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
Ishan Porel is sold to Kings XI Punjab for his base price of 20 lakh!
Riley Meredith, tearaway quick most commonly sighted on the global stage with the Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash, fails to draw a bid. Unsold.
KC Cariappa has been picked up a couple of times at these auctions...
But the mystery spinner goes unsold.
Siddarth Manimaran is sold to the Kolkata Knight Riders for 20 lakh!
A new-ball darty spinner who has played under Dinesh Karthik with Tamil Nadu, and added to the spinning stocks in Kolkata.
Ravi Bishnoi does have teams intrigued. A leg-spinning all-rounder, and another Under-19...
Ravi Bishnoi is sold to the Kings XI Punjab for 2 crore!
Plenty of interest! Mumbai fancied Bishnoi but the Kings XI snared him at a hefty price.
R Sai Kishore goes unsold. That is surprising. Kishore has taken a lot of wickets in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, which is India's domestic state T20 competition.
Next up is the youngest player on the auction list - Afghanistan's leg-spinning prodigy Noor Ahmad, who is two weeks shy of his 15th, yes 15th!, birthday. No takers. You suspect his time will come, however. He'll be in South Africa for the U19 World Cup which begins shortly.
Stephen Fleming, head coach of the Chennai Super Kings, is pleased with the business his side has done: "We didn’t have too much money, but Sam Curran is really good for us. He could be a nice addition with his cutters and batting at Chepauk.
"They’re all different types of spinners, we want to maximise the talent. We rate him [Chawla] highly. At home, we have a method how we want to play. Away, Curran and Bravo give us options, and we still have a couple of pieces to add to that. We want to be a little more flexible in different conditions."
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