As many as 351 players were up for grabs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019 auction, but the eight teams in the cash-rich league had only 70 slots to fill among them. There were players like Shimron Hetmyer, Axar Patel, Nicholas Pooran, Carlos Brathwaite and Jaydev Unadkat, who bagged big money at the auctions.
New faces Varun Chakravarthy and Shivam Dube surprised the cricket fraternity as they were two of the top takers from the auction.
The new face of the auction, Hugh Edmeades, conducted the proceedings as he replaced Richard Madley, who was the auctioneer for the past 11 seasons of IPL.
The IPL, over the years, have never failed to amaze the cricketing fraternity with the unpredictability during the auctions. There have been many instances where big names have remained unsold, while the lesser-known names have grabbed the limelight by bagging big money and it was no different this year.
Prabhsimran Singh was one of those names as the 17-year-old wicketkeeper got Rs 4.80 crore from Kings XI Punjab for his services, while Akshdeep Nath fetched a hefty Rs 3.60 from Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Full list of sold players in the Indian Premier League 2019 auctions:
- Hanuma Vihari to Delhi Capitals for Rs 2 crore
- Shimron Hetmyer to RCB for Rs 4.20 crore
- Carlos Brathwaite to KKR for Rs 5 crore
- Gurkeerat Singh to RCB for Rs 50 lakh
- Moises Henriques to KXIP for Rs 1 crore
- Axar Patel to DC for Rs 5 crore
- Jonny Bairstow to SRH for Rs 2.20 crore
- Nicholas Pooran to KXIP for Rs 4.20 crore
- Wriddhiman Saha to SRH for Rs 1.20 crore
- Jaydev Unadkat to RR for Rs 8.40 crore
- Ishant Sharma to DC for Rs 1.10 crore
- Lasith Malinga to MI for Rs 2 crore
- Mohammed Shami to KXIP for Rs 4.80 crore
- Varun Aaron to RR for Rs 2.40 crore
- Mohit Sharma to CSK for Rs 5 crore
- Devdutt Padikkal to RCB for Rs 20 lakh
- Anmolpreet Singh to MI for Rs 80 lakh
- Sarfaraz Khan to KXIP for Rs 25 lakh
- Shivam Dube to RCB for Rs 5 crore
- Varun Chakravarthy to KXIP for Rs 8.40 crore
- Ankush Bains to DC for Rs 20 lakh
- Nathu Singh to DC for Rs 20 lakh
- Colin Ingram to DC for Rs 6.40 crore
- Sam Curran to KXIP for Rs 7.20 crore
- Heinrich Klaasen to RCB for Rs 50 lakh
- Barinder Sran to MI for Rs 3.40 crore
- Lockie Ferguson to KKR fo Rs 1.60 crore
- Sherfane Rutherford to DC for Rs 2 crore
- Anrich Nortje to KKR for Rs 20 lakh
- Oshane Thomas to RR for
- Hardus Viljoen to KXIP for Rs 75 lakh
- Himmat Singh to RCB for Rs 65 lakh
- Nikhil Naik to KKR for Rs 20 lakh
- Arshdeep Singh to KXIP for Rs 20 lakh
- Harry Gurney to KKR for Rs 75 lakh
- Pankaj Jaswal to MI for Rs 20 lakh
- Milind Kumar to RCB for Rs 20 lakh
- Darshan Nalkande to KXIP for Rs 30 lakh
- Shashank Singh to RR for Rs 30 lakh
- Prabhsimran Singh to KXIP for Rs 4.80 crore
- Rasikh Daar to MI for Rs 20 lakh
- Prithvi Raj Yarra to KKR for Rs 20 lakh
- Liam Livingstone to RR for Rs 50 lakh
- Keemo Paul to DC for Rs 50 lakh
- Prayas Ray Barman to RCB for Rs 1.50 crore
- Agnivesh Ayachi to KXIP for Rs 20 lakh
- Harpreet Brar to KXIP for Rs 20 lakh
- Martin Guptill to SRH for Rs 1 crore
- Yuvraj Singh to MI for Rs 1 crore
- Akshdeep Nath to RCB for Rs 3.60 crore
- Jalaj Saxena to DC for Rs 20 lakh
- Murugan Ashwin to KXIP for Rs 20 lakh
- Ruturaj Gaikwad to CSK for Rs 20 lakh
- Shubham Ranjane to RR for Rs 20 lakh
- Joe Denly to KKR for Rs 1 crore
- Bandaru Ayyappa to DC for Rs 20 lakh
- Shrikant Mudhe to KKR for Rs 20 lakh
- Manan Vohra to RR for Rs 20 lakh
- Ashton Turner to RR for Rs 50 lakh
- Riyan Parag to RR for Rs 20 lakh