IPL 2020 Auction: List of confirmed players and teams for this year’s tournament
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Your support makes all the difference.Pat Cummins became the most expensive overseas purchase in Indian Premier League (IPL) history as the Kolkata Knight Riders spent more than £1.6 million on the Australian fast bowler in the 2020 IPL Auction.
England limited overs captain Eoin Morgan was also bought by the Knight Riders, while there was also a big deal for all-rounder Sam Curran, who was bought by the Chennai Super Kings.
Australian superstar Glenn Maxwell, seam-bowling all-rounder Chris Morris of South Africa and West Indian left-arm fast bowler Sheldon Cottrell were three of the other marquee purchases as a number of high-profile names went under the hammer at the showpiece event in Kolkata.
Morgan will be joined at the Knight Riders by budding star Tom Banton, with the Somerset opening batsman set to get a first taste of T20 cricket’s premier franchise competition in 2020 after receiving a £110k deal.
Chris Jordan, Tom Curran, Chris Woakes and Jason Roy were also purchased in the auction, taking the English contingent in next year’s competition to 13. Harry Gurney, Jofra Archer, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow, Moeen Ali and Jos Buttler were all retained by their teams before the auction.
Catch up on the auction as it happened below:
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Five biggest signings of the auction
£1.6 million: Pat Cummins, Kolkata Knight Riders.
£1.15 million: Glenn Maxwell, Kings XI Punjab
£1.1 million: Chris Morris, Royal Challengers Bangalore
£910k: Sheldon Cottrell, Kings XI Punjab
£855k: Nathan Coulter-Nile, Mumbai Indians
Where England stars will play in the IPL in 2020
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Moeen Ali
Kings XI Punjab: Chris Jordan
Delhi Capitals: Jason Roy, Chris Woakes
Chennai Super Kings: Sam Curran
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Jonny Bairstow
Kolkata Knight Riders: Eoin Morgan, Tom Banton, Harry Gurney
Mumbai Indians:
Rajasthan Royals: Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Tom Curran
Alzarri Joseph took six for 12 as an injury replacement last year, but struggled afterwards, and goes unsold.
Mustafizur Rahman was once an IPL star with the Sunrisers, but his form has dipped in the last two years, and he's another who draws vacant stares from the eight teams.
Josh Hazlewood is sold to the Chennai Super Kings for 2 crore!
A little bit under-the-radar in the shortest format, but a consistent operator and a useful option on a slow Chennai pitch.
Adam Milne goes unsold, and that'll do us for the opening session.
Time for a break - we pause for an hour. The auction will be back in a bit.
There is still a little while before we resume in Kolkata, but here is a quick rundown of how the next phase will work. The second half of the auction is "accelerated", with each of the eight IPL teams submitting a list of ten players that they would like brought under the hammer before the afternoon ends. These can be players who have not been auctioned yet, or those who went unsold this morning.
There are still some big names yet to come up for auction. We are expecting rising English top-order batsman Tom Banton (pictured) to be brought under the hammer, while Chris Jordan and Tom Curran could also be listed.
Those who went unsold but are recalled will have their base prices lowered.
Chris Lynn is excited to have joined Mumbai Indians. He's been in some fair form recently, bishing and bashing it all over the UAE at the T10 competition in Abu Dhabi. If Mumbai can keep him fit and encourage him to play naturally, he could be a bargain at a relatively low price.
Bavanaka Sandeep is sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for 20 lakh!
A local lad picked up by Sunrisers.
Chris Green is sold to the Kolkata Knight Riders for 20 lakh!
An absolute bargain. A tall off-spinner who excels with the new ball, subtle variations delivered accurately and consistently, and very useful with the bat, too. Excellent fielder and an emerging leader. One of the smartest pick-ups of the auction so far by KKR.
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