IPL 2020 Auction: 8 Franchises Splurge Around Rs 140 Crores To Buy 62 Players

With 338 players in the fray and 73 slots up for the taking, 62 players eventually got sold in the IPL Player auctions that lasted over six hours.

The players auction for Indian Premier League 2020 season held in Kolkata on Thursday saw the eight teams bidding aggressively to get their picks with an aim to fine tune and balance their squads for the thirteenth edition of the tournament, slated to be played next year. With 338 players in the fray and 73 slots up for the taking, 62 players eventually got sold in the auctions that lasted over almost six hours. Pat Cummins re-wrote the auction record books after the Aussie speedster racked up a whooping Rs 15.5 crore to become the most expensive overseas buy till date. Joining Cummins as the most lucrative picks of the day were his Australian team-mate Glen Maxwell and South African all-rounder Chris Morris who all fetched prices over 10 crores in the auctions. A total of approximately Rs 1.4 billion was splurged by the eight teams with Rajasthan Royals heading the pack with 11 buys. Following is a summarised lowdown of the IPL auction here: Total Money Spent by 8 Franchises: 1,40, 30,00,000 (Rs 1.4 billion approx) Total slots vacant in 8 teams: 73 Total slots filled up by 8 teams: 62 Total Overseas Players bought: 29 Biggest Buy at Auction: Pat Cummins (Australia, KKR) Rs 15.50 crore (Highest paid overseas recruit in history of IPL) Biggest Indian Buy at Auction: Piyush Chawla (India, CSK) Rs 6.75 crore HERE IS DETAILED BREAKDOWN OF HOW MUCH FRANCHISES SPENT AND WHICH PLAYERS THEY BOUGHT Chennai Super Kings Amount Spent : Rs 14.45 crore Buys (4) Piyush Chawla (Indian leg-spinner) Rs 6.75 crore Sam Curran (England All-rounder) Rs 5.50 crore Josh Hazlewood (Australia fast bowler) Rs 2 crore R Sai Kishore (Indian left-arm spinner) Rs 20 lakh Delhi Capitals Amount Spent : Rs 18.85 crore Buys (8) Shimron Hetmyer (WI Batsman) Rs 7.75 crore Marcus Stoinis (Australia All-Rounder) Rs 4.80 crore Alex Carey (Australia WK) Rs 2.40 crore Jason Roy (England batsman) Rs 1.50 crore Chris Woakes (England All-Rounder) Rs 1,50 crore Mohit Sharma (Indian medium pacer) Rs 50 lakh Tushar Deshpande (Indian fast bowler) Rs 20 lakh Lalit Yadav (Indian All-Rounder) Rs 20 lakh Kings XI Punjab Amount Spent: Rs 26.20 crore Buys (9) Glenn Maxwell (Australia, batsman) Rs 10.75 crore Sheldon Cottrell (WI, pacer) Rs 8.50 crore Chris Jordan (England, pacer) Rs 3 crore Ravi Bishnoi (Indian leg-spinner) Rs 2 crore Prabhsimran Singh (Indian wk) Rs 55 lakh Deepak Hooda (Indian batsman) Rs 50 lakh Jimmy Neesham (NZ all-rounder) Rs 50 lakh Tejinder Dhillon (Indian batsman) Rs 20 lakh

 Ishan Porel (Indian pacer) Rs 20 lakh

Kolkata Knight Riders Amount Spent: Rs 27.15 crore Buys (9) Pat Cummins (Australia pacer) Rs 15.50 crore Eoin Morgan (England Batsman) Rs 5.25 crore Varun Chakaravarthy (Indian spinner) Rs 4 crore Tom Banton (England batsman) Rs 1 crore Rahul Tripathi (Indian batsman) Rs 60 lakh Chris Green (Australia All-Rounder) Rs 20 lakh Nikhil Naik (Indian WK) Rs 20 lakh Pravin Tambe (Indian leg-spinner) 20 lakh M Siddharth (Indian spinner) 20 lakh Mumbai Indians Amount Spent: Rs 11.1 crore Buys (6) Nathan Coulter-Nile (Australian fast bowler) Rs 8 crore Chris Lynn (Australian batsman) Rs 2 crore Saurabh Tiwary (Indian Batsman) Rs 50 lakh Digvijay Deshmukh (Indian all-rounder) Rs 20 lakh Prince Balwant Rai Singh (Indian all-Rounder) Rs 20 lakh Mohsin Khan (Indian bowler) rs 20 lakh Rajasthan Royals Amount Spent: Rs 14.15 crore Buys (11) Robin Uthappa (Indian batsman) Rs 3 crore Jaydev Unadkat (Indian seamer) 3 crore Yashasvi Jaiswal (Indian batsman) Rs 2.4 crore Kartik Tyagi (Indian spinner) Rs 1.3 crore Andrew Tye (Australian pacer) Rs 1 crore Tom Curran (England all-rounder) Rs 1 crore David Miller (SA batsman) Rs 75 lakh Anuj Rawat (Indian wk) Rs 80 lakh Oshane Thomas (WI pacer) Rs 50 lakh Aniruddh Joshi (Indian batsman) Rs 20 lakh Akash Singh (Indian bowler) Rs 20 lakh Royal Challengers Bangalore Amount Spent: Rs 21.5 crore Buys (8) Chris Morris (SA all-rounder) Rs 10 crore Aaron Finch (Australia batsman) Rs 4.40 crore Kane Richardson (Australia pacer) Rs 4 crore Dale Steyn (SA pacer) Rs 2 crore Isuru Udana (SL pacer) Rs 50 lakh Shahbaz Ahmed (Indian all-rounder) Rs 20 lakh Joshua Philip (Australia wk) Rs 20 lakh Pavan Deshpande (Indian batsman) Rs 20 lakh Sunrisers Hyderabad Amount Spent: Rs 6.9 crore Buys (7) Mitchell Marsh (Australia all-rounder) Rs 2 crore Priyam Garg (Indian batsman) Rs 1.9 crore Virat Singh (Indian batsman) Rs 1.90 crore Fabien Allen (WI spinner) Rs 50 lakh B Sandeep (Indian batsman) Rs 20 lakh. Sanjay Yadav (Indian all-rounder) rs 20 lakh Abdul Samad (Indian all-rounder) Rs 20 lakh