While some of the big stalwarts in Glen Maxwell, Pat Cummins, Aaron Finch and Shimron Hetmyer racked in rich moolah, the auction also threw up surprises with seasoned campaigners in Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Tim Southee and Evin Lewis finding no takers.
From an Indian standpoint, Piyush Chawla was the most expensive buy, being fetched at whooping 6.75 crores by Chennai. However, previous IPL campaigners like Yusuf Pathan, Naman Ojha, Staurt Binny were the major names that went unsold.
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So here is the complete list of retained player and those who were bought by the 8 franchisees in the auction. A look at how the eight teams stack up before the Indian Premier League season 13 kicks off next year
Chennai Super Kings
Retained players: Shane Watson, Ambati Rayudu, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, Kedar Jadhav, N Jagadeesan, M Vijay, Rituraj Gaikwad, MS Dhoni (wk), Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, Monu Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, KM Asif
Players bought at Auction: Piyush Chawla (Rs 6.75 Crore), Sam Curran (Rs 5.5 Crore), Josh Hazlewood (Rs 2 Crore), R Sai Kishore (Rs 20 Lakhs)
Delhi Capitals
Retained players: Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Prithvi Shaw, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk), Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, R Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Sandeep Lamichhane, Kagiso Rabada, Ishant Sharma, Keemo Paul, Avesh Khan
Players bought at Auction: Shimron Hetmyer (Rs 7.75 Crore), Marcus Stoinis (Rs 1 Crore), Alex Carey (Rs 2.4 Crore), Jason Roy (Rs 1.5 Crore), Chris Woakes (Rs 1.5 Crore), Mohit Sharma (Rs 50 Lakhs), Tushar Deshpande (Rs 20 Lakhs), Lalit Yadav (Rs 20 Lakhs)
Kings XI Punjab
Retained Players: KL Rahul (wk), Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair, Mandeep Singh, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Murugan Ashwin, Mujeeb-ur-Rahman, K. Gowtham, J. Suchith, Harpreet Brar, Mohammed Shami, Hardus Viljoen, Arshdeep Singh, Darshan Nalkande
Players bought at Auction: Glenn Maxwell (Rs 10.75 Crore), Sheldon Cottrell (Rs 8.5 Crore), Ravi Bishnoi (Rs 2 Crore), Prabhsimran Singh (Rs 55 Lakhs), Deepak Hooda (Rs 50 Lakh), James Neesham (Rs 50 Lakh), Ishan Porel (Rs 20 Lakh), Chris Jordan (Rs 75 Lakhs), Tajinder Dhillon (Rs 20 Lakhs)
Kolkata Knight Riders
Retained Players: Shubman Gill, Siddesh Lad, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Rinku Singh, Nitish Rana, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Harry Gurney, Lockie Ferguson, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier
Players bought at Auction: Pat Cummins (Rs 15.5 Crore), Eoin Morgan (Rs 5.25 Crore), Varun Chakravarthy (Rs 4 Crore), Tom Banton (Rs 1 Crore), Rahul Tripathi (Rs 60 Lakh), Pravin Tambe (Rs 20 Lakhs), M Siddharth (Rs 20 Lakh), Chris Green (Rs 20 Lakhs), Nikhil Naik (Rs 20 Lakhs)
Mumbai Indians
Retained Players: Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Quinton de Kock (wk), Aditya Tare (wk), Anmolpreet Singh, Kieron Pollard, Ishan Kishan (wk), Sherfane Rutherford, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Lasith Malinga, Trent Boult, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mitchell McClenaghan
Players bought at Auction: Nathan Coulter-Nile (Rs 8 Crore), Chris Lynn (Rs 2 Crore), Saurabh Tiwary (Rs 50 Lakh), Mohsin Khan (Rs 20 Lakhs), Digvijay Deshmukh (Rs 20 Lakhs), Prince Balwant Rai Singh (Rs 20 Lakhs)
Rajasthan Royals
Retained Players: Jos Buttler (wk), Steve Smith, Sanju Samson (wk), Manan Vohra, Riyan Parag, Ben Stokes, Mahipal Lomror, Shashank Singh, Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Tewatia, Mayank Markande, Jofra Archer, Ankit Rajpoot, Varun Aaron
Players bought at Auction: Robin Uthappa (Rs 3 Crore), Jaydev Unadkat (Rs 3 Crore), Yashasvi Jaiswal (Rs 2.4 Crore), Kartik Tyagi (Rs 1.3 Crore), Andrew Tye (Rs 1 Crore), Tom Curran (Rs 1 Crore), Anuj Rawat (Rs 80 Lakh), David Miller (Rs 75 Lakh), Oshane Thomas (Rs 50 Lakhs), Aakash Singh (Rs 20 Lakh), Anirudha Joshi (Rs 20 Lakhs)
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Retained Players: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Devdutt Padikkal, Parthiv Patel (wk), Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Siraj
Players bought at Auction: Chris Morris (Rs 10 Crore), Aaron Finch (Rs 4.4 Crore), Dale Steyn (Rs 2 Crores), Dale Steyn (Rs 2 Crores), Kane Richardson (Rs 1.5 Crores), Isuru Udana (Rs 50 Lakhs), Joshua Philippe (Rs 20 Lakhs), Pavan Deshpande (Rs 20 Lakhs)
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Players Retained: David Warner, Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Manish Pandey, Sreevats Goswami (wk), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Vijay Shankar, Mohammad Nabi, Abhishek Sharma, Rashid Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Basil Thampi, T. Natarajan, Billy Stanlake
Players bought at Auction: Mitchell Marsh (Rs 2 Crore), Priyam Garg (Rs 1.9 Crore), Virat Singh (Rs 1.9 Crore), Fabian Allen (Rs 50 Lakhs), Sandeep Bavanaka (Rs 20 Lakhs), Abdul Samad (Rs 20 Lakhs), Sanjay Yadav (Rs 20 Lakhs)