL history. The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) bought him for a huge amount of INR 24.75 crores.
It was a big moment because another player, Pat Cummins, also from Australia, was bought for more than 20 crores by the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) team. This was the first time in IPL history that two players were bought for more than 20 crores in one auction.
Before this, the most expensive player was Sam Curran, an English player. He was bought by Punjab Kings (PBKS) for INR 18.50 crores in the last year's auction.
This year's IPL auction had 332 players from 13 countries. Among them, 216 were Indian players. After some players were kept by their teams, some were released, and some were traded, there were 77 spots left for the 10 teams to fill. Among these spots, 30 were for overseas players.
However, only 72 players were bought in the auction. Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) didn't buy their full quota of 25 players. But all 30 overseas player spots were filled.
Apart from Starc and Cummins, other players who got big contracts were Daryl Mitchell (bought by Chennai Super Kings for INR 14.00 cr), Harshal Patel (bought by Punjab Kings for INR 11.75 cr), Alzarri Joseph (bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 11.50 cr), and Spencer Johnson (bought by Gujarat Titans for INR 10 cr).
The auction also decided the squads for each team for IPL 2024. Each team had a mix of retained players and new ones bought in the auction. Here are the squads:
- Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
- Delhi Capitals (DC)
- Gujarat Titans (GT)
- Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
- Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)
- Mumbai Indians (MI)
- Punjab Kings (PBKS)
- Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
- Rajasthan Royals (RR)
- Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
Chennai Super Kings (CSK):
- Ajay Mandal
- Ajinkya Rahane
- Deepak Chahar
- Devon Conway*
- Maheesh Theekshana*
- Matheesha Pathirana*
- Mitchell Santner*
- Moeen Ali*
- MS Dhoni
- Mukesh Choudhary
- Nishant Sindhu
- Prashant Solanki
- Rajvardhan Hangargekar
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Ruturaj Gaikwad
- Shaik Rasheed
- Shivam Dube
- Simarjeet Singh
- Tushar Deshpande
- Rachin Ravindra* (auction - 1.80 cr)
- Shardul Thakur (auction - 4.00 cr)
- Daryl Mitchell* (auction - 14.00 cr)
- Sameer Rizvi (auction - 8.40 cr)
- Mustafizur Rahman* (auction - 2.00 cr)
- Avanish Rao Aravelly (auction - 20 lakh)
Delhi Capitals (DC):
- Abhishek Porel
- Anrich Nortje*
- Axar Patel
- David Warner*
- Ishant Sharma
- Kuldeep Yadav
- Lalit Yadav
- Lungisani Ngidi*
- Mitchell Marsh*
- Mukesh Kumar
- Pravin Dubey
- Prithvi Shaw
- Rishabh Pant
- Syed Khaleel Ahmed
- Vicky Ostwal
- Yash Dhull
- Harry Brook* (auction - 4.00 cr)
- Tristan Stubbs* (auction - 50 lakh)
- Ricky Bhui (auction - 20 lakh)
- Kumar Kushagra (auction - 7.20 cr)
- Rasikh Dar (auction - 20 lakh)
- Jhye Richardson* (auction - 5.00 cr)
- Sumit Kumar (auction - 1.00 cr)
- Shai Hope* (auction - 75 lakh)
- Swastik Chhikara (auction - 20 lakh)
Gujarat Titans (GT):
- Abhinav Manohar
- Sai Sudharsan
- Darshan Nalkande
- David Miller*
- Jayant Yadav
- Joshua Little*
- Kane Williamson*
- Matthew Wade*
- Mohammed Shami
- Mohit Sharma
- Noor Ahmad*
- R Sai Kishore
- Rahul Tewatia
- Rashid Khan*
- Shubman Gill
- Vijay Shankar
- Wriddhiman Saha
- Azmatullah Omarzai* (auction - 50 lakh)
- Umesh Yadav (auction - 5.80 cr)
- Shahrukh Khan (auction - 7.40 cr)
- Sushant Mishra (auction - 2.20 cr)
- Kartik Tyagi (auction - 60 lakh)
- Manav Suthar (auction - 20 lakh)
- Spencer Johnson* (auction - 10 cr)
- Robin Minz (auction - 3.60 cr)
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR):
- Nitish Rana
- Rinku Singh
- Rahmanullah Gurbaz*
- Shreyas Iyer
- Jason Roy*
- Sunil Narine*
- Suyash Sharma
- Anukul Roy
- Andre Russell*
- Venkatesh Iyer
- Harshit Rana
- Vaibhav Arora
- Varun Chakaravarthy
- KS Bharat (auction - 50 lakh)
- Chetan Sakariya (auction - 50 lakh)
- Mitchell Starc* (auction - 24.75 cr)
- Angkrish Raghuvanshi (auction - 20 lakh)
- Ramandeep Singh (auction - 20 lakh)
- Sherfane Rutherford* (auction - 1.50 cr)
- Manish Pandey (auction - 50 lakh)
- Mujeeb Ur Rehman* (auction - 2.00 cr)
- Gus Atkinson* (auction - 1.00 cr)
- Sakib Hussain (auction - 2.00 lakh)
