IPL 2019 Auction: Who did Delhi Capitals (DC) bought in 2019 IPL Player Auction
IPL 2019 Auction: The 2019 IPL Player Auction will take place on December 18 with 351 players going under the hammer. However, there are only 70 remaining slots in the eight IPL franchises. 228 Indians and 123 international players are included in the short list for IPL auction this year. These names were decided on the basis of the lists submitted by the eight IPL franchises. For IPL 2019 auction, the salary cap has been raised from Rs 80 to Rs 82 crores for the eight teams. The auction hammer will be yielded not by the known face of Richard Madley but by Hugh Edmeades for the 12th season of IPL.
Here's where Delhi Capitals (DC) stand before the IPL 2019 Auction
Delhi Capitals (previously Delhi DareDevils)
Retained: Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Rahul Tewatia, Jayant Yadav, Manjot Kalra, Colin Munro, Chris Morris, Kagiso Rabada, Sandeep Lamichhane, Trent Boult
Released: Jason Roy, Junior Dala, Liam Plunkett, Mohammed Shami, Sayan Ghosh, Daniel Christian, Glenn Maxwell, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Naman Ojha
Traded: Shikhar Dhawan from SRH for Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem with Delhi Capitals
Salary cap available: Rs 25.50 crore
Available slots: 10 (Indian 7, Overseas 3)
1. IPL Auction 2019: What Delhi Capitals need
What Delhi Capitals need: With Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw and captain Shreyas Iyer they have a soild top order. However, they have to a find replacements for Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Shami and Gautam Gambhir.
Players DC could target at IPL auction 2019: Brendon McCullum, Carlos Brathwaite, Corey Anderson and Ishant Sharma
2. Colin Ingram
Colin Ingram (Base price Rs 2 crores) sold to Delhi Capitals for Rs 6.40 crores
3. Axar Patel
Axar Patel (Base price Rs 1 crore) sold to Delhi Capitals for Rs 5 crores
4. Hanuma Vihari
Hanuma Vihari (Base price Rs 50 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for Rs 2 crores
5. Sherfane Rutherford
Sherfane Rutherford (Base price Rs 40 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for Rs 2 crore
6. Ishant Sharma
Ishant Sharma (Base price Rs 75 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for Rs 1.1 crores
7. Ankush Bains
Ankush Bains (Base price Rs 20 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for Rs 20 lakhs
8. Keemo Paul
Keemo Paul (Base price Rs 50 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for Rs 50 lakh
9. Nathu Singh
Nathu Singh (Base price Rs 20 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for Rs 20 lakhs
10. Jalaj Saxena
Jalaj Saxena (Base price Rs 20 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for Rs 20 lakh
11. B Ayyappa
B Ayyappa (Base price Rs 20 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for Rs 20 lakh