Most Expensive Players of IPL 2023 | Highest-Paid Player in IPL 2023

Most of the IPL franchises reconstructed their team for IPL 2023 championship. In this post we will discuss Vivo IPL 2023 Most Expensive Players, the Highest Price Paid Players List.beside this we will also discuss the Most Expensive Foreign Players and Indian Players for  IPL 2023.

As per the list of the most expensive players in the IPL 2023 mega auction, India’s wicket-keeper batsman Ishan Kishan holds the top position. As a result, Kishan has now become the second most-paid Indian player in the history of the Indian Premier League auctions, following former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh.

Most Expensive Players in IPL 2023 Mega Auction

Following are the list of most expensive players in IPL 2023 mega auction:

Top Highest Price Foreign Players in  IPL Season 15

The 10 teams of IPL going to fill up 73 spots at auction from which 27 are spare for foreign players. In this IPL auction, the overseas star players filed up the list of top highest price foreign players. The previously most expensive overseas player record which was held by Ben Stokes is now broken.

During the IPL 2023 auction in Bengaluru, there are up to eight players from India who are among the 10 most expensive purchases. At this year’s mega auction, 204 players were sold and Rs 551.70 crore was spent over two days. Some of the biggest bids went to the local heroes.

The price tag of INR 11.5 Crores for Liam Livingstone of England ranks among the most expensive overseas players in the IPL 2023 auction. Punjab Kings won the bidding auction against all the remaining teams and were able to secure him for the two-day mega-event.

Liam Livingstone, England’s biggest player at the IPL auction in 2023, is the only overseas player in the top five most expensive buys. Punjab King’s bought him for a reported $11.50 million. Interestingly, Livingstone was picked up by Rajasthan Royals in the IPL 2023 auction for a sum of Rs 75 lakh.

All-rounder Shardul Thakur finished in the top five, selling to the Delhi Capitals for Rs 10.75 crore.

Meanwhile, the auction this year saw the purchase of three of the most expensive uncapped Indian players in IPL history.

Lucknow Super Giants bought fast bowler Avesh Khan for a whopping sum of Rs 10 crore. He is not far away from making his India debut. He is the most expensive uncapped player ever.

Punjab Kings have bought Shahrukh Khan back from Tamil Nadu for a sum of Rs 9 crore, the big-hitter for Tamil Nadu.

In the meantime, Gujarat Titans paid Rs 9 crore for all-rounder Rahul Tewatia.

Here is the overall list of  top 10 most expensive players bought at IPL 2023 auction

Most Expensive Overseas Players in IPL 2023 Auction

Check the full list of the most expensive Overseas Players in the IPL 2023 auction.

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IPL 2023 overseas players list of Retained and Auctioned

Chennai Super Kings Retained and Bought in Auction Players

Retained players: Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni, Moeen Ali and Ruturaj Gaikwad

Players bought at Auction: Robin Uthappa, Dwayne Bravo, Ambati Rayudu, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Maheesh Theekshana, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Simarjeet Singh, Devon Conway, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Adam Milne, Subhranshu Senapati, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, C Hari Nishaanth, N Jagadeesan, Chris Jordan, K Bhagath Varma

Delhi Capitals Retained and Bought in Auction Players

Retained players: Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel, Prithvi Shaw and Anrich Nortje

Players bought at Auction: David Warner, Mitch Marsh, Shardul Thakur, Mustafizur Rahman, Kuldeep Yadav, Ashwin Hebbar, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, KS Bharat, Sarfaraz Khan, Mandeep Singh, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Chetan Sakariya, Lalit Yadav, Ripal Patel, Yash Dhull, Rovman Powell, Pravin Dubey, Lungisani Ngidi, Tim Seifert, Vicky Ostwal

Kings XI Punjab Retained and Bought in Auction Players

Retained players: Mayank Agarwal and Arshdeep Singh

Players bought at Auction: Shikhar Dhawan, Kagiso Rabada, Jonny Bairstow, Rahul Chahar, Shahrukh Khan, Harpreet Brar, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Ishan Porel, Liam Livingstone, Odean Smith, Sandeep Sharma, Raj Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Prerak Mankad, Vaibhav Arora, Writtick Chatterjee, Baltej Dhanda, Ansh Patel, Nathan Ellis, Atharva Taide, Bhanuka Rajapakse, Benny Howell

Kolkata Knight Riders Retained and Bought in Auction Players

Retained players: Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, and Varun Chakravarthy

Players bought at Auction: Pat Cummins, Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Mavi, Sheldon Jackson, Ajinkya Rahane, Rinku Singh, Anukul Roy, Rasikh Dar, Baba Indrajith, Chamika Karunaratne, Abhijeet Tomar, Pratham Singh, Ashok Sharma, Sam Billings, Alex Hales, Tim Southee, Ramesh Kumar, Mohammad Nabi, Umesh Yadav, Aman Khan

Mumbai Indians Retained and Bought in Auction Players

Retained players: Rohit Sharma, Kieron Pollard, Jasprit Bumrah and Suryakumar Yadav

Players bought at Auction: Ishan Kishan, Dewald Brevis, Basil Thampi, Murugan Ashwin, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, N Tilak Varma, Sanjay Yadav, Jofra Archer, Daniel Sams, Tymal Mills, Tim David, Riley Meredith, Mohammad Arshad Khan, Ramandeep Singh, Anmolpreet Singh, Rahul Buddhi, Hrithik Shokeen, Arjun Tendulkar, Aryan Juyal, Fabian Allen

Rajasthan Royals Retained and Bought in Auction Players

Retained players: Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler

Players bought at Auction: R Ashwin, Trent Boult, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal, Riyan Parag, KC Cariappa, Navdeep Saini, Obed McCoy, Anunay Singh, Kuldeep Sen, Karun Nair, Dhruv Jurel, Tejas Baroka, Kuldip Yadav, Shubham Garhwal, James Neesham, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rassie van der Dussen, Daryl Mitchell

Royal Challengers Bangalore Retained and Bought in Auction Players

Retained players: Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell and Mohammed Siraj

Players bought at Auction: Faf du Plessis, Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat, Shahbaz Ahamad, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen, Sherfane Rutherford, Jason Behrendorff, Suyash Prabhudessai, Chama Milind, Aneeshwar Gautam, Karn Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, Luvnith Sisodia, David Willey

Sunrisers Hyderabad Retained and Bought in Auction Players

Retained players: Kane Williamson, Umran Malik and Abdul Samad

Players bought at Auction: Washington Sundar, Nicholas Pooran, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Priyam Garg, Rahul Tripathi, Abhishek Sharma, Kartik Tyagi, Shreyas Gopal, Jagadeesha Suchith, Aiden Markram, Marco Jansen, Romario Shepherd, Sean Abbott, R Samarth, Shashank Singh, Saurabh Dubey, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Glenn Phillips, Vishnu Vinod

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