Are you ready for the biggest t20 league on planet earth? IPL 2020 is about to kick off in a few weeks. The IPL 2020 auction is going to be held in Kolkata for the first time in the history of IPL. IPL Officials have announced the auction date of the league.
It will be held on 19th December 2020 in Kolkata. You can watch live IPL coverage on various online platforms. Different franchises have released 71 players before IPL 2020 auction.
A total of 127 players is retained, including 35 foreign players. A total of 60 matches will be played between the 8 teams of IPL 2020.
Dream11 IPL 2020 Auction
Kings Xl Punjab has released eight players before the auction including their hard hitter David Miller, Varun Chakravarthy, and Sam Curran. They are going into the auction with a purse of about Rs 42.70 crore.
Defending champions Mumbai India is going to retain 18 players including veteran Sri Lanka star Lasith Malinga despite the fitness issues he is going through. The franchise released its 12 players.
Chennai Super Kings have won three IPL titles but they are going to spend only 14.60 crores on IPL 2020 auction.
Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Banglore has only 28 crores to buy players for IPL 2020.
IPL 2020 Auction Franchise Auction Purse
| Team | Auction Purse (Indian Rupees) |
| Kings Xl Punjab | 42.70 Crore |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 35.65 Crore |
| Rajasthan Royals | 28.90 Crore |
| Royal Challengers Banglore | 27.90 Crore |
| Dehli Capitals | 27.85 Crore |
| Sun Risers Hyderabad | 17 Crore |
| Chennai Super Kings | 14. 60 Crore |
| Mumbai Indians | 13.05 Crore |
Rajasthan Royals have released eleven players including Jaydev Unadkat.
Dehli Capitals have released 9 players including Chris Moris and Colin Ingram. The franchise also released New Zealand Colin Munro and Hanuma Vihari
Sunrisers Hyderabad released only five players including star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Martin Guptill, and Deepak Hooda.
Released Players for Dream11 IPL 2020 Auction
The following players were released by the IPL franchises before the auction.
Dehli Capitals
Chris Morris
Colin Munro
Colin Ingram
Ankush Bains
Bandaru Ayyappa
Nathu Singh
Manjot Kalra
Hanuma Vihari
Jalaj Saxena
Chennai Super Kings
Sam Billings
David Willey
Scott Kuggeleijn
Chaitanya Bishnoi
Mohit Sharma
Dhruv Shorey
Kolkata Knight Riders
Carlos Brathwaite
Joe Denly
Chris Lynn
Matt Kelly
Robin Uthappa
Anrich Nortje
KC Cariappa
Nikhil Naik
Shrikant Mundhe
KC Cariappa
Piyush Chawla
Prithvi Raj Yarra
Kings XI Punjab
David Miller
Sam Curran
Moises Henriques
Andrew Tye
Agnivesh Ayachi
Prabhsimran Singh
Varun Chakravarthy
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Martin Guptill
Shakib Al Hasan
Yusuf Pathan
Deepak Hooda
Ricky Bhui
Mumbai Indians
Ben Cutting
Pankaj Jaswal
Alzarri Joseph
Barinder Sran
Beuran Hendricks
Jason Behrendorff
Evin Lewis
Rasikh Dar
Yuvraj Singh
Adam Milne
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Colin de Grandhomme
Marcus Stoinis
Tim Southee
Dale Steyn
Akshdeep Nath
Himmat Singh
Heinrich Klassen
Milind Kumar
Kulwant Khejroliya
Nathan Coulter-Nile
Shimron Hetmyer
Prayas Ray Barman
Rajasthan Royals
Liam Livingstone
Ashton Turner
Aryaman Birla
Shubham Ranjane
Prashant Chopra
Oshane Thomas
Ish Sodhi
Sudhesan Midhun
Stuart Binny
Jaydev Unddkat
Here is the full list of players sold in IPL players’ auction for the 2020 edition:
Dale Steyn: Bought by RCB at his base price of Rs 2 cr
Andrew Tye: Bought by RR at his base price of Rs 1 cr
Isuru Udana: Bought by RCB at his base price of Rs 50 lakh
Tom Curran: Bought by RR at his base price of Rs 1 cr
Nikhil Nayak: Bought by KKR at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Shahbaz Ahmad: Bought by RCB at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Lalit Yadav: Bought by DC at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Mohsin Khan: Bought by MI at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Mohit Sharma: Bought by DC at his base price of Rs 50 lakh
Pavan Deshpande: Bought by RCB at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Prabhsimran Singh: Bought by KXIP for RS 55 lakh
Tushar Deshpande: Bought by DC at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
R Sai Kishore: Bought by CSK at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Marcus Stoinis: Bought by DC for Rs 4.80 cr
Chris Green: Bought by KKR Rs 20 lakh
Joshua Philippe: Bought by RCB at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Tom Banton: Bought by KKR at his base price of Rs 1 cr
Fabian Allen: Bought by SRH at his base price of Rs 50 lakh
Chris Jordan: Bought by KXIP for Rs 3 cr
Kane Richardson: Bought by RCB for Rs 4 cr
Oshane Thomas: Bought by RR at his base price of Rs 50 lakh
Pravin Tambe: Bought by KKR at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Tajinder Dhillon: Bought by KXIP at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Abdul Samad: Bought by SRH at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Anirudha Joshi: Bought by RR at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Digvijay Deshmukh: Bought by MI at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Prince Balwant Rai Singh: Bought by MI at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Sanjay Yadav: Bought by SRH at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Sandeep Bhavanaka: Bought by SRH at his base price of Rs 20 lakh
Rahul Tripathi (uncapped): Bought by KKR for Rs 60 lakh
Virat Singh (uncapped): Bought by SRH for Rs 1.9 cr
Priyam Garg (uncapped): Bought by SRH for Rs 1.9 cr
Deepak Hooda (uncapped): Bought by KXIP for Rs 50 lakh
Varun Chakravarthy (uncapped): Bought by KKR for Rs 4 cr
Yashasvi Jaiswal (uncapped): Bought by RR for Rs 2.4 cr
Anuj Rawat (uncapped): Bought by RR for Rs 80 lakh
Akash Singh (uncapped): Bought by RR at the base price of Rs 20 lakh
Kartik Tyagi (uncapped): Bought by RR for Rs 1.3 cr
Ishan Porel (uncapped): Bought by KXIP at the base price of Rs 20 lakh
M Siddharth (uncapped): Bought by KKR at the base price of Rs 20 lakh
Ravi Bishnoi (uncapped): Bought by KXIP for Rs 2 cr
Pat Cummins: Most expensive so far: Bought by KKR for Rs 15.5 cr
Glenn Maxwell: Bought by KXIP for Rs 10.75 cr
Aaron Finch: Bought by RCB for Rs 4.4 cr
Jason Roy: Bought by DC at base price of Rs 1.5 cr
Eoin Morgan: Bought by KKR for Rs 5.25 cr
Chris Lynn: Bought by MI at base price of Rs 2 cr
Sam Curran: Bought by CSK for Rs 5.5 cr
Chris Morris: Bought by RCB for Rs 10 cr
Robin Uthappa: Bought by RR for Rs 3 cr
Chris Woakes: Bought by DC at base price of Rs 1.5 cr
Alex Carey: Bought by DC for Rs 2.4 cr
Jaydev Unadkat: Bought by RR for Rs 3 cr
Nathan Coulter-Nile: Bought by MI for Rs 8 cr
Sheldon Cottrell: Bought by KXIP for Rs 8.5 cr
Piyush Chawla: Bought by CSK for Rs 6.75 cr
