The IPL 2021 auction concluded with some very big surprises as the franchises emptied their purses and filled their squads with first-choice players and backups.
Chris Morris made history by becoming the most expensive player ever in IPL history after he bagged an INR 16.25 Cr bid by Rajasthan Royals (RR). Young gun New Zealand’s Kyle Jamieson earned a 15 Cr bid from Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), while K Gowtham was the most expensive Indian player bought in the auction at a 9.25 Cr bid from Chennai Super Kings, who also got Moeen Ali for Rs 7 cr.
Let’s take a look at the final and full squads of each eight franchises after the IPL 2021 auction:
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) complete squad for IPL 2021:
David Warner (C), Jonny Bairstow (WK), Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Shreevats Goswami (WK), Wriddhiman Saha (WK), Virat Singh, Priyam Garg, Mohammad Nabi, Vijay Shankar, Kedar Jadhav, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Abdul Samad, Rashid Khan, Abhishek Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Siddarth Kaul, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma, Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jagadeesha Suchith
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Delhi Capitals (DC) complete squad for IPL 2021:
Shreyas Iyer (C), Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant (WK), Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Chris Woakes, R Ashwin, Akshar Patel, Amit Mishra, Lalit Yadav, Pravin Dubey, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Avesh Khan, Steve Smith, Umesh Yadav, Ripal Patel, Vishnu Vinod, Lukman Meriwala, M Siddarth, Tom Curran, Sam Billings (WK)
Punjab Kings (PBKS) complete squad for IPL 2021:
KL Rahul (C, WK), Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Mandeep Singh, Nicholas Pooran (WK), Ishan Porel, Sarfaraz Khan, Murugan Ashwin, Deepak Hooda, Mohammed Shami, Chris Jordan, Ravi Bishnoi, Harpreet Brar, Prabhsimran Singh (WK), Darshan Nalkande, Arshdeep Singh, Dawid Malan, Jhye Richardson, Shahrukh Khan, Riley Meredith, Moises Henriques, Jalaj Saxena, Utkarsh Singh, Fabian Allen, Saurabh Kumar
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) complete squad for IPL 2021:
Virat Kohli (c), Devdutt Padikkal, Josh Philippe (WK), AB de Villiers (WK), Pavan Deshpande, Washington Sundar, Daniel Sams, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Kane Richardson, Harshal Patel, Glenn Maxwell, Sachin Baby, Rajat Patidar, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Kyle Jamieson, Daniel Christian, Suyash Prabhudessai, K.S. Bharat
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Mumbai Indians (MI) complete squad for IPL 2021:
Rohit Sharma (C), Quinton de Kock (WK), Ishan Kishan (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Chris Lynn, Saurabh Tiwary, Anmolpreet Singh, Aditya Tare (WK), Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan, Adam Milne, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Piyush Chawla, James Neesham, Yudhvir Charak, Marco Jansen, Arjun Tendulkar
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) complete squad for IPL 2021:
Faf du Plessis, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, N. Jagadeesan (WK), Robin Uthappa, MS Dhoni (C, WK), Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo, Karn Sharma, R. Sai Kishore, Mitchell Santner, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Lungi Ngidi, Josh Hazlewood, KM Asif, Moeen Ali, K Gowtham, Cheteshwar Pujara, M Harisankar Reddy, K. Bhagath Varma, C Hari Nishanth
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Rajasthan Royals (RR) complete squad for IPL 2021:
Sanju Samson (C, WK), Jos Buttler (WK), Ben Stokes, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Manan Vohra, Anuj Rawat, Riyan Parag, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror, Shreyas Gopal, Mayank Markande, Jofra Archer, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Kartik Tyagi, Shivam Dube, Chris Morris, Mustafizur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya, KC Cariappa, Liam Livingstone, Kuldip Yadav, Akash Singh
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) complete squad for IPL 2021:
Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Tim Seifert (WK), Rahul Tripathi, Rinku Singh, Dinesh Karthik (WK), Eoin Morgan (c), Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun CV, Kuldeep Yadav, Pat Cummins, Lockie Ferguson, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Sandeep Warrier, Prasidh Krishna, Shakib Al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson (WK), Vaibhav Arora, Karun Nair, Harbhajan Singh, Ben Cutting, Venkatesh Iyer, Pawan Negi
