Lynn trumps Aust teammates in IPL auction

The second tier base price is £166,000 and the third tier base price is £110,000.

The hard hitting Australian was roped in by Mumbai Indians for a sum of $1 million. Sunrisers Hyderabad went after a combination of all-rounders and batsmen.

Delhi Daredevils: 47 crore rupees (£5.2m).

Sanju Samson was the most expensive in the wicketkeepers’ category as he went to Royals for $1.25 million. There are 31 players in the ₹1 crore category, 23 in the ₹75 lakh and 122 in the ₹50 lakh base price bucket.

Jos Buttler (base price Rs 1.50 crore) was sold to RR for Rs 4.40 crore.

RCB, as usual, has a star-studded lineup, with Chris Woakes and Moeen Ali as all-rounders. KKR bought two glovemen in the session – Dinesh Karthik for INR 7.4 crore (USD 1.16m approx) and Robin Uthappa via the RTM for INR 6.4 crore (USD 1m approx). “There are several impressive youngsters”, Ricky Ponting, Delhi Daredevils’ head coach, explained.

In this year’s auctions, players have been clubbed into eight slabs.

There are more than 750 Indian players, capped and uncapped in the auction pool.

The last cricketer of the set, Martin Guptill, went unsold.

Entering the IPL auction for the first time, Root was one of three marquee players not to be purchased, along with West Indies’ Chris Gayle and South Africa’s Hashim Amla.

While England’s Test captain Joe Root remained unsold, Kunal Nair ended up getting sold at Rs 5.6 crore to Kings XI Punjab as Delhi refused to retain him.

After emerging as the costliest foreign player ever at a whopping Rs 14.5 crore last February, Stokes, despite facing charges of affray back home, showed why he’s considered as the most valuable cricketer in the world when Rajasthan Royals bought him for Rs 12.5 crore. KXIP officials were happy with the deal.

Like their other players, KKR didn’t bid for their all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan and gave him up for Rs 2 crore to Sunrisers Hyderabad. Australian bowlers Mitchell Johnson and Josh Hazlewood also ended the day unsold.

Ben Stokes, the costliest player sold previous year for 14.2 crore, is also the costliest player till now with Rs 12.50 crore to Rajasthan Royals (RR). Similarly, another veteran Yuvraj Singh got an opening bid from Kings XI Punjab for Rs 2 crore. Guess what, he made his way to the Kings XI Punjab, it was an eerie moment for all the fans back in Chennai, with Chennai Super Kings bagged Harbhajan Singh in a cross-state transfer. “The IPL plays a big part in our lives”. In addition to the duo, the Sunrisers did some smart business in the form of Shikhar Dhawan and Kane Williamson. Ashwin’s played for CSK and Rising Pune Supergiant previously.