IPL Auction 2018, Day 1

It's come to that time of the year, where cricket players turn into little wooden nuggets pulled out of a bag. Where filthy rich men and women sit around in circles with millions of dollars to be thrown out. Where a hammer and a few paddles decide what your drives and pulls are worth. It’s the second decade of this mad extravaganza we can never get enough of. Bring out your scientific calculators, bracket in your budgets, punch in your preferences, hide your RTMs and save the choicest of abuses for your team's owners.

The first day of IPL 2018’s auction was full of surprises. KXIP’s grabbing of Ravichandran Ashwin to KKR’s letting go of Gautam Gambhir, the teams have come with whole new strategies to build their respective teams. The first day of 2018 IPL auction also witnessed teams fighting for popular international cricketers. While players like Ben Stokes, Glenn Maxwell, Chris Woakes and Chris Lynn earned crores, what was surprising that a host of capped players including the likes of Chris Gayle, Lasith Malinga, Joe Root, Martin Guptill, Hashim Amla among others went unsold.

BIG NAMES IGNORED

Former Mumbai Indians pacer Lasith Malinga, one of the most high-profile players in IPL's history was also ignored by the teams on the first day.

Here's a list of all capped players that went unsold on the first day of 2018 IPL auction:

Chris Gayle (2 crores)

Joe Root (1.5 crores)

James Faulkner (2 crores)

Josh Hazlewood (2 crores)

Mitchell Johnson (2 crores)

Murali Vijay (2 crores)

Jonny Bairstow (1.5 crores)

Hashim Amla (1.5 crores)

Adam Zampa (1 crore)

Parthiv Patel (1 crore)

Sam Billings (1 crore)

Samuel Badree (1 crore)

Tim Southee (1 crore)

Mitchell McClenaghan (1 crore)

Lasith Malinga (1 crore)

Martin Guptill (75 lakh)

Naman Ojha (75 lakh)

Ishant Sharma (75 lakh)

Ish Sodhi (50 lakh)

The franchises could decide to call back an unsold player into the auction on day two.

A total of 78 players were sold on the first day of the auction. Over INR 321 crore was spent by 8 teams. Ben Stokes emerged as the most expensive on the first day, with Rajasthan Royals bagging him for INR 12.5 crore. KL Rahul and Manish Pandey were the most expensive Indian players for INR 11 crore. Kings XI Punjab got Pandey, while Sunrisers Hyderabad bagged Pandey.

Here is the list of players who have been bought by the respective team owners on the first day of the auction.

Chennai Super Kings team so far

MS Dhoni (Indian) (Rs. 15 Cr)

Ravindra Jadeja (Indian) (Rs. 7 Cr)

Suresh Raina (Indian) (Rs. 11 Cr)

Harbhajan Singh (Indian) (Rs. 2 Cr)

Faf du Plessis (Overseas) (Rs. 1.6 Cr RTM)

Dwayne Bravo (Overseas)(Rs. 6.4 Cr RTM)

Shane Watson (Overseas) (Rs. 4 Cr)

Kedar Jadhav (Indian)( Rs. 7.8 Cr)

Ambati Rayudu (Indian) (Rs. 2.2 Cr)

Imran Tahir (Overseas) (Rs 1 Cr)

Karan Sharma (Indian)(Rs. 5 Cr)

 

Sunrisers Hyderabad teams so far

David Warner (Overseas) (Rs 12.5 Cr)

Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Indian) ( Rs 8.5 Cr)

Shakib Al Hasan (Overseas)( Rs. 2 Cr)

Kane Williamson (Overseas)( Rs 3 Cr)

Shikhar Dhawan (Indian)( Rs 5.2 Cr RTM)

Manish Pandey (Indian)(Rs 11 Cr)

Carlos Brathwaite (Overseas)(Rs 2 Cr)

Yusuf Pathan (Indian)(Rs 1.9 Cr)

Wriddhiman Saha (Indian)( Rs 5Cr)

Rashid Khan (Overseas)(Rs 9 Cr RTM)

Ricky Bhui (Indian)( Rs 20 Lakh)

Deepak Hooda (Indian)(Rs 3.6 Cr)

Siddarth Kaul (Indian)(Rs 3.8 Cr)

T Natarajan (Indian)( Rs 40 Lakh)

Basil Thampi (Indian)(Rs 95 Lakh)

Syed Khaleel Ahmed (Indian)( Rs 3 cr)

 

Delhi Daredevils team so far

Chris Morris (Overseas) (Rs 11 Cr)

Shreyas Iyer (Indian)(Rs 7 cr) 

Rishabh Pant (Indian)( Rs 15 Cr)

Gautam Gambhir (Indian) (Rs 2.8 cr)

Glenn Maxwell (Overseas)(Rs 9 Cr)

Jason Roy (Overseas)( Rs 1.5 Cr)

Colin Munro (Overseas)(Rs 1.9 Cr)

Mohammed Shami (Indian)(Rs 3 cr RTM)

Kagiso Rabada (Overseas)(Rs 4.2 Cr)

Amit Mishra (Indian)(Rs 4 Cr)

Prithvi Shaw (Indian)(Rs 1.2 Cr)

Rahul Tewatia (Indian)( Rs 3 cr)

Vijay Shankar (Indian)( Rs 3.2 Cr)

Harshal Patel (Indian)(Rs 20 lakh)

Avesh Khan (Indian)( Rs 70 lakh )

 

Kolkata Knight Riders team so far

Sunil Narine (Overseas) ( Rs 12.5 cr)

Andre Russell (Overseas)( Rs 8.5Cr)

Mitchell Starc (Overseas)( Rs 9.4 cr)

Chris Lynn (Overseas)(Rs 9.6cr)

Dinesh Karthik (Indian)(Rs 7.4 cr)

Robin Uthappa (Indian)( Rs 6.4 RTM)

Piyush Chawla (Indian)( Rs 4.2 cr RTM)

Kuldeep Yadav (Indian)( Rs 5.8 RTM)

Shubman Gill (Indian)(Rs 1.8 Cr)

Ishank Jaggi (Indian)(Rs 20 lakh)

Kamlesh Nagarkoti (Indian) ( Rs 3.2 cr)

Nitish Rana (Indian)(Rs 3.4 cr)

 

Kings XI Punjab team so far

Axar Patel (Indian) (Rs 12.5 cr)

Karun Nair (Indian)( Rs 5.6 Cr)

R Ashwin (Indian)(Rs 7.6 Cr)

Yuvraj Singh (Indian)( Rs 2 cr)

KL Rahul (Indian)( Rs 11 Cr)

David Miller (Overseas) (Rs 3 cr RTM)

Aaron Finch (Overseas)(Rs 6.2 cr )

Marcus Stoinis (Overseas)(Rs 6.2 cr RTM)

Mayank Agarwal (Indian)( Rs 1 cr)

Ankit Singh Rajpoot (Indian)( Rs 3 cr)

 

Rajasthan Royals team so far

Steven Smith (Overseas) ( Rs 12.5 Cr)

Ajinkya Rahane (Indian)( Rs 4 cr RTM)

Ben Stokes (Overseas)( Rs 12.5 Cr )

Stuart Binny (Indian)(Rs 50 lakh)

Sanju Samson (Indian)(Rs 8 cr)

Jos Buttler (Overseas)(Rs 4.4 cr)

Rahul Tripathi (Indian)(Rs 3.4 Cr)

D'Arcy Short (Overseas)(Rs 4 cr)

Jofra Archer (Overseas)( Rs 7.2 cr)

 

Royal Challengers Bangalore team so far

Virat Kohli (Indian) ( Rs 17 cr)

AB de Villiers (Overseas)(Rs 3 cr)

Sarfaraz Khan (Indian)(Rs 11 cr)

Brendon McCullum (Overseas)(Rs 3.6 cr)

Chris Woakes (Overseas)(Rs 7.4 cr)

Colin de Grandhomme (Overseas)( Rs 2.2 Cr)

Moeen Ali (Overseas)( Rs 1.7 Cr)

Quinton de Kock (Overseas)(Rs 2.8 cr)

Umesh Yadav (Indian)(Rs 4.2 Cr)

Yuzvendra Chahal (Indian)(Rs 6 Cr)

Manan Vohra (Indian)(Rs 1.1 Cr)

Kulwant Khejroliya (Indian)(Rs 85 lakh)

Aniket Choudhary (Indian)(Rs 30 lakh)

Navdeep Saini (Indian)(Rs 3 Cr)

 

Mumbai Indians team so far:

Rohit Sharma (Indian) (Rs 15 Cr)

Hardik Pandya (Indian)( Rs 7 Cr)

Jasprit Bumrah (Indian)(Rs 11 Cr)

Kieron Pollard (Overseas)(Rs 5.4 Cr RTM)

Mustafizur Rahman (Overseas)(Rs 2.3 Cr )

Pat Cummins (Overseas)(Rs 5.4 Cr)

Suryakumar Yadav(Indian)(Rs 3.2 Cr)

Krunal Pandya (Indian)(Rs 8.8 Cr RTM)

Ishan Kishan (Indian)(Rs 6.2 Cr)