That's the end of the 2019 IPL auction.
The busiest franchises this evening appeared to be Kings XI Punjab and Delhi Capitals. Rajasthan Royals too did some heavy bidding. CSK hardly had any slots to fill so it was a fairly relaxed evening. The new face who fetched the joint-highest price tonight was Varun Chakravarthy, the spinner from Chennai who can bowl pretty much everything with his right arm. He gave up a career as an architect to give cricket a second shot. Good decision. At 8.4 crores, he and Jaydev Unadkat are the top buys today. Read this profile of Varun Chakravarthy here.
Here are the top buys today:
Jaydev Unadkat (RR) - Rs. 8.4 crore
Varun Chakravarthy (KXIP) - 8.4 crore
Sam Curran (KXIP) - 7.2 crore
Colin Ingram (DC) - 6.4 crore
Carlos Brathwaite (KKR) - 5 crore
Axar Patel (DC) - 5 crore
Mohit Sharma (CSK) - 5 crore
Shivam Dube (RCB) - 5 crore
Thanks for joining us today. With Amol Karhadkar from Jaipur, this is Kanishkaa signing off. Goodnight!
Allrounder Riyan Parag is the final name (!). He's a batsman for Assam. Sold to Rajasthan for 20 lakhs.
Ashton Turner is next. Royals get him for 50 lakhs.
Player No. 1 - Manan Vohra . Royals open bidding at 20 lakhs. Sold to Royals for 20 lakhs.
The auctioneer asks if the teams want to put one more name up. There's a long wait. His feet are killing him, he says. We wait in suspense. We have three names.
Allrounder Shrikant Mundhe . KKR open the bidding and sold to KKR for 20 lakhs.
Aman Khan, allrounder. Unsold.
Bandaru Ayyappa . DC open the bid. Sold to DC for 20 lakhs.
Tanmay Mishra, Kenya batsman. He goes unsold.
Australian Ashton Turner. Base at 50 lakhs. Goes unsold.
Sandeep Warrier. He goes unsold.
Kedar Devdhar from baroda. He goes unsold.
Another chance for Dan Christian. He goes unsold.
Joe Denly comes back. Sold to KKR for 1 crore.
Zeeshan Ansari. He goes unsold.
Shubham Ranjane. Sold to RR for 20 lakhs.
Ruturaj Gaikwad . Sold to CSK for 20 lakhs.
TN legspinner M. Ashwin. Sold to KXIP for 20 lakhs.
Tushar Deshpande. No takers. He goes unsold.
Welcome back.
Jalaj Saxena sold to Delhi for 20 lakhs.
There will be a ten minute break before we begin the second accelerated round.
Amol writes: "Another pair of siblings will be a part of IPL 2019. While Anmolpreet Singh (Rs 80 lakh) will play for Mumbai Indians, his younger brother Prabhsimran Singh (Rs 4.8 Crore) will be in the Kings XI Punjab den #IPLAuction."
Dale Steyn is back in the ring. But nobody budges again. Unsold.
Luke Ronchi is back. He is unsold too.
Lifeline for Jason Holder? Unsold again I'm afraid.
Rishi Dhawan again. Base price at 50 lakhs. Unsold.
Another chance for Saurabh Tiwary? Unsold.
J. Suchith. Unsold.
R. Sai Kishore. Base at 20 lakh. Unsold.
Ishan Porel. Unsold too.
Chama Milind. He goes unsold.
Tushar Deshpande. He goes unsold.
Lot of bidding for Akshdeep Nath . CSK and RCB battle it out. CSK scale it to 2.20 crore. They then take it to 3 crore. RCB say 3.20 crore. CSK - 3.40. Sold to RCB for 3.60 crore.
Armaan Jaffer goes unsold. So does Ayush Badoni.
Second chance for Yuvraj Singh ? 1 crore price. Are KXIP interested? Mumbai do. Sold to Mumbai Indians for 1 crore so a lifeline for Yuvi.
Chris Jordan. Nobody moves. Unsold.
Manoj Tiwary goes unsold yet again.
Martin Guptill. Sold to SRH for 1 crore.
Going back to some players who went unsold.
Mayank Dagar, of Himachal. Unsold.
Karanveer Kaushal. Unsold.
Shrikant Mundhe. Unsold.
Harpreet Brar . Sold to KXIP for 20 lakhs.
Agnivesh Ayachi , from Saurashtra. Sold to KXIP for 20 lakhs.
Akash Parkar. Unsold.
Jamie Overton from England. Unsold.
Prayas Ray Barman , allrounder from Bengal. RCB say 25 lakhs. RCB and KXIP bidding. KXIP say 50 lakhs. RCB - 55 lakhs. KXIP after a pause raise it to 70 lakhs. RCB - 85 lakhs. RCB push it to 1.1 crore. KXIP suddenly raise the paddle and it is 1.2 crore. Sold to RCB for 1.5 crore.
Laurie Evans. Unsold.
Keemo Paul. Sold to Delhi for 50 lakhs .
England allrounder Liam Livingstone. Sold to RR for 50 lakhs.
Prithviraj Yarra, fast bowler. Sold to KKR for 20 lakhs.
Rasikh Dar. Sold to Mumbai for 20 lakhs.
Prabhsimran Singh , wicketkeeper. RCB and Kings XI bid. KXIP take it to 80 lakhs. RCB say 95 lakhs. Bidding edges close to 2 crore. KXIP take it to 2 crore. It's now at 2.4 crore. RCB say 2.6 crore. KXIP scale it to 3.2 crore. Mumbai say 3.8 crore. KXIP now scale this to 4 crore. KXIP say 4.8 cr. Sold to KXIP for 4.8 crore.
Lalit Yadav. Unsold.
Shashank Singh , allrounder. KXIP and Royals bid. Sold to Royals for 30 lakhs.
Sairaj Patil and Swapnil Singh go unsold.
Darshan Nalkande, from Maharashtra. KXIP open at 20 lakhs. RR say 25. Sold to KXIP for 30 lakhs.
Milind Kumar. Sold to RCB for 20 lakhs.
Pankaj Jaswal, allrounder. S old to Mumbai for 20 lakhs.
Harry Gurney from England. KKR open at 75 lakhs. Sold to KKR for 75 lakhs.
Ashton Turner, allrounder from Australia. Unsold.
Sikandar Raza from Zimbabwe. Base - 75 lakhs. Unsold.
Fabien Allen, from West Indies. The allrounder toured India recently. Unsold.
Sandeep Warrier. Unsold.
Jaskaran Singh unsold.
Arshdeep Singh , left arm seamer. Sold to KXIP for 20 lakhs.
Patrick Brown from England. Unsold.
Vishnu Vinod, wicketkeeper. Unsold.
Nikhil Naik, wktkeeper from Maharashtra. Sold to KKR for 20 lakhs.
Lewis Gregory from England. Unsold.
Himmat Singh , batsman from Delhi. RCB and Royals bid for him. RCB at 65 lakhs now. Sold to RCB for 65 lakhs.
Himanshu Rana, batsman from Haryana. Unsold.
Hardus Viljoen from SA. KXIP open at 75 lakh. Sold to KXIP for 75 lakh.
Oshane Thomas from West Indies. RR say 55 lakhs. Oshane toured India recently. RR and KXIP bidding now. RR say 95 lakhs. Sold to Royals for 1.1 crores.
James Pattinson, Australian fast bowler. He's unsold too.
Ali Khan, fast bowler from the USA, Pakistan origin. He goes unsold.
Manpreet Grewal. He goes unsold.
Dan Christian. He can hit it out of the park on his day. Base at 1 crore but he goes unsold though.
Rilee Rousouw from SA. He goes unsold too.
Joe Denly from England. He goes unsold.
Satyajit Bachav, from maharastra. Unsold.
Qais Ahmed from Afghanistan. Unsold.
Anrich Nortje, from South Africa. Sold to KKR for 20 lakhs.
Sherfane Rutherford from West Indies. KKR scale up his bid to 55 lakhs. DC push it to 90 lakhs. KKR - 1.10 crore. This is between KKR and Delhi. DC now scale it to 2 crore. Sold to Delhi for 2 crore.
Shubham Ranjane. He goes unsold.
Pravin Dubey, allrounder. Base - 20 lakhs. Unsold.
We are getting ready for the second half of the auction. Lots of you must be wondering who Varun Chakravarthy is. Here is a piece from our archives.
Dale Steyn . Will he have takers? Base - 1.5 crore. No takers, he goes unsold. Was everybody dreaming about the tea break instead? It will be a 45 minute break.
Lockie Ferguson , allrounder from NZ. KKR start off at 1 crore. KXIP say 1.10. Between KKR and KXIP now. Sold to KKR for 1.6 crore.
Morne Morkel. He retired from SA earlier this year. Unsold.
Abhimanyu Mithun, base - 50 lakhs. Unsold.
Kane Richardson, fast bowler from Australia. Base - 1 crore. Unsold.
Vinay Kumar, base of 50 lakhs. Unsold.
Barinder Sran, base of 50 lakhs. CSK raise it to 60 lakhs. MI take it to 75 lakhs. MI vs CSK battle this. CSK push it to 1,8 crore. Now it has shot up to 2.40. MI have it at 3.40 and CSK have pulled out. Sold to MI for 3.40 crore.
Glenn Phillips, wicketkeeper from New Zealand. Unsold.
Heinrich Klaasen , wicketkeeper from South Africa. RCB open at 50 lakhs. Sold to RCB for 50 lakhs.
Kusal Perera from Sri Lanka. Base 75 lakh. Unsold.
Mushfiqur Rahim, base 50 lakhs. Unsold.
Luke Ronchi from New Zealand. Base - 75 lakhs. Unsold.
Sam Curran , Man of the Series against India. Delhi and Bangalore bid. It's 3 crores at the moment with RCB. RCB - 3.40. DC- 3.60. RCB - 3.80 crore. DC scale it to 4 crore. RCB - 4.60. RCB scale it to 5 crore. KXIP join the party with 5.20. Between RCB and KXIP now by the looks of it. RCB say 6.20. Mike Hesson from Kings XI raises it to 6.40. RCB scale it to 7 crore. Is this going to surpass today's highest of 8.4 crore? Sold to KXIP for 7.20 crore.
Jason Holder, base - 75 lakhs. Nobody seems interested in the WI captain. Unsold.
Parvez Rasool, J&K offspinner. Unsold too.
Corey Anderson, base - 2 crores. Unsold.
Allrounder Rishi Dhawan. Unsold.
Angelo Mathews, base at 2 crore. Mahela is unmoved at the MI table. Unsold.
Jimmy Neesham, NZ allrounder. Base - 75 lakhs. Unsold.
Hashim Amla , unsold as well.
Saurabh Tiwary, base price 50 lakhs. Unsold.
Shaun Marsh , the Kings XI star from season 1. No takers yet? 2 crore base price. Unsold.
Colin Ingram , New Zealand opener. SRH at 2.2 crores. SRH scale it to 3.20. DC and SRH battle it out. DC say 4.4 crore. pause. Will this go up further? Yes, SRH push this to 5 crores. SRH - 5.40 crore. This has gone to 6 crore, DC have him for now. SRH now raise it to 6.20. Sold to DC for 6.4 crore.
Reeza Hendricks, batsman from South Africa. Unsold.
Hazaratullah Zazai, Afghanistan batsman. Starts at 50 lakhs. Unsold.
Usman Khawaja now. Base - 1 crore. No initial bids. Unsold.
Amol: "Varun Chakravathy may not have been able to make much impression in #RanjiTrophy but his reputation of being a mystery spinner has held him in real good state in the IPL auction."
M. Ashwin, TN legspinner. Unsold too. There will be a 10 minute break.
R. Sai Kishore, left-arm spinner from TN. Base - 20 lakh. Unsold.
KC Cariappa, the legspinner from Karnataka. He was formerly with KKR. Unsold this time.
Zahir Khan of Afghanistan, spinner. Unsold.
Yuvraj Chudasama, legspinner from Gujarat. Unsold.
J. Suchith, spinner. Unsold.
Nathu Singh, fast bowler. Sold to Delhi for 20 lakhs.
Tushar Deshpande, fast bowler. Unsold.
Chama Milind, fast bowler from Hyderabad. Unsold.
Rajneesh Gurbani, fast bowler from Vidarbha. Unsold as well.
Ishan Porel, fast bowler. Unsold.
Another set of bowlers. Aniket Choudhry. Base - 20 lakhs. Unsold.
Arun Karthik, wicketkeeper. Unsold.
KS Bharath, wicketkeeper from Andhra. Unsold.
Ankush Bains, wicketkeeper. DC open with 20 lakhs. Sold to Delhi for 20 lakhs.
Anuj Rawat, wicketkeeper. Unsold.
Baba Indrajith, the Tamil Nadu captain. Unsold.
Sheldon Jackson. Unsold
Jalaj Saxena now. Unsold.
Chennai's Varun Chakravarthy. Mumbai say 30 lakh. CSK say 45 lakhs. MI and CSK do battle. They are raising the paddles fast! CSK raise it to 3 crores. Kings XI say 3.60. DC say 3.80. Now with DC at 4.20. KXIP now at 4.8 crore. KKR step in with 5 crore. KXIP 5.20 crore. RR say 5.40 crore. Will KXIP respond? KXIP - 5.60 crore. RR - 5.80 crore. Kings XI - 6 crores. RR_ 6.20 crore. KXIP - 6.40 crore and RR say 6.60 after a while. KXIP - 6.80. RR pull out. A glance at KKR. KKR say 7 crore. KXIP - 7.20 crore. KKR - 7.80 and Kings XI now push it to 8 crore! KKR say 8.20 crore, is he going to surpass Unadkat here? Sold to KXIP for 8.40 crore!
Shivam Dube , allrounder. Delhi say 30 lakhs. RCB steps in. Between DC and RCB. DC scale it to 1 crore. Looks like DC have pulled out. RCB say 1.30 cr. Mumbai in the picture. RCB have it at 2.40 crore. RCB scale it to 3 crore. Mumbai say 3.20. RCB - 3.80 crore. MI - 4.40. MI - 4.80. RCB enter the 5 crore territory now. Mumbai have a chat. Sold to RCB for 5 crore.
Ayush Badoni, allrounder. Unsold.
Sarfaraz Khan , batsman who played for RCB. Base is 20 lakhs. DC say 20 lakhs. Sold to KXIP for 25 lakhs.
Another set. It's Akshdeep Nath, batsman. Unsold.
Armaan Jaffer f rom Mumbai. Unsold.
Anmolpreet Singh , batsman. KXIP - 25 lakhs. MI say 40. It;s between MI and KXIP now. Sold to MI for 80 lakhs.
Ankit Bawne from Maharashtra. Base - 20 lakhs. Unsold.
Sachin Baby of Kerala. He was part of RCB earlier. Unsold.
Manan Vohra, from Punjab. He goes unsold.
Now, uncapped players. Devdutt Padikkal. Sold to RCB for 20 lakhs.
Australia's Fawad Ahmed. Base - 50 lakhs. Unsold. There will be a 15 minute break.
15 players sold, 14 unsold in the first session of #IPLAuction. All the pacers sold, all the spinners unsold.
Pacers are the rage. Spinners, maybe not. Going by India's team selection at Perth at least.
Khary Pierre from West Indies. Base - 50 lakhs. Unsold.
Australian Adam Zampa . Base - 1 crore. Not much movement. He goes unsold too.
Legspinner Rahul Sharma . Base of 50 lakhs. He goes unsold.
Mohit Sharma. Base - 50 lakhs. CSK scale it to Rs. 1.30 crore. DC - 1.60 crore. CSK - 1.70 cr. Mumbai step in at 2 crore. CSK - 2.20 cr. MI - 2.40. CSK - 2.60. CSK scale it to 3 crore. Then they scale it to 3.60 crore. This is between CSK and MI. CSK take it to 5 crore. Sold to CSK for 5 crore so he's reunited with his former franchise.
Varun Aaron is next. RR say 60 lakhs. RR and DC in battle. DC say 95 lakhs. DC say 1.30 crore. DC say 2.20 crore and RR are in discussion. RR scale it to 2.4 crore. Sold to RR for 2.40 crore.
Mohammed Shami. Base price 1 crore. CSK open with that price. Any other takers? Yes, RR respond with 1.10 crore. CSK -1.30 crore. RR - 1.5. KXIP say 1.80 crore. CSK - 2.20 crore. KXIP - 2.80 crore and CSK respond with 3 crore. CSK - 3.40. KCXIP scale it to 4 crores. CSK - 4.20. KXIP - 4.40. CSK - 4.60. KXIP - 4.80. Sold to KXIP for 4.8 crore.
Lasith Malinga , this should be interesting. His former team Mumbai say 2 crore. Sold to Mumbai Indians for 2 crore.
Ishant Sharma. Delhi and Royals in battle. Royals scale it to 1 crore. DC- 1.1 crore. Sold to DC for 1.1 crore. Ishant to play for his home city after all.
The bowlers now. Jaydev Unadkat now. Base - 1.5 crores. Royals say 1.6 crores. Delhi say 1.90 crores and scale it to 2.2 crore. Royals say 2.8 cr. Delhi - 3 crore. Delhi scale it to 3.8 crore. Delhi - 4.20 crore. Royals say 4.4 cr. Delhi - 4.6. Royals 4.80 cr. CSK finally step in with 5. They've been a silent bunch so far as they have only 2 Indian slots. Royals say 5.6 crores. CSK say 6 crores. Pause. Kings XI - 6.20 crore. Royals scale it to 6.80 crore. KXIP - 7 crores! RR - 7.20 crores. RR - 7.60 crore. KXIP - 7.80 crore. It's going past 8 now. RR and KXIP battle it out for now. Sold to Royals for 8.40 crores.
It's Wriddhiman Saha. Starts at 1 crore. SRH open the bidding. Royals say 1.10 cr. Sold to SRH for 1.2 crore. There will be a 5 minute break.
Amol writes: "Not surprised at Yuvraj going unsold in the first round. But will be surprised if he remains unsold at the end of the #IPLAuction"
West Indies' Nicholas Pooran . RCB say 80 lakhs. KXIP say 85 lakhs. KXIP - 95 lakhs. RCB in the bidding war, passes 1.5 crores. RCB- 1.6 crores. RCB - 2 crores. KXIP - 2.60 crores. KXIP - 3.40 crores. RCB - 4 crores. RCB pull out. KXIP - 4.2 crores. Sold to KXIP for 4.20 crores.
England's Jonny Bairstow. At 1.5 crore. Will they show some interest? Kings XI say 1.6 crores. SRH - 1.7 crores. This is between SRH and KXIP now. Sold to SRH for 2.2 crores.
Australia's Ben McDermott. Base - 50 lakhs. He too is unsold.
The third set - wicketkeepers now.
Naman Ojha first up, base 75 lakhs. He goes unsold.
Spinner Axar Patel. The bid has gone to 1.8 crores. Kings XI raise it to 2 crores. Delhi say 2.2 crores. Delhi say 2.60. Delhi - 3 crores. Delhi - 3.80. KXIP - 4 crores. Delhi raise it to 5 crores. Sold to Delhi for 5 crores.
Amol writes: Kings XI Punjab had retained Axar Patel for 6.75 Cr in 2018. The ploy for price correction doesn't work this time around with Delhi Capitals getting him for 5 Cr #IPLAuction
Moises Henriques now. Base - 1 crore. Kings XI open the bid. Sold to KXIP for 1 crore.
Any takers for Yuvraj Singh ? Base - 1 crore. Hardly any movement. And he goes unsold for now!
Gurkeerat Singh next. Base - 50 lakhs. RCB open the bid and he is sold to them for 50 lakhs.
Chris Jordan goes unsold.
West Indies' World T20 hero Carlos Brathwaite is up next. KKR open with 75 lakhs. The bid has increased to 1.6 crore with Kings XI in the race. KKR say 1.9 crore. Kings XI say 2 crore. KKR scale it to 2.6 crore. Kings XI say 3.20 crore. KKR - 3.4 crore. Kings XI - 3.60. Kings XI - 4 crore. KKR discuss. KKR - 4.20. Kings XI - 4.4 crores. KKR say 4.60! Can KKR push this to 5 crore? And 5 they do! Can KXIP match this? KXIP in discussion. KXIP pull out. Sold to KKR for 5 crore .
Second set. The allrounders. Chris Woakes is unsold.
Another Kiwi, Martin Guptill. Base - 1 crore. Still hardly any movement. He is unsold too. First set done.
It's Baz, Brendon McCullum. Here we go. Base - 2 crore. Not much movement. He goes unsold for now.
Bidding hotting up for Shimron Hetmyer. It's 90 lakhs at the moment with Kings XI. They scale it to 1 crore. Royals - 1.3 crores. Kings - 1.4 crores. Kings - 1.6 crores. Kings - 1.8 crores. Royals - 1.9 crores. Kings - 2 crores. Kings - 2.4 crores. No movement from the others but wait, Sunrisers step in, with 2.6 crores. Sunrisers - 3 crores. Kings - 3.20 crores. SRH - 3.8 crores. It's 4 crores with Kings XI. RCB - 4.20. SRH have pulled out. Sold to RCB for 4.2 crores.
Hanuma Vihari at 50 lakhs and Delhi Capitals finally have an opening bid for us today. Royals at 55 lakhs. Delhi and Royals bid. It is up to 90 lakhs now. Mumbai join is at 95 lakhs. Delhi scale it up to 1.2 crores. Vihari's bid is going up. Delhi - 1.6 crores. Mumbai - 1.7 crores. Delhi - 1.8 crores. Delhi - 2 crores. Sold to Delhi for 2 crores.
Amol writes: "Hanuma Vihari's happy days are here to stay. Two Test caps followed by the first bids in #IPLAuction - and an assured entry in the crorepati club."
It's England's Alex Hales , with a starting price of 1.5 crores. Noone is budging yet. He too goes unsold.
Now it's Cheteshwar Pujara . He is in Perth right now. Starts at 50 lakhs. He too goes unsold.
Hugh Edmeades takes the stage, ready to give his gavel "some exercise".
First up is India's Manoj Tiwary. Starts at 50 lakhs. No interest so he remains unsold.
CoA member Diana Edulji kicks things off. BCCI's acting secretary Amitabh Choudary is set to open the auction. He says the BCCI will try its best to keep IPL 2019 within India's shores, given the general elections next summer. In 2009, it had to be shifted entirely to South Africa. In 2014, the UAE hosted the early part before the action shifted to India.
Amitabh Choudhary, the acting BCCI secretary, has started the #IPLAuction with a bang. From starting off with "Most respected Madam Diana Edulji" to correcting her for having referred to Anirudh Chaudhry as "Acting Treasurer" instead of "Honorary Treasurer" to saying IPL has no chairman, the undercurrents in BCCI admonishstration - oops administration - are evident straightaway.
Minutes away from the auction. Here are the first set of players to go under the hammer -
Guptill, Hales, Hetmeyer, McCullum, Pujara, Manoj Tiwary, Vihari, Morgan
Amol Karhadkar in Jaipur. Here's what he says. "Ten minutes to go for the IPL Auction to begin. Would be a surprise if more than 50 players go under the hammer. Dinesh Karthik is the only captain to be present at the auction table, leading the KKR charge."
Meanwhile, we have a new auctioneer on board. Richard Madley was a fixture at IPL auctions for several seasons but he won't be around this time. Let's welcome Hugh Edmeades.
It’s IPL auction time again. Little sooner than expected, considering that we had a general auction in February. With IPL 2019 most likely to be advanced by a few weeks, and the World Cup in England next year, all teams will have a chance to finalise their squads earlier.
Today in Jaipur, 351 players will go under the hammer. But only a maximum of 70 will be sold. The highest base price is set at Rs. 2 crore.
The auction begins at 3.30 p.m. IST.
Below is all you need to know about what lies ahead for each team, money left in the purse and the type of players they can bid for. Reminder that this auction will be completed today, unlike the previous one that was spread over 2 days.
Read the preview to the auction here.
(Inputs from Amol Karhadkar in Jaipur)
Kings XI Punjab
Money to spend: 36.2 crores
Available slots: 15 (Indian 11, Overseas 4)
Delhi Capitals
Money to spend: 25.5 crores
Available slots: 10 (Indian 7, Overseas 3)
Rajasthan Royals
Money to spend: 29.95 crores
Available slots: 9 (Indian 6, Overseas 3)
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Money to spend: 18.15 crores
Available slots: 10 (Indian 8, Overseas 2)
Kolkata Knight Riders
Money to spend: 15.12 crores
Available slots: 12 (Indian 7, Overseas 5)
Mumbai Indians
Money to spend: 11.15 crores
Available slots: 7 (Indian 6, Overseas 1)
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Money to spend: 9.7 crores
Available slots: 5 (Indian 3, Overseas 2)
Chennai Super Kings
Money to spend: 8.4 crores
Available slots: 2 (Indian 2, Overseas 0)
General rules. A maximum of 25 players for each team and minimum of 18, a limit of 8 overseas players per team. Each franchise has been given a purse of Rs 2 crore in addition to what was left after the previous auction.
It is still unsure whether the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) 12th edition will be played in India, South Africa or the UAE. The duration and dates of the 2019 season are also yet to be decided. Whether India’s World Cup-bound stars will be available for the entire T20 extravaganza is uncertain.
Our man Amol Karhadkar is in Jaipur tracking the events.
