Kolkata Knight Riders splurged a record-breaking ₹25.20 crore to land top Australian all-rounder Cameron Green and ₹18 crore to acquire the services of Sri Lankan pacer Matheesha Pathirana in the Indian Premier League players' auction here on Tuesday.
South African batter David Miller was acquired by Delhi Capitals at his base price of ₹2 crore. Indian all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer generated strong interest and was eventually picked up by Royal Challengers Bengaluru for ₹7 crore, while Sri Lanka’s Wanindu Hasaranga joined Lucknow Super Giants for ₹2 crore. Among Indian uncapped players, Kartik Sharma (wicketkeeper) and Prashant Veer (all-rounder) emerged as the biggest earners. Both were bought by Chennai Super Kings for a combined ₹14.20 crore, having entered the auction at a base price of ₹30 lakh each.
Green surpassed compatriot Mitchell Starc (₹24.75 crore) to become the most expensive overseas player at an IPL auction. This followed an intense bidding war between Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings, with the former eventually emerging as the winner. KKR also went after Venkatesh Iyer before pulling out of the race against Royal Challengers Bengaluru, who secured the India all-rounder for ₹7 crore.
Here is how each team's squad looks after the auctions in the Middle East:
Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Jacob Bethell, Josh Hazlewood, Nuwan Thushara, Phil Salt, Romario Shepherd, Tim David, Venkatesh Iyer, Jordan Cox, Abhinandan Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Devdutt Padikkal, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Rajat Patidar, Rasikh Dar, Suyash Sharma, Swapnil Singh, Virat Kohli, Yash Dayal, Mangesh Yadav, Kanishk Chouhan, Vihaan Malhotra, Vicky Ostwal, Satvik Deswal.
Chennai Super Kings
Jamie Overton, Nathan Ellis, Noor Ahmad, Dewald Brevis, Matt Henry, Akeal Hosein, Matthew Short, Zak Foulkes, MS Dhoni, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjapneet Singh, Mukesh Choudhary, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Sanju Samson, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shivam Dube, Shreyas Gopal, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Ayush Mhatre, Urvil Patel, Kartik Sharma, Prashant Veer, Rahul Chahar, Sarfaraz Khan, Aman Khan.
Mumbai Indians
Allah Ghazanfar, Corbin Bosch, Mitchell Santner, Ryan Rickelton, Sherfane Rutherford, Trent Boult, Will Jacks, Quinton de Kock, Ashwani Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Mayank Markande, Naman Dhir, Raghu Sharma, Raj Angad Bawa, Robin Minz, Rohit Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Mayank Rawat, Atharva Ankolekar, Mohammad Izhar, Danish Malewar.
Delhi Capitals
Dushmantha Chameera, Mitchell Starc, Tristan Stubbs, Pathum Nissanka, Kyle Jamieson, Lungi Ngidi, Ben Duckett, David Miller, Abhishek Porel, Ajay Mandal, Ashutosh Sharma, Axar Patel, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Kuldeep Yadav, Madhav Tiwari, Mukesh Kumar, Nitish Rana, Sameer Rizvi, T. Natarajan, Tripurana Vijay, Vipraj Nigam, Auqib Dar, Prithvi Shaw, Sahil Parakh.
Gujarat Titans
Glenn Phillips, Jos Buttler, Kagiso Rabada, Rashid Khan, Jason Holder, Tom Banton, Luke Wood, Anuj Rawat, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Ishant Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Kumar Kushagra, Manav Suthar, Mohammad Siraj, Mohd. Arshad Khan, Nishant Sindhu, Prasidh Krishna, R. Sai Kishore, Rahul Tewatia, Sai Sudharsan, Shahrukh Khan, Shubman Gill, Washington Sundar, Ashok Sharma, Prithviraj Yarra.
Rajasthan Royals
Donovan Ferreira, Jofra Archer, Kwena Maphaka, Lhuan-Dre Pretorius, Nandre Burger, Sam Curran, Shimron Hetmyer, Adam Milne, Dhruv Jurel, Ravindra Jadeja, Riyan Parag, Sandeep Sharma, Shubham Dubey, Tushar Deshpande, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Yashaswi Jaiswal, Yudhvir Charak, Ravi Bishnoi, Ravi Singh, Sushant Mishra, Kuldeep Sen, Brijesh Sharma, Aman Rao Perala, Vignesh Puthur, Yash Raj Punja.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Cameron Green, Matheesha Pathirana, Mustafizur Rahman, Rachin Ravindra, Finn Allen, Tim Seifert, Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Tejasvi Singh, Akash Deep, Rahul Tripathi, Daksh Kamra, Sarthak Ranjan, Prashant Solanki, Kartik Tyagi.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Brydon Carse, Eshan Malinga, Heinrich Klaasen, Kamindu Mendis, Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Liam Livingstone, Jack Edwards, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, Harsh Dubey, Harshal Patel, Ishan Kishan, Jaydev Unadkat, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Smaran Ravichandaran, Zeeshan Ansari, Salil Arora, Shivam Mavi, Krains Fuletra, Praful Hinge, Amit Kumar, Onkar Tarmale, Sakib Hussain, Shivang Kumar.
Lucknow Super Giants
Aiden Markram, Matthew Breetzke, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Josh Inglis, Anrich Nortje, Wanindu Hasaranga, Abdul Samad, Akash Singh, Arjun Tendulkar, Arshin Kulkarni, Avesh Khan, Ayush Badoni, Digvesh Rathi, Himmat Singh, Manimaran Siddharth, Mayank Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mohsin Khan, Prince Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mukul Choudhary, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Naman Tiwari.
Punjab Kings
Azmatullah Omarzai, Lockie Ferguson, Marco Jansen, Marcus Stoinis, Mitch Owen, Xavier Bartlett, Ben Dwarshuis, Cooper Connolly, Arshdeep Singh, Harnoor Pannu, Harpreet Brar, Musheer Khan, Nehal Wadhera, Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Pyla Avinash, Shashank Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Suryansh Shedge, Vishnu Vinod, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vishal Nishad, Pravin Dubey.