IPL 2019 Auction: Who did Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) 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 Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) stood before the IPL 2019 Auction
Retained: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Parthiv Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Moeen Ali, Mohammed Siraj, Colin de Grandhomme, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya
Released: Brendon McCullum, Corey Anderson, Quinton de Kock, Mandeep Singh, Chris Woakes, Sarfraz Khan
Traded: Mandeep Singh for Marcus Stoinis with KXIP
Salary cap available: Rs 18.15 crore
Available slots: 10 (Indian 8, Overseas 2)
1. Shivam Dube
Shivam Dube (Base price Rs 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 5 crore
2. Shimron Hetmyer
Shimron Hetmyer (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 4.2 crore
3. Akshdeep Nath
Akshdeep Nath (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 3.6 crore
4. Prayas Ray Barman
Prayas Ray Barman (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 1.5 crore
5. Himmat Singh
Himmat Singh (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 65 lakh
6. Heinrich Klaasen
Heinrich Klaasen (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 50 lakh
7. Gurkeerat Singh
Gurkeerat Singh Mann (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 50 lakh
8. Devdutt Padikkal
Devdutt Padikkal (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 20 lakh
9. Milind Kumar
Milind Kumar (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 20 lakh