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
Dale Steyn is unsold. No bids on the South African legend.
AJ Tye also goes unsold. The Australian's stock has really fallen in the last year and a half.
Rohan Kadam joins the unsold list.
Pavan Deshpande is sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for 20 lakh!
The Karnataka all-rounder is picked up at his base price.
No Bollywood story for Sharukh Khan - unsold again.
Hard-hitting left-arm all-rounder Daniel Sams also finds no takers a second time around. KS Bharat is similarly unsold.
Prabhsimran Singh is sold to the Kings XI Punjab for 55 lakh!
A bidding war of sorts for young Singh, who spent time with KXIP last year. They grab him back after trading bids with Delhi Capitals, though at a much smaller price than last year, when the 19-year-old was one of the shockingly expensive buys. He's from Punjab.
No takers for Ben Cutting. Unsold.
Colin Munro also fails to draw the paddles. No interest in the New Zealander.
Marcus Stoinis does have a couple of teams interested, and Delhi and Rajasthan push his price up to 2 crore...
Marcus Stoinis is sold to the Delhi Capitals for 4.8 crore!
Crikey! You don't often get bidding wars in this second phase but both Delhi and Rajasthan were keen to procure the all-rounder. He has had his troubles against spin in the past but at his best he is one of the better seam bowling all-rounders in the format with the ability to bat anywhere in the top seven and get through four economical overs. Delhi have an interesting group of overseas all-rounders, now, and Ricky Ponting will enjoy working with Stoinis.
Mark Wood goes unsold for a second time. A shame. He's the sort of skiddy quick who has found success in the IPL in the past. Tough to trust his body after so many injury issues, though, and Wood slips through the net.
That concludes the first accelerated phase. The second is even quicker - each team can name three players they would like to be brought back. One more cycle through those recalled, and that'll be that for the auction.
While we wait for the last round of bidding, just a reminder that Pat Cummins became the most expensive overseas purchase in IPL auction history earlier, sold for 15.5 crore, or roughly $2.2 million. That means he will earn about $10,000 per ball in the competition. Nice work if you can get it...
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