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IPL 2020 AUCTIONS | IPL Players List

Welcome to the live blog of the IPL 2020 auctions. A total of 332 shortlisted players are up for auction with the franchises looking to fill up 73 spots in the league. 29 players from this list are overseas players who are expected fire up the auctions. All the franchises have been tight-lipped about the kind of talent they are looking for in the IPL 2020 auctions and the league is getting exciting by the year. Sportswhoop brings you live action from Kolkata.

The auctions so far has been really engaging with many of the Australian players being bought for big money. Pat Cummins, Chris Lynn, Nathan Coulter Nile have all picked for big money while very surprisingly, Marcus Stoinis has not found a buyer yet.

Shimron Hetmyer has been bought for a massive 7.75 crores and will play for Delhi in the upcoming season. His Windies teammates Carlos Braithwaite and Evin Lewis have failed to find buyers so far.

Among the Indian players, Piyush Chawla fetched 6.75 crores and has been the highest bid on an Indian player so far.

While players like Chris Morris, Chris Woakes, David Willey, Eoin Morgan, Jason Roy, Kane Richardson, Kyle Abbott, and Shaun Marsh have confirmed their attendance for the IPL 2020 season, with each opting for a base price of INR 1.5 crore.

Now let’s have a look at the IPL players list, all the franchises, their remaining purse, how they fair and their current team before the auctions. 



IPL 2020 AUCTIONS | IPL Players List

1. CSK - Chennai (CSK)

The MS Dhoni led-team has a wallet remaining of Rs 14.60 Crores and needs very few players to complete the IPL squad. The team needs five players ( 3 Domestic, 2 International) to complete the squad. This is how their current squad looks like.

MS Dhoni

Suresh Raina

Ambati Rayudu

Kedar Jadhav

Harbhajan Singh

Murali Vijay

Ravindra Jadeja 

Shardul Thakur

Ruturaj Gaikwad

Lungi Ngidi

Mitchell Santner

Imran Tahir

Shane Watson

Faf Du Plessis

Dwayne Bravo

N Jagadeeshan

Karn Sharma 

Monu Singh

Asif KM



IPL 2020 AUCTIONS | IPL Players List

2. MI - Mumbai 

Four-time champions MI - Mumbai need seven players ( 5 Domestic, 2 International) and have a remaining purse of Rs 13.05 Crore. This is how their current squad looks like at the moment.

Rohit Sharma

Anukul Roy

Jasprit Bumrah

Dhawal Kulkarni

Hardik Pandya 

Anmolpreet Singh

Lasith Malinga

Krunal Pandya

Rahul Chahar 

Kieron Pollard

Quinton De Kock

Suryakumar Yadav 

Jayant Yadav

Aditya Tare

Trent Boult

M McClenaghan

S Rutherford


IPL 2020 AUCTIONS | IPL Players List

3. KKR - Kolkata

Two-time IPL champions KKR - Kolkata are coming into this auction with a remaining purse of  Rs 35.65 Crores and aiming to fill up 11 spots ( 7 Domestic, 4 International).

Dinesh Karthik

Andre Russel 

Sunil Narine

Kuldeep Yadav

Shubman Gill

Lockie Ferguson

Nitish Rana 

Sandeep Warrier

Harry Gurney

K. Nagarkoti

Shivam Mavi

Siddhesh Lad 

Prasidh Krishna  


IPL 2020 AUCTIONS | IPL Players List

4. RR - Rajasthan

RR - Rajasthan traded Ajinkya Rahane during the initial transfer window, now have a Rs 28.90 Crore remaining in their purse within which they need to fill up 11 slots (7 Domestic, 4 International).

Steve Smith 

Varun Aaron

Ben stokes

Jofra Archer

Jos Butler

Sanju Samson

Shreyas Gopal

Manan Vohra

Riyan Parag

Mahipal Lomror

Mayank Markande

Rahul Tewatia

Ankit Rajpoot

Shashank Sing


IPL 2020 AUCTIONS | IPL Players List

5. RCB - Bangalore 

RCB - Bangalore led by Indian skipper Virat Kohli have a lot of work to do in the auction given the fact they are yet to win a title. They have 12 slots to fill ( 6 Domestic, 6 International ) within a remaining purse of Rs 27.90 Crores.
Virat Kohli 
AB de Villers
Moeen Ali
Pawan Negi
Devdutt Padikkal
Parthiv Patel
Shivam Dube
W Sundar
Gurkeerat Mann
Umesh Yadav
MOHD. Siraj
Yuzi Chahal 
Navdeep Saini

IPL 2020 AUCTIONS | IPL Players List

6. KXIP - Punjab

KXIP - Punjab have the meatiest purse-remaining among all the franchisescoming into the auction. With Rs 42.70 Crores remaining in the wallet, the franchise needs to fill in another 9 slots ( (5 Domestic, 4 International) to complete their squad.

KL Rahul

MOHD. Shami

Mujeeb UR Rahman

Chris Gayle 

Mayank Agarwal 

Karun Nair

Sarfaraz Khan 

Nicholas Pooran

Mandeep Singh

K Gowtham

Arshdeep singh

Hardus Vijoen

M. Ashwin

J Suchith

Harpreet Brar

Darshan Nalkande


IPL 2020 AUCTIONS | IPL Players List

7. DC - Delhi 

DC - Delhi surprised everyone with their improved performance in the last season. This year, they come into the auctions looking to fill 11 slots ( (6 Domestic, 5 International). The franchise still have a remaining purse of Rs 27.85 crore

Shreyas Iyer 

Shikhar Dhawan 

Rishab Pant

Amit Mishra

Prithvi Shaw

Ishant Sharma

Avesh Khan 

Kagiso Rabada 

Axar Patel

Ajinkya Rahane

S Lamichhane

Keemo Paul 

Harshal Patel

R Ashwin


IPL 2020 AUCTIONS | IPL Players List

8. SRH - Hyderabad

The 2016 IPL Champions who have somehow managed to retain the core team have seven spots to fill within a remaining purse of  Rs 17 Crores.

David Warner

Wriddhiman Saha

Siddarth Kaul

Kane Williamson

Jonny Bairstow

Rashid Khan

Mohammad Nabi

Billy Stanlake

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Manish Pandey

Khaleel Ahmed

Shahbaz Nadeem 

Vijay Shankar

Shreevats Goswami

T Natarajan 

Abhishek Sharma

Sandeep sharma

Basil Thampi

This is how all the teams fair before going into the auction. In the next blog, we will cover the new buys of every  Franchise and how much they spent on each buy. 

To be continued...