IPL Auction 2024: Everything you need to know about upcoming mini-auction

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has confirmed that the upcoming IPL mini-auction will take place on December 19 in Dubai. Ahead of that, all ten franchises released a lot of players and have a lot to shop before the cash-rich league begins in about three months. The date for the commencement of the tournament isn’t finalized as there remains a possibility of the tournament being hosted by two countries.

Due to the Lok Sabha Elections in 2024, BCCI may think of organizing the tournament's first half in some other country, as it happened in 2014. However, in 2019, they were successful in hosting the entire tournament in India and that remains to be a plan as well. Still, everything will be decided after the Election Commission confirms the dates.

In the meantime, Hardik Pandya’s trade to Mumbai Indians has made the headlines. The former Gujrat Titans skipper showed interest in coming back to his old franchise as MI brought him by trading Cameron Green to Royal Challengers Bangalore. On the other hand, Kolkata Knight Riders released Shardul Thakur and Lockie Ferguson, just after a season as both cricketers were costing them more than INR 10 crore.

When it comes to defending champions Chennai Super Kings, they have released Ben Stokes after the all-rounder pulled out of the competition. Ambati Rayudu retired after the win in 2023 and hence, the franchise has a lot of money to shop from in the IPL auction.

Rajasthan Royals and Punjab Kings haven’t released too many cricketers and have eight slots each to fill. Sunrisers Hyderabad, on the other hand, once again released a lot of cricketers, including Harry Brook, who is deemed to be one of England’s greats. There are rumours of the franchise trading Mayank Agarwal to Kolkata but nothing has been confirmed so far.

Overall, 173 players are retained ahead of the mini-auction for IPL 2024. A total of 77 players can be bought on December 19 and a total of 262.95 crore is available to all the franchises.

Meanwhile, let’s look at everything you need to know ahead of the IPL 2024 mini-auction:

Where and when will the IPL 2024 mini-auction be held?

IPL 2024 mini-auction will take place on December 19 in Dubai. This is the first time that the auction will be taking place outside of India.

Where to catch the live streaming and telecast of the IPL 2024 mini-auction?

Star Sports Network is the official broadcaster of IPL 2024 in India and hence, will provide the live telecast of the bidding event. Fans can switch to JioCinema to catch the live streaming.

What is the current squad of all teams?

Chennai Super Kings - MS Dhoni (c) (wk), Moeen Ali, Deepak Chahar, Devon Conway (wk), Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajay Mandal, Mukesh Choudhary, Matheesha Pathirana, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Mitchell Santner, Simarjeet Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana

Kolkata Knight Riders - Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Shreyas Iyer, Jason Roy, Sunil Narine, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy

Delhi Capitals - Rishabh Pant, Pravin Dubey, David Warner, Vicky Ostwal, Prithvi Shaw, Anrich Nortje, Abishek Porel, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Lungi Ngidi, Lalit Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed, Mitchell Marshm, Ishant Sharma, Yash Dhull, Mukesh Kumar

Rajasthan Royals - Sanju Samson (c) (wk), Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Avesh Khan

Punjab Kings - Shikhar Dhawan (c), Matthew Short, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Sikandar Raza, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis, Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa, Shivam Singh

Sunrisers Hyderabad - Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram (c), Marco Jansen, Rahul Tripathi, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Sanvir Singh, Heinrich Klaasen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Agarwal, T Natarajan, Anmolpreet Singh, Mayank Markande, Upendra Singh Yadav, Umban Malik, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Shahbaz Ahmed

Lucknow Super Giants - KL Rahul (c), Quinton de Kock, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Krunal Pandya, Yudhvir Singh, Prerak Mankad, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Mark Wood, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Devdutt Padikkal

Mumbai Indians - Rohit Sharma (c), Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, N. Tilak Verma, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Hardik Pandya, Cameron Green, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Jason Behrendorff, Romario Shepherd

Gujarat Titans - David Miller, Shubman Gill (c), Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, B. Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Mohammed Shami, Noor Ahmad, R. Sai Kishore, Rashid Khan, Joshua Little, Mohit Sharma.

Royal Challengers Bangalore - Faf du Plessis (c), Glenn Maxwell, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Suyash Prabhudessai, Will Jacks, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Mayank Dagar, Vyshak Vijay Kumar, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar, Cameron Green

Remaining purse of all the teams: