IPL Auction 2021 Highlights: Morris shatters record, Maxwell gets big bid as franchises open purses

The auction for the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League with few expected picks while some players were surprisingly offered greater prices than they otherwise would have got.

Chris Morris went on to become the most expensive player in the history of the tournament when the Rajasthan Royals picked him for a whopping Rs 16.25 crore. He beat Yuvraj Singh who was bought for Rs 16 crore in the IPL 2015. 

He was closely followed by the emerging New Zealander Kyle Jamieson who was offered an aggressive amount of Rs 15 crore.

Glenn Maxwell’s poor run of form in the previous editions of the IPL could not harm his fortunes this year as well and the RCB went all-out for him at Rs 14.25 crore.

Overseas pacers were in demand and the Australian Jhye Richardson reaped the advantage by pocketing a stellar deal of Rs 14 crore from the Punjab Kings.

Among Indian players, all-rounder Krishnappa Gowtham was the most-expensive buy and the CSK offered him a big price of Rs 9.25 crore. 

The young sensation Shahrukh Khan from Tamil Nadu was bought for Rs 5.25 crore by the Punjab Kings.

The franchises had a set target of the upcoming edition by the looks of their buying and bidding pattern. 

The window for trading players from one franchise to another will open tomorrow and it will offer yet another opportunity to franchises to fine-tune the balance of their attacks.

Here's how the whole auction process went on

Arjun Tendulkar

And Mumbai have jumped on it. Obviously!

Nobody else is interested at all and this will be his first-ever IPL as a senior cricketer.

Akash Singh

Goes to Royals for 20 lakhs

Pawan Negi
Goes to KKR for 50 lakhs

Venkatesh Iyer

Sold to KKR for 20 lakhs

Hanuma Vihari

1 crore is the base price and he is unsold once again. No takers for middle order batsmen today.

Gurkeerat Mann

Goes unsold again.

Pawan Negi

Negi goes unsold again.

Ben Cutting

KKR calls the bid for Rs 75 lakh and seal the deal for the Australian all-rounder.

Rassie van der Dussen

Goes unsold once again.

Corey Anderson

Bidding begins at Rs 75 lakh and goes unsold for the second time today.

Venkatesh Iyer

Goes unsold at Rs 20 lakh.

Vishnu Solanki

Bidding begins at Rs 20 lakh and he goes unsold yet again.

Harbhajan Singh

Bidding begins at Rs 2 crore and goes to KKR.

Mujeeb Ur Rahman

Bidding starts at Rs 1.5 crore and goes to SRH.

Sam Billings

Bidding starts at Rs 2 crore and goes to Delhi Capitals.

Kedar Jadhav

Bidding begins at Rs 2 crore and goes to SRH.

Karun Nair

Biding starts at Rs 50 lakh and sold to KKR at the base price.

Saurabh Kumar

Goes to Punjab at Rs 20 lakh.

Pratysuh Singh

Goes unsold at Rs 20 lakh.

Marco Jensen

Mumbai seal the deal at Rs 20 lakh.

Tim David

Goes unsold

Gerald Coetzee

Unsold at Rs 20 crore.

Harsh Tyagi

Goes unsold.

Jack Wildermuth

Base price is at Rs 50 lakh and goes unsold.

K Bhagath Varma

Bidding begins at Rs 20 lakh and CSK seal the deal at the base price.

Ajay Dev Goud

Unsold at Rs 20 lakh.

Yudhvir Charak

Mumbai seal the deal at Rs 20 lakh.

Chaitanya Bishnoi

Goes unsold at Rs 20 lakh.

George Linde

Base price is Rs 50 lakh and goes unsold.

Isuru Udana

Bidding starts at Rs 50 lakh and goes unsold.

Chris Green

Off-spinner goes unsold.

Reece Topley

Goes unsold

Wayne Parnell

Goes unsold at Rs 50 lakh.

Jimmy Neesham

Bidding begins at Rs 50 lakh and Mumbai seal the deal at the base price.

Scott Kuggeleijn

The kiwi goes unsold at Rs 50 lakh.

Kuldip Yadav

Bidding begins at Rs 20 lakh and goes to RR.

Simarjeet Singh

Goes unsold at the base price of Rs 20 lakh.

M Harishankar Reddy

Goes to CSK at the base price of Rs 20 lakh.

Josh Inglis

Inglis goes unsold at Rs 20 lakh.

KS Bharat

Bidding starts at Rs 20 lakh and RCB take the batsman for the base price.

Suyash Prabhudessai

Bidding begins at Rs 20 lakh and RCB pocket him at the base price.

Prerak Mankad

Goes unsold at Rs 20 lakh.

Tajinder Dhillon

Goes unsold at Rs 50 lakh.

Siddesh Lad

Goes unsold

Sean Abbott

Goes unsold at the base price of Rs 50 lakh.

Matthew Wade

Wade goes unsold.

Ben McDermott

Goes unsold at base price of Rs 50 lakh.

Thisara Perera

Goes unsold at the base price of Rs 50 lakh.

Liam Livingstone

Bidding starts at Rs 75 lakh and Rajasthan pocket the opener for the base price

Daniel Christian

RCB and KKR battled it out for the experienced all-rounder.

Bidding is currently at Rs 2 crore.

Christian goes past Rs 3 crore, and RCB and KKR carry on the fight.

RCB and KKR take the battle past Rs 4.5 crore.

RCB seal the deal and exhausted their purse by buying Christian for Rs 4.8 crore.

Fabien Allen

Punjab take Allen for Rs 75 lakh.

G Periyasamy

Goes unsold

Ben Dwarshuis

Dwarshuis goes unsold

Vaibhav Arora

Arora goes to KKR at the base price of Rs 20 lakh.

KL Shrijith

Shrijith goes unsold.

Utkarsh Singh

Singh goes to Punjab at Rs 20 lakh

Karan Sharma

Sharma goes unsold at the base price of Rs 20 lakh

Jalaj Saxena

Saxena goes to Punjab at the base price of Rs 30 lakh.

Naveen-Ul-Haq 

The Afghan all-rounder is unsold at 50 Lakhs. He might be called back later on in the auction. 

Jason Beherendorff 

The Western Australian big left arm is unsold at 100 Lakhs

Mitchell McClenaghan

At 50 Lakhs he goes unsold. 

Billy Stanlake 

The Australian big fast bowler goes unsold at 100 Lakhs

Mohit Sharma 

And he goes unsold at 50 Lakhs

Oshane Thomas

At 50 Lakhs, the West Indian goes unsold. 

Varun Aaron

The Jharkhand bowler is placed at 50 Lakhs and he is unsold. 

Moises Henriques

Henriques is base-priced at 100 Lakhs and Punjab have bidded for him. RCB and Punjab are exchanging balances for him. He is at 2.25 crores right now and with Punjab. The two teams are going neck to neck for the New South Wales all-rounder. At 380 Lakhs he is now with Punjab Kings and RCB has chosen to go out of the auction. Seems like Punjab Kings would have it. But RCB are back in the race. Henriques are at 4 crores and Punjab is back at 420 Lakhs. And that is is the last bid. Sold. 

Marnus Labushchagne

The Australian is going to go unsold at 100 lakhs. A shocking decision from the franchises. 

Gurkeerat Singh

The Punjab man is unsold at 50 Lakhs

Tom Curran

The new man in the auction is 

The bidding is going on for Curran and Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad are going for him. 

From the base price of 1.5 crores, he has now moved to 4.2 crores.

Back to SRH at 5 crores. He is so far the second highest-earning Englishman after Moeen Ali. He is sold at 5.25 crores to DC

Ben Cutting 

He is unsold at 75 lakhs

Kyle Jamieson

Base price at 75 he is no at 160 and is quickly rising to 220 and the two bidders in action are Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore. He has now touched 6 crores. 

With RCB at 6.25

He is going to big as predicted. At 750 Lakhs, the RCB has him right now. Punjab enters the bidding now. 

Jamieson has quickly moved to 900 Lakhs now. 950 Lakhs and he is soon gonna touch 10 crores, or will he? 

Punjab are going for him. He is now bidded at 1125 lakhs. Punjab were always going to go for him. Now the Kiwi is at 12 crores. He is going to be the most expensive Kiwi ever, beating fellow all-rounder Corey Anderson. At 1300 Lakhs, he is now moving into the territory dominated by the Australians so far. At 15 crores. Will he now become the biggest earner this season. And he is sold for 15 crores to Royal Challengers Bangalore

Pawan Negi

Pawan Negi has gone unsold at a base price 50 Lakhs

Martin Guptill 

Another Kiwi in the fray at a base price of 50 Lakhs and he goes unsold

Cheteshwar Pujara 

The Test stalwart has been bidded by CSK the eternal oldie lover and he is sold for the opening bid. 

Rassie Van der Dussen 

South African is unsold at 50 Lakhs

Darren Bravo 

Base priced at 75 lakhs, the West Indian is unsold as well

Devon Conway

Goes unsold at 50 Lakhs

Corey Anderson

The New Zealander at 75 lakh and he is unsold too

Shaun Marsh

The base price is 150 lakhs and he is unsold as well

We are back after the break and the first player is 

Rovman Powell

The opening bid at 50 Lakhs and he is unsold

Another 10 minutes break before we move onto the next set of players. 

Tejas Badoka 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, any interest at 20 ?? remains unsold. 

Midhun Sudheshan 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, is there any bidders? No I don't guess so, and he remains unsold. 

Sandeep Lamichhane 

Base price of Rs 40 lakhs, no interest so far, Oh no he remains unsold. 

KC Cariappa 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, Royals start off with the opening bid, no other interest being shown so far and sold at his base price. 

Jagadeesha Suchit 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, SRH bids for him at base price, is there any other interest shown by other franchises,. 30 L with SRH, sold to Hyderabad. 

Karanveer Singh 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, no opening bid so far, he remains unsold. 

M Siddharth 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs and opening bid started by Delhi Capitals, no interest shown by other franchises and sold to DC at his base price.

Tushar Deshpande

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs and he remains unsold. 

Riley Meredith 

Base price of 40 lakhs,  current bid with DC at base price, Punjab comes in and going strong, current bid 75 lakhs with Punjab, 90 to DC, Punjab bids 95 lakhs 1 crores with DC, 1.2 crores back with DC, going on strong, 1.5 crores back with Punjab, DC waits a bit and gives another bid at 1.6 crores, Punjab back in at 1.7 and Punjab now storms back at 1.80, back with DC at 2 crores, back with Punjab at 2.2 crores, DC at 2.4 crores, 2.60 back with punjab, 2.8 DC, back with Punjab at 3 crores, 3.40 with Punjab, 3.80 crores with Punjab, DC at 4 crores, back with Punjab at 4.2 crores, 4.8 crores to DC, 5.5 crores back with Punjab, 5.75 back with DC, current bid gone to 6.75 crores, 7.75 crores back with DC, Punjab in a conference, 8 crores back with Punjab, sold to Punjab at 8 crores. 

Kuldeep Sen 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, no interest shown by any franchises and he remains unsold.

Chetan Sakariya

Base price of 20 lakhs, RR bids for him at his base price and RCB in the foray now. Back with Royals at 60 lakhs, back with RCB at 65 lakhs, going on strong, RR owners asks for a bit of time, current bid of 80 lakhs with RCB, 90 back with Royals, 95 back with RCB, 100 lakhs 110 back with RCB, Rajasthan still going  at120 Lakhs, sold to Rajathan Royals at 1.20 crores

Lukman Meriwala 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, no opening bid so far, DC comes in with the opening bid, sold to DC at his base price. 

Ankit Rajpoot 

Base price of Rs 30 lakhs, no interest by any franchises and he remains unsold. 

Mujtaba Yousuf 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, no bids so far, remains unsold. 

Avi Barot 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, no interest shown and he remains unsold. 

Mohammed Azharuddeen 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, RCB opens the bidding at his base price, no interest shown by other franchises and RCB acquires him for his base price. 

Kedar Devdhar

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, no bids so far, remains unsold. 

Sheldon Jackson 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, no interest being shown so far, current bid with KKR at base price and they acquires him. 

Vishnu Vinod 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, current bid with DC, sold to Capitals. 

Vivek Singh 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs and he goes unsold. 

Krishnappa Gowtham 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, Opening bid started by KKR, SRH enter the bid with 25 lakhs, gone onto 50 with KKR, going on intensely, gone to 1.40 KKR, KKR back with him at 1.6 crores, bidding war becoming more and more intense, gone onto 3 crores, 3 crores 60 with KKR, 3.80 with SRH, back with SRH at 4.6 crores, 5 crores with SRH, 6.50 with SRH, KKR thinktank in a meeting and goes for another bid at 6.75 crores, back with SRH at 7 crores, KKR bids 7.25 crores, SRH back with 7.50, KKR with 7.75 crores, SRH goes on with at Rs 8 crores, 8.50 crores to SRH, 8.75 with CSK, they come into the foray right now and could well go onto bag him, oh no he has gone onto 9 crores with SRH, back with CSK at 9.25 crores, sold to CSK at a whopping sum.

Ayush Badoni 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, goes unsold after no interest being shown, remains unsold. 

Shahrukh Khan 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, current bid with DC, 35 lakhs with RCB, 45 bid back with RCB, 55 with Delhi Capitals, RCB with 60 lakhs, gone onto 80 with RCB, 110 back with RCB, 160 with DC, 180 back with RCB, 200 with DC, 220 L with RCB, 240 back with DC, Punjab enter the race with the a bid of 280 L, RCB backs off, no going on, an intense battle, 380L with RCB, 4 crores back with Punjab Kings, 440 L with Punjab, 460 L back with RCB, 480L back with Punjab, 5.25 crores with Punjab and sold to Punjab Kings. 

Ripal Patel 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, the auctioneer asks for the base price but he remains unsold. 

Atit Sheth

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, no interest and he goes unsold. 

Vishnu Solanki 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, no interest being shown so far and he remains unsold, a bit surprising to be honest. 

Himmat Singh 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, no interest so far and he remains unsold. 

Rajat Patidar

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, RCB takes him for his base price. 

Rahul Gahlaut 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, no interest shown and he goes unsold. 

Sachin Baby

Base price of Ra 20 lakhs, RCB bids for him at his base price and sold to Bangalore.

C Hari Nishant

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, goes unsold. 

Himanshu Rana 

Base price of Rs 20 lakhs, no interest being shown and the youngster remains unsold. 

A quick five-minute break and we will go to the next round. 

Qais Ahmed

Base price of Rs 50 lakhs, no interest shown and remains unsold. 

Piyush Chawla 

Base price of Rs 50 lakhs and Mumbai Indians start the opening bid, Delhi comes in for 55 lakhs, gone to 90 MI, 95 DC, MI 1 crores, back to Mumbai at 1 crores 20, DC 140, 160 L with DC, Mumbai goes for 2 crores, 240 L back with Mumbai and he is sold to the defending champions. 

Ish Sodhi 

Base price of Rs 50 lakhs, the auctioneer asks for base price but no movement what so ever, remains unsold. 

Harbhajan Singh 

Base price of Rs 2 crores, no one showing interest till now. It looks hard and he remains unsold. 

Mujeeb-ur Rahman 

Base price of Rs 1.5 crores, not much movement in the bidding, no one showing interest and he remains unsold. 

Rahul Sharma 

Base price of Rs 50 lakhs, no interest being shown and he also remains unsold. 

Adil Rashid

Base price Rs 1 crores, 50 lakhs. no interest being shown by any franchises, goes unsold. 

Umesh Yadav 

Base price of Rs 1 crore, no interest, Oh DC has come in the bid at the base price, gets sold to Delhi Capitals at his base price. 

Sheldon Cottrell 

Cottrell base price at Rs 1 crores, goes unsold

Nathan Coulter Nile

The bids for former Mumbai Indians medium-pacer starts from 1.5 crores. 

Delhi and Mumbai fighting it out at 3.6 crores.

And Mumbai Indians have brought him back at 5 crores.

Jhye Richardson

Aggressive bidding for the Australian pacer races him to 2.2 crores from his base price of 1.5.

Bangalore, Rajasthan and Delhi attacking the bids and the bid has crossed 4.4 crores.

Richardson was the highest wicket-taker in the recently concluded Big Bash season and as I write this the bid has soared to 7 crores from the RCB.

Punjab in the fray now, bids have gone to 8.5 crores and RCB are still pushing for a big fast bowler. 9 crores, the bid is at 9 crores. 

Richardson breaches the 10 crore barrier, RCB and Punjab are pushing the limits for the 24-year-old pacer. Bidding at 11.25 crores now.

Can Richardson break the Pat Cummins barrier? 15.5 crores for the Australian fast bowler last season and right now he stands at 13.5 crores with the Punjab Kings.

Sold! Jhye Richardson gets sold at 14 crores to Punjab Kings

Mustafizur Rahman

Just a single bidder for 'The Fizz'

Sold to Rajasthan at base price of 1 crore

Adam Milne

The bid starts at 50 lakh.

Mumbai and Rajasthan vying against each other and the bid now stands with MI at 2 crores.

Both teams are still fighting it out for the right arm seamer and Sunrisers have swooped in at 2.4 crores.

The bid is up at 3.2 crores with the Mumbai Indians and sold.

Adam Milne sold at 3.2 crores to MI

Glenn Philips

Philips base price of Rs 50 lakhs goes unsold

Alex Carey

Carey goes unsold

Kusal Perera

Parera goes unsold

Dawid Malan 

Bidding starts at 1.50 crores.

Punjab take Malan for Rs 1.5 crore.

Chris Morris

Bidding begins at Rs 75 lakhs and RCB open with Rs 80 lakh bid.

Bidding going thick and fast here with MI and RCB going aggressively for the all-rounder.

Bidding going past Rs 8 crore and MI and RCB are in the game.

Bidding touches Rs 9 crore by MI and RCB are still not giving up.

MI take it past Rs 10 crore and now RR come in the contest.

RR now take it past Rs 11 crore.

There are huge interests for Morris and Mumbai have thrown their might with Rs 12 crore bid.

Now, Morris gets bid at more than Rs 13 crore.

RR, MI and RCB are in a three-way contest with Rs 13.75 crore bid.

Now, Punjab make it a bid of Rs 15 crore.

Morris is on the verge of beating Pat Cummins as the most expensive overseas player.

Morris is the most expensive overseas signing with bid running at Rs 15.75 crore.

Now, Punjab take it to Rs 16 crore.

Serious desperation for Morris and he now defeats Yuvraj Singh as the most expensive player ever signed in the history of the league. 

RR get Morris for Rs 16.25 crore.

Glenn Maxwell

Bidding starts at Rs 2 crore and the KKR open at base price. Rajasthan and KKR going for him. RCB too in the mix and now it's a three-way contest for Maxwell. RCB take it to Rs 4 crore and bids continue for the all-rounder. Now, CSK come in the fray and it's an all-out war for Maxwell at the moment.

Bids going to Rs 6.25 crore and RCB are at the top.

Bids now at Rs 7 crore with CSK

RCB overtake CSK with Rs 7.25 crore

CSK go one higher with Rs 8 crore bid

Contest heating up between CSK and RCB and now men in yellow come with Rs 10 crore bid.

CSK now take it to Rs 12 crore and Maxwell will be smiling in Melbourne.

No end in sight for the desperation of Maxwell gaming franchises and bid goes past Rs 12.25 crore.

CSK take it to Rs 13 crore and RCB are not giving up on Maxwell yet.

Now, it's Rs 14 crore. CSK need him badly it seems. 

And, Maxwell goes to RCB at a whopping Rs 14.25 crore.

Moeen Ali

Bids start at Rs 2 crore.

CSK and Punjab going for him with aggressive bids one after another.

Bidding goes past Rs 4.5 crore and both CSK and Punjab are running close for the all-rounder.

CSK take it to Rs 5 crore and Punjab go a step further at Rs 5.25 crore.

CSK again take it to Rs 6 crore, Punjab again take it to Rs 6.25 crore, but CSK snatch it from them with Rs 6.5 crore bid.

CSK going big here for Moeen after jumping off from Maxwell ride.

CSK take Moeen for Rs 7 crore.

Shakib Al Hasan

Bids start at Rs 2 crore and Punjab Kings are in the game here.

KKR take it to Rs 2.4 crore and Punjab come back with Rs 3 crore.

All-rounder goes to KKR for Rs 3.2 crore.

Shivam Dube

Bidding starts at the base price of Rs 50 lakh.

RR take it to Rs 55 laks.

Bidding goes past Rs 3 crore with RR and SRH going for him.

Now, capitals come with Rs 3.8 crore.

RR come back with Rs 4 crore bid and Capitals are in it again with Rs 4.2 crore bid.

RR take Dube at Rs 4.4 crore.

Karun Nair

Bidding starts at Rs 50 lakh and he goes unsold.

Alex Hales

Hales goes unsold at Rs 1.5 crore

Jason Roy

Bids open at Rs 2.0 crore and he too goes unsold.

Steve Smith

Bids open at Rs 2 crore and RCB come with the first bid at base price. The Punjab Kings look interested and they call at Rs 2.2 crore. The capitals make late entry and take Smith for Rs 2 core.

Evin Lewis

Lef-hander goes unsold.

Aaron Finch

Bidding starts at Rs 1 crore and Australia skipper goes unsold.

Hanuma Vihari

Bidding starts at 1 cr and he goes unsold.

Kedar Jadhav

Jadhav goes unsold

To know the full list of the players that have been shortlisted for the auction, CLICK HERE

There were three players who were traded ahead of the auction. Robin Uthappa went to Chennai Super Kings from Rajasthan Royals while Daniel Sams and Harshal Patel were traded to RCB from Delhi Capitals.

Players retained, released and purse remaining for each franchise

Mumbai Indians

PLAYERS RETAINED: Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Quinton de Kock, Anmolpreet Singh, Aditya Tare, Chris Lynn, Saurabh Tiwary, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Jayant Yadav, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohsin Khan, Rahul Chahar, Anukul Roy

PLAYERS RELEASED: Mitchell McCleneghan, James Pattinson, Lasith Malinga, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Sherfane Rutherford, Digvijay Deshmukh, Prince Balwant Rai Singh.

Auction purse left: 15.35 CR

Slots available: 7  Overseas slots: 4

Chennai Super Kings

PLAYERS RETAINED: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, N Jagadeesan, Faf Du Plessis, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sam Curran, Ravi Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Mitchell Santner, Josh Hazlewood, Shardul Thakur, Karn Sharma, KM Asif, Imran Tahir, R Sai Kishore, Deepak Chahar, Lungi Ngidi

PLAYERS RELEASED: Kedar Jadhav, Shane Watson (retired), Piyush Chawla, Murali Vijay, Monu Kumar, Harbhajan Singh

Auction purse left: 22.9 CR

Slots available: 7  Overseas slots: 1

Kolkata Knight Riders

PLAYERS RETAINED: Dinesh Karthik, Andre Russell, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Rinku Singh, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Eoin Morgan (c), Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy, Harry Gurney, Ali Khan

PLAYERS RELEASED: M Siddharth, Nikhil Naik, Siddhesh Lad, Chris Green, Tom Banton

Auction purse left: 10.75 CR

Slots available: 8  Overseas slots: 2

Royal Challengers Bangalore

PLAYERS RETAINED: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Yuzvendra Chahal, Devdutt Padikkal, Josh Philippe, Mohammad Siraj, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pawan Deshpande, Adam Zampa, Kane Richardson.

PLAYERS RELEASED: Chris Morris, Aaron Finch, Moeen Ali, Isuru Udana, Shivam Dube, Umesh Yadav, Pawan Negi, Gurkeerat Mann, Parthiv Patel (retired), Dale Steyn (opted out)

Auction purse left: 35.40 cr

Slots available: 13  Overseas slots: 4

Sunrisers Hyderabad

PLAYERS RETAINED: David Warner, Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, T. Natarajan, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha, Abdul Samad, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh

PLAYERS RELEASED: Sanjay Yadav, Sandeep Bhavanka, Billy Stanlake, Fabian Allen and Yarra Prithviraj

Auction purse left: 10.75 CR

Slots available: 3 Overseas slots: 1

Punjab Kings

PLAYERS RETAINED:  K.L. Rahul, Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Nicholas Pooran, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Prabhsimran Singh, Mohammed Shami, Chris Jordan, Darshan Nalkande, Ravi Bishnoi, Murugan Ashwin, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Ishan Porel.

PLAYERS RELEASED: Glenn Maxwell, Sheldon Cottrell, K Gowtham, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Jimmy Neesham, Hardus Viljoen and Karun Nair

Auction purse left: 53.2 CR

Slots available: 9  Overseas slots: 5

Rajasthan Royals

PLAYERS RETAINED: Sanju Samson, Mahipal Lomror, Manan Vohra, Riyan Parag, Robin Uthappa, David Miller, Mayank Markande, Jofra Archer, Shreyas Gopal, Jaydev Unadkat, Kartik Tyagi, Andrew Tye, Ben Stokes, Rahul Tewatia, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Anuj Rawat

PLAYERS RELEASED: Steve Smith, Varun Aaron, Tom Curran, Ankit Rajpoot, Aniruddha Joshi, Shashank Singh, Oshane Thomas, Akash Singh

Auction purse left: 37.85 CR

Slots available: 8  Overseas slots: 3

Delhi Capitals

PLAYERS RETAINED: Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, R Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Pravin Dubey, Lalit Yadav, Chris Woakes,

PLAYERS RELEASED: Keemo Paul, Sandeep Lamichhane, Alex Carey, Mohit Sharma, Tushar Deshpande, Jason Roy.

PLAYERS TRADED: Harshal Patel, Daniel Sams (players traded to RCB)

Auction purse left: 12.9 CR

Slots available: 6  Overseas slots: 2