12 Australian players and their IPL contracts

By New Year’s eve IPL teams had to confirm their preliminary squads for the upcoming season, which required them to decide which players to retain under their current contract terms. And that is what saw 101 players being retained and 61 players were released by the six IPL franchises ahead of the upcoming season. Aussie players have always enhanced the excitement of the franchises and as many as six players from Down Under are going into IPL 2016 season with contracts in excess of a million dollars.

1. Mitchell Johnson (KXIP) – $1.34m:

After success in the Ashes, owners of the Kings XI Punjab decided to hand Johnson a massive payday as he was bought for $1.15m. Despite an underwhelming performance last season, picking up just 9 wickets from 9 games, he still got retained for a whopping sum of $1.34m. Johnson’s decision to retire from international cricket seems to have had an influence on this decision.