IPL 2023 auction: Final squad of all teams and purse remaining

The ten IPL franchises put up a great fight at the IPL Auction 2023 which concluded on Friday, December 23, in Kochi. The dates and schedule for the tournament have not been announced yet, but after the mind-blowing auction, the excitement has touched the roof. The 16^th edition of the IPL auction witnessed records being broken by the T20 World Cup winners from England.

Sam Curran became the highlight of the evening as six franchises got into a bidding war to get the services of the English all-rounder. In the end, it was Punjab Kings who roped him in for a massive INR 18.50 crore, making him the most expensive player in the history of the Indian Premier League. It was then Australian player Cameron Green, who snatched the limelight by becoming the second-most expensive player in IPL history.

Green, who had registered at a base price of INR 2 crore, was signed by five-time champions Mumbai Indians for a whopping INR 17.50 crore, winning the bidding war against Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals. The next big purchase of the IPL 2023 auction was of England all-rounder and world-cup-winning player Ben Stokes.

Rajasthan Royals, RCB, Lucknow Super Giants, Sunrisers Hyderabad, and Chennai Super Kings went all out for the stylish all-rounder and entered the bidding war. Eventually, CSK ended up signing him for an enormous sum of INR 16.25 crore as he became the franchise’s most expensive buy ever. MI and CSK’s purses almost emptied after their respective purchases of Green and Stokes, but the two champion sides picked up the finest players in one go.

England players ruled the IPL Auction, as SRH went on to sign Harry Brook for INR 13.25 crores, their most expensive purchase across all editions of the tournament. Three franchises, namely RR, RCB, and SRH bid for Harry Brook, who registered himself at a base price of INR 1.5 crore. But the bidding war turned out to be very intense, eventually ending in SRH’s favor.

There were also some shocking and surprising purchases, as Lucknow Super Giants spent INR 16 crore to get the services of Nicholas Pooran. Former PBKS skipper Mayank Agarwal was roped in by SRH for INR 8.25 crore, while there was no fight for Kane Williamson as the Kiwi batter was signed by Gujarat Titans at his base price of INR 2 crore.

Shivam Mavi (INR 6 crore) and Mukesh Kumar (INR 5.5 crore) bagged great deals with Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals, while Narayan Jagadeesan, who recently made headlines for breaking records at the Vijay Hazare Trophy, was roped in by Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 90 Lakhs. Uncapped players Vivrant Sharma (INR 2.6 crore) and Nishant Sindhu (INR 60 lakh) too, came under the spotlight when SRH and CSK roped them in.

From the set of players who went unsold in the first round, Delhi Capitals roped in Rilee Rossouw for INR 4.6 crore. KKR got Litton Das and Mandeep Singh while SRH got Akeal Hosein and Anmolpreet Singh. RR went big at the end by getting Adam Zampa, KM Asif, and Murugan Ashwin among known names. Overall, all ten teams did a brilliant job and managed to build a strong squad. Fans will now be eagerly waiting for the IPL 2023 to get started.

Here's the complete squad of all 10 teams

Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Subhranshu Senapati, Moeen Ali, Ajinkya Rahane, Ben Stokes, Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Mukesh Choudhary, Matheesha Pathirana, Simarjeet Singh, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana, Shaik Rasheed, Nishant Sindhu, Kyle Jamieson, Ajay Mandal, Bhagath Varma

Slots Filled: 25 | Purse Remaining: Rs. 1.5 crore

Delhi Capitals: Rishabh Pant, David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Ripal Patel, Rovman Powell, Sarfaraz Khan, Yash Dhull, Mitchell Marsh, Lalit Yadav, Axar Patel, Anrich Nortje, Chetan Sakariya, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Khaleel Ahmed, Lungi Ngidi, Mustafizur Rahman, Aman Khan, Kuldeep Yadav, Praveen Dubey, Vicky Ostwal, Phil Salt, Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Manish Pandey, Rilee Rossouw

Slots Filled: 25 | Purse Remaining: Rs. 9.05 crore

Gujarat Titans: Hardik Pandya, Shubman Gill, David Miller, Abhinav Manohar, Sai Sudarshan, Wriddhiman Saha, Matthew Wade, Rashid, Khan, Rahul Tewatia Vijay Shankar, Mohammed Shami, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Pradeep Sangwan, Darshan Nalkande, Jayant Yadav, R Sai Kishore, Noor Ahmad, Kane Williamson, Odean Smith, KS Bharat, Shivam Mavi, Urvil Patel, Joshua Little, Mohit Sharma.

Slots Filled: 25 | Purse Remaining: Rs. 4.45 crore

Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, N Jagadeesan, Vaibhav Arora, Suyash Sharma, David Wiese, Kulwant Khejroliya, Mandeep Singh, Litton Das, Shakib Al Hasan

Slots Filled: 22 | Purse Remaining: Rs. 4.15 crore

Lucknow Super Giants: KL Rahul, Ayush Badoni, Karan Sharma, Manan Vohra, Quinton de Kock, Marcus Stoinis, Krishnappa Gowtham, Deepak Hooda, Kyle Mayers, Krunal Pandya, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Mark Wood, Mayank Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi, Nicholas Pooran, Jaydev Unadkat, Yash Thakur, Romario Shepherd, Daniel Sams, Amit Mishra, Prerak Mankad, Swapnil Singh, Naveen ul Haq, Yudhvir Charak

Slots Filled: 25 | Purse Remaining: Rs. 4.25 crore

Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, Tim David, Ramandeep Singh, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Dewald Brevis, Ishan Kishan, Tristan Stubbs, Jofra Archer, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshad Khan, Jason Behrendorff, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Hrithik Shokeen, Arjun Tendulkar, Cameron Green, Jhye Richardson, Piyush Chawla, Duan Jansen, Vishnu Vinod, Shams Mulani, Nehal Vadhera, Raghav Goyal

Slots Filled: 24 | Purse Remaining: Rs. 25 lakh

Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan, Shahrukh Khan, Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jitesh Sharma, Raj Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis, Baltej Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa, Mohit Rathee, Shivam Singh

Slots Filled: 22 | Purse Remaining: Rs. 12.20 crore

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis, Finn Allen, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Suyash Prabhudessai, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Wanindu Hasaranga, Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, Siddarth Kaul, Mohammed Siraj, Harshal Patel, Karn Sharma, David Willey, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Will Jacks, Manoj Bhandage, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Sonu Yadav

Slots Filled: 25 | Purse Remaining: Rs. 1.75 crore

Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Jos Buttler, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Prasidh Krishna, Trent Boult, Obed McCoy, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Sen, Kuldip Yadav, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, KC Cariappa, Jason Holder, Joe Root, Donovan Ferriera, Adam Zampa, Kunal Rathore, KM Asif, Murugan Ashwin, Akash Vashisht, Abdul PA

Slots Filled: 25 | Purse Remaining: Rs. 6.75 crore

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Karthik Tyagi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik, Harry Brook, Mayank Agarwal, Heinrich Klaasen, Adil Rashid, Mayank Markande, Vivrant Sharma, Samarth Vyas, Sanvir Singh, Upendra Singh Yadav, Mayank Dagar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Akeal Hosein, Anmolpreet Singh

 Slots Filled: 25 | Purse Remaining: Rs. 7.75 crore