IPL AUCTION 2019, Round 3: KXIP gets Varun Chakravarthy for 8.4 Crores; Shivam Dubey sold to RCB for 5 crores

Tamil Nadu’s Varun Chakravarthy emerged as the winner in Round 3 of IPL Auction. Varun is all set to make his debut in the IPL, playing for Kings Xi Punjab after the franchise bought him for INR 8.4 Crores

BCCI CoA member Diana Edulji welcomed everyone for the auction and addresses the room in Jaipur as the IPL Auction got underway. She welcomed everyone and thanked all the teams, players and sponsors.

Basic Rules

Every franchise will make picks from the auction pool comprising a total of 351 players. Franchises minimum squad size has to be 18 and a maximum of 25. It is mandatory that every franchise spends a minimum Rs 61.5 crores out of their total purse of Rs 82 crores.

Auctions

Tamil Nadu’s Varun Chakravarthy emerged as the winner in Round 3 of IPL Auction. Varun is all set to make his debut in the IPL, playing for Kings Xi Punjab after the franchise bought him for INR 8.4 Crores.

He started playing cricket in school but struggled to make it to the big level. He quit cricket in Class XII, to do a five-year Architecture course, and worked in a firm for around two years. At 25, he decided to follow his dreams.

After a terrific Tamil Nadu Premier League, in just three years, Varun was on the radar of some IPL teams as he earned a name for himself as a mystery spinner.

The bid turned out to be really good for some uncapped kids.

Devdutt Pallikal gets a maiden IPL contract. He is sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for his base price of 20 lakhs.

While Sachin Baby remained unsold, Ankeet Bawane’s decent performance in the domestic circuit does not attract a bidder. He goes unsold in the IPL 2019 auctions. Manan Vohra, Sachin Baby and Ankeet Bawne all enter at Rs 20 lakh and all go unsold.

RCB and Mumbai Indians were engaged in a bidding war for Shivam Dubey but ultimately was sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for 5 crores. His base price was 20 lakhs.

He was first noticed due to his big-hitting prowess in the T20 Mumbai league where he had smashed five maximums in one over.

Shivam Dubey, the rising Mumbai all-rounder grabbed the light after smashing five sixes (just one day ahead of the 2019 IPL auction) against Baroda in the ongoing season of the Ranji Trophy. He has also slammed 2 centuries(114 against Railways; 110 against Gujarat) and three half-centuries so far in the tournament, amassing a total of 489 runs in 5 matches.

Punjab batsman Anmolpreet Singh entered with base price of Rs 20 lakh. He was in top form in the domestic season. And after a bidding war between MI and KXIP, he was snapped up by Mumbai Indians for Rs 80 lakh.

The 20-year dynamic batsman is also known as the run-machine of Punjab. He recently smashed two back-to-back centuries (141 & 138) against Goa and Karnataka in the Vijay Hazare trophy in the month of October. Later in the Deodhar Trophy, he opened for India A and scored a half-century against India C. He was named in the India A team for the recent tour of New Zealand where he slammed 71 runs off 80 balls in the third unofficial ODI.

India U19 captain Ayush Badoni goes unsold.