On Monday, during the second and final day of the Indian Premier League (IPL) player auction, fast bowlers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Deepak Chahar emerged as the highest-paid players with record-breaking bids. A team-wise breakdown of the players that were purchased and the money spent by each franchise is as follows:
Chennai Super Kings
Total Spending: ₹119.95 crore
Players Bought (25): Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ravindra Jadeja, Matheesha Pathirana, Shivam Dube, Noor Ahmad, Nathan Ellis, Devon Conway, Khaleel Ahmed, Rachin Ravindra, MS Dhoni, Anshul Kamboj, Mukesh Choudhary, Rahul Tripathi, Vijay Shankar, Shreyas Gopal, Sam Curran, Gurjapneet Singh, Deepak Hooda, Jamie Overton, Vansh Bedi, C. Andre Siddharth, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Sheikh Rasheed, R. Ashwin, Kamlesh Nagarkoti.
Delhi Capitals
Total Spending: ₹119.80 crore
Players Bought (23): Axar Patel, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Kuldeep Yadav, T. Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Tristan Stubbs, Mitchell Starc, KL Rahul, Harry Brook, Abhishek Porel, Darshan Nalkande, Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Faf du Plessis, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira, Dushmantha Chameera, Vipraj Nigam, Karun Nair, Madhav Tiwari, Manvant Kumar, Ajay Mandal, Tripuran Vijay.
Gujarat Titans
Total Spending: ₹119.85 crore
Players Bought (25): Jos Buttler, Shubman Gill, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Kumar Kushagra, Sai Sudharsan, M. Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Washington Sundar, Ishant Sharma, Sherfane Rutherford, Kagiso Rabada, Rashid Khan, Gerald Coetzee, Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Glenn Phillips, Mahipal Lomror, Gurnoor Brar, Arshad Khan, Karim Janat, Jayant Yadav, Nishant Sindhu, Anuj Rawat, Kulwant Khejroliya.
Lucknow Super Giants
Total Spending: ₹119.90 crore
Players Bought (24): Rishabh Pant, Ayush Badoni, Mayank Yadav, Mitchell Marsh, Avesh Khan, Akash Deep, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Mohsin Khan, Shahbaz Ahmed, Shamar Joseph, Aiden Markram, Manimaran Siddharth, Matthew Breetzke, Arshin Kulkarni, Digvesh Singh, Prince Yadav, Nicholas Pooran, Yuvraj Choudhary, Ravi Bishnoi, Akash Singh, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Aryan Juyal, Himmat Singh.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Total Spending: ₹119.95 crore
Players Bought (21): Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Anrich Nortje, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh, Quinton de Kock, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Spencer Johnson, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Moeen Ali, Vaibhav Arora, Rovman Powell, Ajinkya Rahane, Umran Malik, Manish Pandey, Anukul Roy, Lavnith Sisodia, Mayank Markande.
Mumbai Indians
Total Spending: ₹119.80 crore
Players Bought (23): Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, Rohit Sharma, Trent Boult, Deepak Chahar, Tilak Varma, Naman Dheer, Will Jacks, AM Ghazanfar, Mitchell Santner, Ryan Rickelton, Reece Topley, Robin Minz, Karn Sharma, Bevan Jacobs, Satyanarayan Raju, Raj Bawa, Ashwini Kumar, Krishnan Srijit, Lizaad Williams, Vignesh Puthur, Arjun Tendulkar.
Punjab Kings
Total Spending: ₹119.65 crore
Players Bought (25): Shreyas Iyer, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Vishnu Vinod, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Marcus Stoinis, Shashank Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Glenn Maxwell, Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Josh Inglis, Azmatullah Omarzai, Lockie Ferguson, Yash Thakur, Harpreet Brar, Aaron Hardie, Kuldeep Sen, Xavier Bartlett, Suryansh Shedge, Paila Avinash, Mushir Khan, Harnoor Singh, Praveen Dubey.
Rajasthan Royals
Total Spending: ₹119.70 crore
Players Bought (20): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Jofra Archer, Shimron Hetmyer, Tushar Deshpande, Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Nitish Rana, Sandeep Sharma, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kwena Mphaka, Akash Madhwal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Shubham Dube, Yudhvir Singh, Kumar Kartikeya, Ashok Sharma, Kunal Singh Rathore.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Total Spending: ₹119.25 crore
Players Bought (22): Jitesh Sharma, Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Rajat Patidar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rasikh Salam, Liam Livingstone, Krunal Pandya, Yash Dayal, Suyash Sharma, Jacob Bethell, Devdutt Padikkal, Nuwan Thushara, Romario Shepherd, Lungi Ngidi, Swapnil Singh, Josh Hazlewood, Abhinandan Singh, Swastik Chikara, Mohit Rathi, Manoj Bhandge, Tim David.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Total Spending: ₹119.80 crore
Players Bought (20): Heinrich Klaasen, Pat Cummins, Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan, Mohammed Shami, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Jaydev Unadkat, Harshal Patel, Abhinav Manohar, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa, Simarjeet Singh, Sachin Baby, Ishan Malanga, Brydon Carse, Kamindu Mendis, Zeeshan Ansari, Aniket Verma, Atharva Taide.
This auction highlighted intense competition as teams strategically filled their squads with both young and experienced players, using their allocated budgets to the maximum.