IPL Auction 2024 Highlights: Top newsmakers, big winners & losers
As many as 333 players are under the hammer at the «mini auction» of the 2024 season of the IPL, one of the richest sports leagues globally. There are 77 slots available across the 10 franchises, 30 of them for foreign players.
Gujarat Titans have the fattest purse this time at Rs 38.15 crore.
Lucknow Super Giants' purse is the smallest at Rs 13.15.
Under the rules of the IPL, each franchise can fill in a maximum of eight (four Indians, four foreigners) players. Teams are allowed a maximum squad size of 25; the minimum is 18.
The highest price band is Rs 2 crore, followed by the Rs 1.5 crore, Rs 1 crore, Rs 75 lakh, Rs 50 lakh, Rs 40 lakh, Rs 30 lakh and Rs 20 lakh slabs.
Here are the key highlights and the major hits & misses from today's big show:
- Rajasthan Royals buys Rovman Powell for Rs 7.40 crore. His base price was Rs 1 crore.
- Rilee Rossouw goes unsold
- Harry Brook goes to Delhi Capitals for Rs 4 crore
- Travis Head, whose heroics lit up the 2023 World Cup final, is bagged by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 6.80 crore after a fierce bidding war.
- Australia's Steve Smith goes unsold
- Karun Nair unsold
- Manish Pandey remains unsold
