The IPL 2023 auction came to an end after a hectic day of bidding wars. A total of 80 players were sold and Sam Curran of England was the most expensive player bought at INR 18.50 crores, setting the record for the most expensive player ever and most expensive overseas buy ever.
There were some players who got their maiden IPL deal like Joe Root, Litton Das, Joshua Little, Reece Topley, Phil Salt, Will Jacks, and Sikandar Raza amongst others.
Australia all-rounder Cameron Green lived upto the hype ahead of the IPL 2023 auction as he bagged a bid of INR 17.50 crores from Mumbai Indians. Ben Stokes’ return to the IPL fold saw him reuniting with MS Dhoni, this time in CSK after they got him for INR 16.25 crores, their most expensive buy ever.
Nicholas Pooran continued his golden run of huge money bids as he joined LSG for INR 16 crores, while rookie Harry Brook managed to get a successful bid of INR 13.25 crore from Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Here is a look at how the final squads of all teams look post the IPL 2023 Auction:
Chennai Super Kings:
MS Dhoni (C), Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Subhranshu Senapati, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Moeen Ali, K Bhagath Varma, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Shivam Dube, Deepak Chahar, Maheesh Theekshana, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, Simarjeet Singh, Ajinkya Rahane, Tushar Deshpande, Ben Stokes, Matheesha Pathirana, Shaik Rasheed, Nishant Sindhu, Kyle Jamieson, Ajay Mandal
Delhi Capitals:
Rishabh Pant (C), David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Rovman Powell, Akshar Patel, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Lalit Yadav, Mitchell Marsh, Pravin Dubey, Ripal Patel, Sarfaraz Khan, Vicky Ostwal, Yash Dhull, Aman Khan, Anrich Nortje, Chetan Sakariya, Kuldeep Yadav, Lungi Ngidi, Mustafizur Rahman, Khaleel Ahmed, Phil Salt, Ishant Sharma, Manish Pandey, Mukesh Kumar, Rilee Rossouw
Gujarat Titans:
Hardik Pandya (C), Abhinav Manohar, David Miller, Shubman Gill, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, B Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, Jayant Yadav, Pradeep Sangwan, Rahul Tewatia, Shivam Mavi, Vijay Shankar, Alzarri Joseph, Mohammad Shami, Noor Ahmad, Sai Kishore, Rashid Khan, Yash Dayal, Kane Williamson, Joshua Little, Odean Smith, Urvil Patel, KS Bharat, Mohit Sharma
Kolkata Knight Riders:
Shreyas Iyer (C), Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, David Wiese, Kulwant Khejroliya, Suyash Sharma, Nitish Rana, Anukul Roy, Lockie Ferguson, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Umesh Yadav, Harshit Rana, Tim Southee, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, N Jagadeesan, Shakib Al Hasan, Litton Das, Mandeep Singh
Lucknow Super Giants:
KL Rahul (C), Manan Vohra, Quinton de Kock, Ayush Badoni, Deepak Hooda, Krishnappa Gowtham, Karan Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Avesh Khan, Mark Wood, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Jaydev Unadkat, Nicholas Pooran, Yash Thakur, Romario Shepherd, Amit Mishra, Swapnil Singh, Prerak Mankad, Yudhvir Charak, Naveen ul Haq, Daniel Sams
Mumbai Indians:
Rohit Sharma (C), Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Arjun Tendulkar, Hrithik Shokeen, Jofra Archer, Arshad Khan, Tilak Varma, Ramandeep Singh, Tim David, Jasprit Bumrah, Jason Behrendorff, Raghav Goyal, Vishnu Vinod, Cameron Green, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Tristan Stubbs, Duan Jansen, Piyush Chawla, Jhye Richardson, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Kartikeya
Punjab Kings:
Shikhar Dhawan (C), Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jitesh Sharma, Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Atharva Taide, Harpreet Brar, Liam Livingstone, Raj Angad Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Shahrukh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Baltej Dhanda, Kagiso Rabada, Nathan Ellis, Rahul Chahar, Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa, Mohit Rathee, Shivam Singh
Rajasthan Royals:
Sanju Samson (C), Devdutt Padikkal, Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, R Ashwin, Riyan Parag, KC Cariappa, Kuldeep Sen, Kuldip Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Obed McCoy, Prasidh Krishna, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Joe Root, Adam Zampa, KM Asif, Murugan Ashwin, Kunal Rathore, Jason Holder, Donovan Ferreira, Akash Vashisht, Abdul PA
Royal Challengers Bangalore:
Faf du Plessis (C), Finn Allen, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, David Willey, Glenn Maxwell, Harshal Patel, Mahipal Lomror, Shahbaz Ahamad, Suyash S Prabhudessai, Wanindu Hasaranga, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, Karn Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, Mohammed Siraj, Reece Topley, Will Jacks, Manoj Bhandage, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Sonu Yadav, Himanshu Sharma
Sunrisers Hyderabad:
Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kartik Tyagi, T Natarajan, Umran Malik, Harry Brook, Mayank Agarwal, Heinrich Klaasen, Adil Rashid, Mayank Markande, Vivrant Sharma, Samarth Vyas, Sanvir Singh, Upendra Yadav, Mayank Dagar, Akeal Hosein, Anmolpreet Singh, Nitish Kumar Reddy
