Australia cricket team pace spearhead Pat Cummins became the most expensive foreign player in the history of Indian Premier League (IPL) as Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) bagged him for a whopping Rs 15.5 crore in IPL 2020 auction held in Kolkata on Thursday.
Cummins' bidding price went past England all-rounder Ben Stokes' previous record auction bid of Rs 14.5 crore, made at the IPL 2017 auctions.
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The Australian pacer also became the second-most-expensive player in the history of IPL auctions, next only to Indian all-rounder Yuvraj Singh, who had been signed by the Delhi franchise (then Delhi Daredevils, now Delhi Capitals) for Rs 16 crore in the 2015 season.
Initially, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals were locked in a bidding war for Cummins, who had a base price of Rs 2 crore. The bid swiftly soared past Rs 5 crore, with RCB briefly in the lead at Rs 5.25 crore. Cummins eventually returned to KKR for a jaw-dropping Rs 15.5 crore.
Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell, who had a base price of Rs 2 crore, was bought by Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) after a fierce bidding war with Delhi capitals for Rs 10.75 crore. Chris Morris, the third-most-expensive, was grabbed for Rs 10 crore by Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB).
England all-rounder Sam Curran, who played for Kings XI last season, went to Chennai Super Kings (CSK) for Rs 5.50 crore. Yusuf Pathan, Stuart Binny, Martin Guptill, Carlos Brathwaite and Colin Munro were among the prominent names that went unsold. England's World Cup-winning captain Eoin Morgan and Australia's limited-overs skipper Aaron Finch were snapped by KKR and RCB, respectively, for Rs 5.25 crore and Rs 4.40 crore.
Here is the full list of players sold in IPL players' auction for the 2020 edition:
Dale Steyn: Bought by RCB at his base price of Rs 2 cr
Andrew Tye: Bought by RR at his base price of Rs 1 cr
Isuru Udana: Bought by RCB at his base price of Rs 50 lakh
Tom Curran: Bought by RR at his base price of Rs 1 cr
Nikhil Nayak: Bought by KKR at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Shahbaz Ahmad: Bought by RCB at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Lalit Yadav: Bought by DC at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Mohsin Khan: Bought by MI at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Mohit Sharma: Bought by DC at his base price of Rs 50 lakh
Pavan Deshpande: Bought by RCB at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Prabhsimran Singh: Bought by KXIP for RS 55 lakh
Tushar Deshpande: Bought by DC at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
R Sai Kishore: Bought by CSK at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Marcus Stoinis: Bought by DC for Rs 4.80 cr
Chris Green: Bought by KKR Rs 20 lakh
Joshua Philippe: Bought by RCB at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Tom Banton: Bought by KKR at his base price of Rs 1 cr
Fabian Allen: Bought by SRH at his base price of Rs 50 lakh
Chris Jordan: Bought by KXIP for Rs 3 cr
Kane Richardson: Bought by RCB for Rs 4 cr
Oshane Thomas: Bought by RR at his base price of Rs 50 lakh
Pravin Tambe: Bought by KKR at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Tajinder Dhillon: Bought by KXIP at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Abdul Samad: Bought by SRH at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Anirudha Joshi: Bought by RR at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Digvijay Deshmukh: Bought by MI at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Prince Balwant Rai Singh: Bought by MI at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Sanjay Yadav: Bought by SRH at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Sandeep Bhavanaka: Bought by SRH at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Shimron Hetmyer: Bought by DC for Rs 7.75 cr
David Miller: Bought by RR at the base price of Rs 75 lakh
Saurabh Tiwary: Bought by MI at the base price of Rs 50 lakh
Mitchell Marsh: Bought by SRH at the base price of Rs 2 crore
James Neesham: Bought by KXIP at the base price of Rs 50 lakh
Josh Hazlewood: Bought by CSK at the base price of Rs 2 crore
Rahul Tripathi (uncapped): Bought by KKR for Rs 60 lakh
Virat Singh (uncapped): Bought by SRH for Rs 1.9 cr
Priyam Garg (uncapped): Bought by SRH for Rs 1.9 cr
Deepak Hooda (uncapped): Bought by KXIP for Rs 50 lakh
Varun Chakravarthy (uncapped): Bought by KKR for Rs 4 cr
Yashasvi Jaiswal (uncapped): Bought by RR for Rs 2.4 cr
Anuj Rawat (uncapped): Bought by RR for Rs 80 lakh
Akash Singh (uncapped): Bought by RR at the base price of Rs 20 lakh
Kartik Tyagi (uncapped): Bought by RR for Rs 1.3 cr
Ishan Porel (uncapped): Bought by KXIP at the base price of Rs 20 lakh
M Siddharth (uncapped): Bought by KKR at the base price of Rs 20 lakh
Ravi Bishnoi (uncapped): Bought by KXIP for Rs 2 cr
Pat Cummins: Most expensive so far: Bought by KKR for Rs 15.5 cr
Glenn Maxwell: Bought by KXIP for Rs 10.75 cr
Aaron Finch: Bought by RCB for Rs 4.4 cr
Jason Roy: Bought by DC at base price of Rs 1.5 cr
Eoin Morgan: Bought by KKR for Rs 5.25 cr
Chris Lynn: Bought by MI at base price of Rs 2 cr
Sam Curran: Bought by CSK for Rs 5.5 cr
Chris Morris: Bought by RCB for Rs 10 cr
Robin Uthappa: Bought by RR for Rs 3 cr
Chris Woakes: Bought by DC at base price of Rs 1.5 cr
Alex Carey: Bought by DC for Rs 2.4 cr
Jaydev Unadkat: Bought by RR for Rs 3 cr
Nathan Coulter-Nile: Bought by MI for Rs 8 cr
Sheldon Cottrell: Bought by KXIP for Rs 8.5 cr
Piyush Chawla: Bought by CSK for Rs 6.75 cr
This is how the remaining individual purse of the eight teams looks after the auction: | Teams | Remaining purse | Overseas players | Total players |
| KXIP | Rs 16.50 cr | 8 | 25 |
| RR | Rs 14.75 cr | 8 | 25 |
| DC | Rs 9 cr | 8 | 22 |
| SRH | Rs 10.10 cr | 8 | 25 |
| KKR | Rs 8.50 cr | 8 | 23 |
| RCB | Rs 6.40 cr | 8 | 21 |
| MI | Rs 1.95 cr | 8 | 24 |
| CSK | Rs 0.15 cr | 8 | 24 |
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