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
Round 2 is imminent. Here are the names going under the hammer. Another round of capped stars, including a number of players who enjoyed breakthrough years in 2019. Sheldon Cottrell is expected to fetch a decent price, while Alex Carey has been a hot name, too. A couple of familiar Indian names in the group, too.
Wicketkeepers: Alex Carey, Shai Hope, Heinrich Klaasen, Kusal Perera, Mushfiqur Rahim
Fast bowlers: Sheldon Cottrell, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Mohit Sharma, Tim Southee, Dale Steyn, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat
Spinners: Piyush Chawla, Zahir Khan, Ish Sodhi, Hayden Walsh Jr., Adam Zampa
Alex Carey first under the hammer. 50 lakh his base price. Overseas wicketkeeper, consistent opening batsman with the Strikers in the Big Bash and with middle-order versatility. He had an impressive summer in England with Australia and as Sussex's T20 Blast overseas.
Quiet start...
RCB come in, as do Rajasthan and the Delhi Capitals. RCB push up beyond 1 crore...
RCB bid 1.8 crore. They need a wicket-keeper, with only Parthiv Patel on their roster...
But Delhi Capitals come in and snatch Alex Carey at 2.4 crore!
Carey is off to the IPL for the first time, and he'll compete Rishabh Pant for the gloves at Delhi. That batting order is going to be incredibly strong.
The next two wicketkeepers both draw no bids. Heinrich Klaasen earned deals the last two years on the back of an impressive T20 series against India a couple of years ago but has largely failed to make an impact since, and the South African goes unsold, while Mushfiqur Rahim of Bangladesh also fails to tempt a franchise to make a bid.
Not a good day for wicketkeepers - Shai Hope (West Indies), Kusal Perera (Sri Lanka) and Naman Ojha (India) all fail to pique anyone's interest.
That concludes the first group of Round 2. On to the capped bowlers, starting with veteran Mohit Sharma...
Sharma goes unsold. He has an injury at the moment, but got a big deal last year from Chennai, his old stomping ground. No such luck this season.
Dale Steyn...
Unsold. Impressed as an injury replacement last year but the South African has had a troublesome time with injuries himself and there are no takers.
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