It was a historic day as the curtains drew after an entertaining day in Dubai. Ten teams fought tooth and nail to land their favorite players during the IPL Auction 2024. Australians Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins made history becoming the costliest IPL players.
During the day it felt like a war room. Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad seemed intent on getting players from their squad from last season right. Kavya Maran set the ball rolling with the capture of Travis Head to show what was coming ahead.
As the season begins in three months, each team now knows what they have to work with. All ten teams have a settled IPL Squad for the 2024 season as we cast a closer look at what went down at the Auction table.
Chennai Super Kings –
Retained players - Ajay Mandal, Ajinkya Rahane, Deepak Chahar, Devon Conway, Maheesh Theekshana, Matheesha Pathirana, Mitchell Santner, Moeen Ali, MS Dhoni, Mukesh Choudhary, Nishant Sindhu, Prashant Solanki, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravindra Jadeja, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shaik Rasheed, Shivam Dube, Simarjeet Singh, Tushar Deshpande
Players Signed – Daryl Mitchell, Shardul Thakur, Sameer Rizvi, Avinash Rao, and Mustafizur Rahman.
Gujarat Titans –
Retained players - Abhinav Sadarangani, B. Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, David Miller, Jayant Yadav, Joshua Little, Kane Williamson, Matthew Wade, Mohammad Shami, Mohit Sharma, Noor Ahmad, R. Sai Kishore, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Shubman Gill, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha
Players Signed – Spencer Johnson, Shah Rukh Khan, Umesh Yadav, Robin Minz, Kartik Tyagi, Sushant Mishra, Manav Sutar, and Azmatullah Omarzai.
Delhi Capitals –
Retained Players - Abhishek Porel, Anrich Nortje, Axar Patel, David Warner, Ishant Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav, Lalit Yadav, Lungisani Ngidi, Mitchell Marsh, Mukesh Kumar, Pravin Dubey, Prithvi Shaw, Rishabh Pant, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Vicky Ostwal, Yash Dhull
Players Signed - Kumar Kushagra, Jhye Richardson, Harry Brook, Rasikh Salam, Ricky Bhui, Shai Hope, and Swastik Chikkara
Kolkata Knight Riders –
Retained Players - Andre Russell, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Jason Roy, Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Sunil Narine, Suyash Sharma, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Venkatesh Iyer
Players Signed - Mitchell Starc, Chetan Sakariya, KS Bharat, Ramandeep Singh, Angkrish Raghuvnashi, Manish Pandey, Mujeeb Rahman, Gus Atkinson, and Sakib Hussain
Lucknow Super Giants –
Retained players - Amit Mishra, Ayush Badoni, Deepak Hooda, Devdutt Padikkal (T), K. Gowtham, KL Rahul, Krunal Pandya, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Mark Wood, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Naveen Ul Haq, Nicholas Pooran, Prerak Mankad, Quinton De Kock, Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Thakur, and Yudhvir Charak
Players Signed - Shivam Mavi, M Siddharth, Arshin Kulkarni, and Mohammad Arshad Khan.
Mumbai Indians –
Retained Players - Akash Madhwal, Arjun Tendulkar, Cameron Green, Dewald Brevis, Ishan Kishan, Jason Behrendorff, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, N. Tilak Varma, Nehal Wadhera, Piyush Chawla, Rohit Sharma, Romario Shepherd (T), Shams Mulani, Surya Kumar Yadav, Tim David, Hardik Pandya, and Vishnu Vinod
Players Signed - Gerald Coetzee, Nuwan Thushara, Dilshan Madushanka, Anshul Kamboj, Naman Dhir, Shreyas Gopal, Mohammad Nabi, and Shivalik Sharma
Punjab Kings –
Retained Players - Arshdeep Singh, Atharva Taide, Harpreet Brar, Harpreet Bhatia, Jitesh Sharma, Jonny Bairstow, Kagiso Rabada, Liam Livingstone, Nathan Ellis, Prabhsimran Singh, Rahul Chahar, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran, Shikhar Dhawan, Shivam Singh, Sikandar Raza, and Vidwath Kaverappa
Players Signed - Harshal Patel, Chris Woakes, Tanay Thyagarajan, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Singh, Prince Choudhary, Shashank Singh, and Rilee Rossouw
Rajasthan Royals –
Retained Players - Adam Zampa, Avesh Khan (T), Dhruv Jurel, Donovan Ferreira, Jos Buttler, Kuldeep Sen, Kunal Rathore, Navdeep Saini, Prasidh Krishna, R. Ashwin, Riyan Parag, Sandeep Sharma, Sanju Samson, Shimron Hetm-yer, Trent Boult, Yashaswi Jaiswal, Yuzvendra Chahal
Players Signed - Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Tom-Kohler Cadmore, Abid Mushtaq, and Nandre Burger
Royal Challengers Bangalore –
Retained Players - Akash Deep, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Faf Du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, Himanshu Sharma, Karn Sharma, Mahipal Lomror, Manoj Bhandage, Mayank Dagar (T), Mohammed Siraj, Rajan Kumar, Rajat Patidar, Reece Topley, Suyash Prabhudessai, Virat Kohli, Vyshak Vijay Kumar, Will Jacks
Players Signed - Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Tom Curran, Lockie Ferguson, Swapnil Singh, and Saurav Chauhan
Sunrisers Hyderabad –
Retained Players - Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Anmolpreet Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Glenn Phillips, Heinrich Klaasen, Marco Jansen, Mayank Agarwal, Mayank Markande, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Rahul Tripathi, Sanvir Singh, Shahbaz Ahamad (T), T. Natarajan, Umran Malik, Upendra Singh Yadav, Washington Sundar
Players Signed - Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Jaydev Unadkat, Wanindu Hasaranga, Akash Singh, and Jhathavedh Subramanyan