IPL 2023 Auction: Lucknow Super Giants buy Nicholas Pooran for 8 times of his base price, Heinrich Klaasen goes to SRH

IPL auction for the 2023 season is currently taking place in Kochi.

The highly-anticipated IPL auction for the 2023 season is currently taking place in Kochi. As many as 405 players are going under the hammer for 87 vacant slots as all 10 franchises look to fine-tune their squads for the one final time before the league's 16th edition.

Fierce bidding war happened for the likes of Sam Curran, Cameron Green and Ben Stokes in the set of all-rounders, with all of them fetching over INR 16 crore, shattering all the previous IPL auction records.

In the third set, capped wicketkeepers were up for grabs and West Indies’ Nicholas Pooran hogged the limelight with his hefty price tag.

Here’s how the players fared in the third set:

1. Litton Das (Base Price INR 50 Lakh) – UNSOLD

2. Nicholas Pooran (Base Price INR 2 Crore) – Sold to Lucknow Super Giants for INR 16 Crore

3. Heinrich Klaasen (Base Price INR 1 Crore) – Sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for INR 5.25 Crore

4. Kusal Mendis (Base Price INR 50 Lakh) – UNSOLD

5. Tom Banton (Base Price INR 2 Crore) – UNSOLD

6. Phil Salt (Base Price INR 2 Crore) – Sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 2 Crore