The IPL auction for the 2018 edition took place on January 27 and 28 in Bengaluru.
After two exciting days of IPL 2018 auction, things have finally cleared out for each and every franchise for the upcoming season of IPL in 2018.
Every team came in with atleast one player retained in pre-auction and accordingly they had the amount in the purse. Ben Stokes proved to be the most expensive player in the IPL 2018 going at 12.50 cr to Rajasthan Royals and Jaydev Unadkat was the most expensive Indian player, going at 11.50 cr to Rajasthan Royals.
KL Rahul and Manish Pandey both fetched 11 cr at the auctions, going to KXIP and SRH respectively.
Here is the complete list of squads of each team for IPL 2018:
Rajasthan Royals:
Steve Smith (AUS), Stuart Binny, Ben Stokes (ENG), Ajinkya Rahane, Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler (ENG), Rahul Tripathi, D’Arcy Short (AUS), Jofra Archer (WI), Gowtham Krishnappa, Dhawal Kulkarni, Jaydev Unadkat, Ankit Sharma, Anureet Singh, Zahir Khan Pakteen (AFG), Shreyas Gopal, MS Midhun, Prashant Chopra, Ben Laughlin (AUS), Mahipal Lomror, Jatin Saxena, Aryaman Vikram Birla, Dushmanta Chameera (SL)
Kings XI Punjab:
Akshar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Chris Gayle (WI), Karun Nair, KL Rahul, David Miller (SA), Aaron Finch (AUS), Yuvraj Singh, Marcus Stoinis (AUS), Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, Manoj Tiwary, Mohit Sharma, Mujeeb Zadran (AFG), Barinder Sran, Andrew Tye (AUS), Akshdeep Nath, Ben Dwarshuis (AUS), Mayank Dagar, Pradeep Sahu, Manzoor Dar
Chennai Super Kings:
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Suresh Raina, Sam Billings (ENG), Murali Vijay, Faf du Plessis (SA), Harbhajan Singh, Dwayne Bravo (WI), Shane Watson (AUS), Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayadu, Imran Tahir (SA), Karn Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Jagadeesan Narayan, Mitchell Santner (NZ), Deepak Chahar, Asif KM, Lungi Ngidi (SA), Dhruv Shorey, Mark Wood (ENG), Kshitiz Sharma, Monu Singh, Chaitanya Bishnoi
Mumbai Indians:
Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard (WI), Aditya Tare, Mustafizur Rahman (BAN), Pat Cummins (AUS), Suryakumar Yadav, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Rahul Chahar, Evin Lewis (WI), Saurabh Tiwary, Ben Cutting (AUS), Pradeep Sangwan, JP Duminy (SA), Jason Behrendorff (AUS), Tajinder Dhillon, Sharad Lumba, Siddhesh Lad, Mayank Markande, Akila Dananjaya (SL), Anukul Roy, Mohsin Khan, Nidheesh MD Dineshan
Sunrisers Hyderabad:
Bhuvneshwar Kumar, David Warner (AUS), Shikhar Dhawan, Shakib Al Hasan (BAN), Kane Williamson (NZ), Manish Pandey, Carlos Braithwaite (WI), Yusuf Pathan, Wriddhiman Saha, Rashid Khan (AFG), Ricky Bhui, Deepak Hooda, Siddharth Kaul, T Natarajan, Basil Thampi, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Mohammed Nabi (AFG), Sandeep Sharma, Sachin Baby, Billy Stanlake (AUS), Tanmay Agarwal, Chris Jordan (ENG), Shreevats Goswami, Bipul Sharma, Mehdi Hasan
Delhi Daredevils:
Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Chris Morris (SA), Naman Ojha, Glenn Maxwell (AUS), Gautam Gambhir (C), Jason Roy (ENG), Colin Munro (NZ), Mohammed Shami, Kagiso Rabada (SA), Amit Mishra, Prithvi Shaw, Rahul Tewatia, Vijay ShankaR, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Daniel Christian (AUS), Jayant Yadav, Gurkeerat Singh, Trent Boult (NZ), Manjot Kalra, Abhishek Sharma, Sandeep Lamichhane (NEP), Sayan Ghosh
Kolkata Knight Riders:
Andre Russell (WI),Sunil Narine (WI), Mitchell Starc (AUS), Chris Lynn (AUS), Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Shubman Gill, Ishank JaggI, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Nitish Rana, Vinay Kumar, Apoorv Wankhade, Rinku Singh, Shivam Mavi, Cameron Delport (SA), Mitchell Johnson (AUS), Javon Searless (WI)
Royal Challengers Bangalore:
Virat Kohli, AB de VillierS (SA), Sarfaraz Khan, Tim Southee (NZ),Parthiv PateL, Brendon McCullum (NZ),Chris Woakes (ENG), Colin de Grandhomme (NZ), Moeen Ali (ENG),Quinton de Kock (SA),Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Manan Vohra, Kulwant Khejroliya, Aniket Choudhary, Navdeep Saini, Murugan Ashwin, Mandeep Singh, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Mohammed Siraj, Nathan Coulter-Nile (AUS),Anirudha Joshi, Pavan Deshpande