Unheralded architect-turned-cricketer Varun Chakravarthy Tuesday fetched a sensational bid of Rs 8.4 crore, more than 40 times his base price before veteran Yuvraj Singh finally found a buyer at the IPL players' auction that had an unmissable Caribbean flavour to it.


Chakravarthy, with a base price of Rs 20 lakh, went to Kings XI Punjab after a bidding war that also involved Delhi Capitals, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals.


KXIP, who had the maximum money going into the auction, also spent big on England all-rounder Sam Curran, buying him for Rs 7.2 crore, the most for an overseas player on Tuesday.


Yuvraj fans must have also heaved a sigh of relief when the 37-year-old was bought by Mumbai Indians for his base price of Rs 1 crore after going unsold initially.


Both uncapped and capped Indians were in demand at the auction. Medium pacer Jaydev Unadkat became a millionaire once again with a Rs 8.4 crore bid from Rajasthan Royals.


Little-known Indian teenagers Prabh Simran Singh and Prayas Ray Barman attracted astonishing bids during the IPL auction to laugh their way to the bank on a day when superstar Dale Steyn went unsold and once a hot-property Yuvraj Singh struggled to find a buyer.


Punjab's wicket-keeper batsman Prabh Simran, all of 18, was taken by Preity Zinta owned Kings XI Punjab for Rs 4.80 crore while Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore shelled out Rs 1.5 crore for 16-year-old Barman, who is an all-rounder from Bengal.


Both the players had a base price of Rs 20 lakh.


 


Chennai Super Kings


Bought this auction: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Mohit Sharma,


Retained Players: Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, MS Dhoni (wk), David Willey, Imran Tahir, Lungi Ngidi, Suresh Raina, Dwayne Bravo, Harbhajan Singh, Deepak Chahar, Faf du Plessis, Shane Watson, Karn Sharma, KM Asif, M Vijay, Kedar Jadhav, Shardul Thakur, Sam Billings (wk), Chaitanya Bishnoi, Monu Kumar, Ambati Rayudu, Dhruv Shorey, N Jagadeesan (wk).


 


Delhi Capitals


Bought this auction: Ankush Bains (wk), Jalaj Saxena, Bandaru Ayyappa, Hanuma Vihari, Keemo Paul, Nathu Singh, Sherfane Rutherford, Ishant Sharma, Colin Ingram, Axar Patel


Retained Players: Amit Mishra, Rahul Tewatia, Shreyas Iyer, Jayant Yadav, Shikhar Dhawan, Sandeep Lamichhane, Avesh Khan, Rishabh Pant (wk), Kagiso Rabada, Prithvi Shaw, Harshal Patel, Trent Boult, Colin Munro, Manjot Kalra, Chris Morris.


 


Kings XI Punjab


Bought this auction: Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Harpreet Brar, Murugan Ashwin, Arshdeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Agnivesh Ayachi, Hardus Vilojen, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Darshan Nalkande, Mohammed Shami, Sam Curran, Varun Chakarvarthy, Moises Henriques


Retained Players: Lokesh Rahul (wk), Andrew Tye, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Ravichandran Ashwin, Chris Gayle, Ankit Rajpoot, Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair, David Miller, Mandeep Singh.


 


Kolkata Knight Riders


Bought this Auction: Joe Denly, Shrikant Mundhe, Piyush Chawla, Prithvi Raj Yarra, Nikhil Naik (wk), Carlos Brathwaite, Harry Gurney, Anrich Nortje, Lockie Ferguson


Retained Players: Dinesh Karthik (wk), Andre Russell, Robin Uthappa (wk), Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Chris Lynn, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Shubman Gill, Shivam Mavi, Rinku Singh, Kamlesh Nagarkoti.



Mumbai Indians


Bought this Auction: Yuvraj Singh, Pankaj Jaswal, Mayank Markande, Rasikh Dar, Anmolpreet Singh, Barinder Sran, Lasith Malinga


Retained Players: Rohit Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya, Rahul Chahar, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Mitchell McClenaghan, Siddhesh Lad, Ben Cutting, Adam Milne, Aditya Tare (wk), Jason Behrendorff, Evin Lewis, Quinton de Kock (wk)


 


Rajasthan Royals


Bought this auction: Manan Vohra, Riyan Parag, Ish Sodhi, Oshane Thomas, Ashton Turner, Varun Aaron, Shubham Ranjane, Jaydev Unadkat, Liam Livingstone, Shashank Singh


Retained Players: Ajinkya Rahane, Mahipal Lomror, Sanju Samson (wk), Aryaman Birla, Dhawal Kulkarni, Prashant Chopra, S. Midhun, Rahul Tripathi, Krishnappa Gowtham, Steven Smith, Shreyas Gopal, Jos Buttler (wk), Stuart Binny, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer.


 


Royal Challengers Bangalore


Bought this auction: Himmat Singh, Akshdeep Nath, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Prayas Ray Barman, Devdutt Padikkal, Milind Kumar, Shimron Hetmyer, Shivam Dube, Gurkeerat Singh


Retained Players: Mohammed Siraj, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Virat Kohli, Navdeep Saini, Yuzvendra Chahal, Nathan Coulter-Nile, AB de Villiers, Washington Sundar, Kulwant Khejroliya, Parthiv Patel (wk), Pawan Negi, Moeen Ali, Colin de Grandhomme, Marcus Stoinis.


 


Sunrisers Hyderabad


Bought this auction: Martin Guptill, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Jonny Bairstow (wk)


Retained Players: Yusuf Pathan, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shakib Al Hasan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Sandeep Sharma, Mohammad Nabi, T Natarajan, Kane Williamson, Abhishek Sharma , Siddarth Kaul, David Warner, Vijay Shankar, Khaleel Ahmed, Manish Pandey, Billy Stanlake, Deepak Hooda, Basil Thampi, Ricky Bhui, Shreevats Goswami (wk)