Australia's Shane Watson attracted a top bid of $1.4 million and will join the Bangalore franchise for the next edition of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament, while former England batsman Kevin Pietersen was bought by newcomers Pune. All-rounder Watson was in high demand in Saturday's auction for the cash-rich tournament, the ninth edition of which will be played from April 9 to May 29.
Australia's Shane Watson attracted a top bid of $1.4 million and will join the Bangalore franchise for the next edition of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament, while former England batsman Kevin Pietersen was bought by newcomers Pune. All-rounder Watson was in high demand in Saturday's auction for the cash-rich tournament, the ninth edition of which will be played from April 9 to May 29.
"Incredibly excited to join such a great franchise. Looking forward to joining up with my new team mates in April," the 34-year-old said on Twitter.Watson will join a Bangalore team boasting power-hitters Chris Gayle, AB de Villliers and Virat Kohli as well as Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc. Aaron Finch, Australia's captain in the shortest format, went unsold in the first round but was picked up by Rajkot at his base price of 10 million rupees ($147,000) after being invited back in the auction. In-form New Zealand opening batsman Martin Guptill was also unsold in the first round of auction for marquee players. South Africa fast bowler Chris Morris, valued at 5 million rupees, fetched 70 million from Delhi after three franchises showed interest in him. Delhi won another bidding war for West Indies all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite for 42 million and England wicketkeeper batsman Jos Buttler went to Mumbai for 38 million.
Pune, to be led by India's limited-overs captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and coached by former New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming, outbid fellow newcomers Rajkot to land Pietersen for 35 million rupees.
Pune and Rajkot were unveiled as the new teams in the Twenty20 competition, replacing Chennai and Rajasthan who were suspended for two years for their role in an illegal betting scandal.
All-rounder Pawan Negi, who was named in India's World Twenty20 squad on Friday, attracted the highest bid among Indians and was bought by Delhi for 85 million rupees.
India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh, who fetched 160 million rupees at last year's auction, will play for the Hyderabad franchise after being bought for 70 million.
Following is the list of players who were sold in the IPL auction:
Rising Pune Supergiants
Kevin Pietersen sold for Rs 3.5 crores
Ishant Sharma sold for Rs 3.8 crores
Irfan Pathan sold for Rs 1 crore
Mitchell Marsh sold for Rs 4.8 crores
RP Singh sold for Rs 30 lakhs
Ankit Sharma sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Rajat Bhatia sold for Rs 60 lakh
Ishwar Pandey sold for Rs 20 lakh
M Ashwin sold for Rs 4.5 crore
Ankush Bains sold for Rs 10 lakh
Peter Handscomb sold for Rs 30 lakh
Thisara Perera sold for Rs 1 crore
Baba Aparajith sold for Rs 10 lakh
Deepak Chahar sold for Rs 10 lakh
Ashok Dinda sold for Rs 50 lakh
Scott Boland sold for Rs 50 lakh
Adam Zampa sold for Rs 30 lakh
Jaskaran Singh sold for Rs 10 lakh
Gujarat Lions
Dwayne Smith sold for Rs 2.3 crore
Dale Steyn sold for Rs 2.3 crore
Dinesh Karthik sold for Rs 2.3 crore
Dhawal Kulkarni sold for Rs 2 crore
Praveen Kumar sold for Rs 3.5 crore
Paras Dogra sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Ishan Kishan sold for Rs 35 lakhs
Eklavya Dwivedi sold for Rs 1 crore
Pradeep Sangwan sold for Rs 20 lakhs
Pravin Tambe sold for Rs 20 lakhs
Shivil Kaushik sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Sarabjit Ladda sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Aaron Finch sold for Rs 1 crore
Umang Sharma sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Andrew Tye sold for Rs 50 lakh
Shadab Jakati sold for Rs 20 lakh
Akshdeep Nath sold for Rs 10 lakh
Jaydev Shah sold for Rs 20 lakh
Amit Mishra sold for Rs 10 lakh.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Shane Watson sold for Rs 9.5 crore
Stuart Binny sold for Rs 2 crore
Travis Head sold for Rs 50 lakhs
Sachin Baby sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Iqbal Abdulla sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Praveen Dubey sold for Rs 35 lakhs
Akshay Karnewar sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Kane Richardson sold for Rs 2 crore
Samuel Badree sold for Rs 50 lakhs
Vikramjeet Malik sold for Rs 20 lakhs
Vikas Tokas sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Ashish Nehra sold for Rs 5.5 crore
Yuvraj Singh sold for Rs 7 crore
Mustafizur Rahman sold for Rs 1.4 crore
Barinder Sran sold for Rs 1.2 crore
Abhimanyu Mithun sold for Rs 30 lakhs
Aditya Tare sold for Rs 1.2 crore
Deepak Hooda sold for Rs 4.2 crore
T Suman sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Ben Cutting sold for Rs 50 lakhs
Vijay Shankar sold for Rs 35 lakhs
Delhi Daredevils
Pawan Negi sold for Rs 8.5 crore
Sanju Samson sold for Rs 4.2 crore
Chris Morris sold for Rs 7 crore
Carlos Brathwaite sold for Rs 4.2 crore
Karun Nair sold for Rs 4 crore
Rishabh Pant sold for Rs 1.9 crore
Sam Billings sold for Rs 30 lakhs
Khaleel Ahmed sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Pratyush Singh sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Joel Paris sold for Rs 30 lakhs
Akhil Herwadkar sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Chama Milind sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Mahipal Lomror sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Pawan Suyal sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Mumbai Indians
Jos Buttler sold for Rs 3.8 crore
Tim Southee sold for Rs 2.5 crore
Nathu Singh sold for Rs 3.2 crore
Jitesh Sharma sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Kishore Kamath sold for Rs 1.4 crore
Krunal Pandya sold for Rs 2 crore
Deepak Punia sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Kolkata Knight Riders
Colin Munro sold for Rs 30 lakhs
John Hastings sold for Rs 1.3 crore
Jaydev Unadkat sold for Rs 1.6 crore
Ankit Rajpoot sold for Rs 1.5 crore
Jason Holder sold for Rs 70 lakhs
R Sathish sold for Rs 20 lakhs
Manan Sharma sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Kings XI Punjab
Mohit Sharma sold for Rs 6.5 crore
Marcus Stoinis sold for Rs 55 lakhs
Kyle Abbott sold for Rs 2.1 crore
KC Cariappa sold for Rs 80 lakh
Armaan Jaffer sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Pardeep Sahu sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Swapnil Singh sold for Rs 10 lakhs
Farhaan Behardien sold for Rs 30 lakhs.
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