IPL 2015 auction concludes: 67 players sold including 23 overseas players.

S V Trivedi goes to Rajasthan Royals for Rs. 10 lakh.

Akash Bhandari with base price of Rs. 10 lakh, remains unsold.

Eklavya Dwivedi had bidders in Chennai Super Kings and take him for base price of Rs. 10 lakh.

Mumbai Indians take Aiden Blizzard for base price of Rs. 30 lakh

Nathan Reardon, base price Rs. 50 lakh. Unsold.

Rajasthan Royals have bid Juan Theron for his base price Rs 30 lakh.

Kumar Sangakkara base price Rs. 100 lakh goes unsold for the third time.

K Waingankar, Poonam Poonia, Joel Paris (Rs 30 lakh). Unsold

B Singh Saran goes to Rajasthan Royals for Rs. 10 lakh

KK Jiyaz sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs. 10 lakh

Also unsold: P Parmeswaran, Vikas Tokas, Yuvraj Chudasama, Gurvinder Singh, Rajwinder Singh, PG Dake, Samad Fallah, Pankaj Jaswal, Jaskaran Singh, Ishwar Chaudhary unsold.

Aniket Choudhary and Umar Nazair not sold at base price of Rs. 10 lakh.

Andrew Tye goes to Chennai Super Kings on opening bid of Rs. 20 lakh.

Pacer Amit Mishra and Pradeep Sangwan remain unsold.

Uncapped fast bowlers : Siddarth Kaul goes to Sun Risers Hyderabad at base price of Rs. 10 lakh.

Munaf Patel, Nuwan Kulasekara . Base price Rs. 50 lakh. Unsold

Mumbai Indians takes away Abhimanyu Mithun for base price Rs. 30 lakh.

Zaheer Khan will don the Delhi Daredevils colours for Rs. 400 lakh.

Fast bowlers up now: Mumbai Indians and Delhi Daredevils bidding for Zaheer Khan . Base price Rs. 100 lakh.

Pratyush Singh goes to Chennai Super Kings for Rs. 10 lakh.

Yogesh Gowalkar sold to Kings XI Punjab at Rs. 10 lakh.

Also unsold: Krunal Pandya (Rs 10 lakh), Raiphi Gomez, Ankit Khushwah, Ankit Shastri, S Trivedi, Vinay Choudary, Avinash Yadav

Varun Sood and Paul Valthaty. Base price Rs 10 lakh. Unsold

Hardik Pandya goes to Mumbai Indians at opening bid of Rs. 10 lakh.

No bids for Kshitiz Sharma and B Indrajith at Rs. 10 lakh.

Dinesh Salunkhe goes to Rajasthan Royals for base price of Rs. 10 lakh. S Purkaystha remains unsold.

Sun Risers Hyderabad take P Padmanabham for base price of Rs. 10 lakh.

J Suchith goes to Mumbai Indian for opening bid of Rs. 10 lakh. Rohit Dahiya goes unsold (base price of Rs 10 lakh).

Marcus Stoinis goes to Delhi Daredevils for Rs. 25 lakh after initial bid from Chennai Super Kings.

No takers for Gurinder Singh at base price of Rs. 10 lakh.

Vaibhav Rawal goes to Kolkata Knight Riders for base price of Rs. 10 lakh.

Harpreet Singh, Akash Bhandari and Suneel Raju remain unsold for base price of Rs. 10 lakh.

Pradeep Sahu gets an opening bid from Rajasthan Royals and he goes to them for Rs. 10 lakh.

Nitish Rana and Siddhesh Lad go to Mumbai Indians for his base price of Rs 10 lakh

Unsold all-rounders: Azhar Mahmood's base price is Rs. 50 lakh. Robin Peterson (Rs 100 lakh), Ashok Menaria (Rs 10 lakh), Shrikant Mundhe (Rs 10 lakh), Rush Kalaria

Albie Morkel (Rs. 30 lakh) goes to Delhi Daredevils at first bid.

All-rounders up now for auction now: Irfan Pathan , base price of Rs. 150 lakh, goes to Chennai Super Kings at first bid.

Delhi Daredevils get Kona Srikar Bharat for base price of Rs. 10 lakh.

Praful Waghela goes unsold.

Travis Head goes to Delhi Daredevils for base price of Rs. 30 lakh.

Shishir Bhavane goes to Royal Challengers on opening bid of Rs. 10 lakh.

Also unsold: Akhil Herwadkar (Rs 10 lakh), Prashant Naik (Rs 10 lakh), Sujit Nayak (Rs 10 lakh), Prashant Chopra (Rs 10 lakh), Nikhil Gangta (Rs 10 lakh), Craig Simmons (Rs 20 lakh), Arjit Gupta, Robin Bist

New uncapped players now: Taruwar Kohli (Rs 10 lakh), Eklavya Dwivedi (10 lakh), Ankeet Bawane (Rs 10 lakh) remain unsold.

Smit Patel (Rs 10 lakh), Manpreet Juneja (Rs 10 lakh), Michael Klinger (Rs 30 lakh) go unsold.

Chennai Super Kings get Ankush Bains for Rs. 10 lakh.

T Suman gets no bids at Rs. 10 lakh.

Sheldon Jackson goes to Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs. 50 lakh.

Unsold wicket-keepers: Luke Ronchi (Rs 30 lakh), Aiden Blizzard (Rs. 30 lakh)

Also unsold: Michael Carberry (Rs. 50 lakh), Alex Hales (Rs. 100 lakh), Brad Hodge (Rs. 100 lakh), Ross Taylor (Rs 100 lakh)

Kumar Sangakkara is unsold again.

Post lunch session resumes: The selected unsold players to go on sale again.

Morning session comes to a close. Of the 156 players auctioned, 39 have been bought.

Unsold: Rahil Shah (Rs 10 lakh), Bhargav Bhatt (Rs 10 lakh), Shadab Jakati (Rs 20 lakh).

KC Cariappa , 24-year old leggie from Karnataka goes to KKR for Rs 2.4 crore

Akshay Wakhari sold to Mumbai Indians for base price of Rs 10 lakh.

Uncapped spinners : Sarabjeet Ladda, Mihir Hirwani, Ali Murtaza. Unsold.

Pradeep Sangwan (Rs 20 lakh) and Siddarth Kaul (Rs 10 lakh) also unsold.

Rahul Shukla and Amit Mishra (pacer). (Base price Rs 10 lakh) unsold

Delhi Daredevils get Domnic Muthuswamy for Rs 75 lakh.

Fast bowlers K Upadhyay and S Aravind are unsold.

Jalaj Saxena goes to Royal Challengers for his base price of Rs 10 lakh.

Aditya Garhwal with base price of Rs 10 lakh goes to Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs. 25 lakh and Sumit Narwal for Rs 10 lakh.

Unsold all-rounders: Ramdayal Punia (Rs 10 lakh), Kevon Cooper, Ashok Menaria, Robbie Frylink (Rs 10 lakh), Kevin O'Brien (Rs 30 lakh), Andrew Tye

Uncapped all-rounders now: Jesal Karia Base price Rs. 10 lakh. Unsold.

Also unsold: Smit Patel (Rs. 10 lakh), Sushant Marathe (Rs. 30 lakh).

At mid-way funds remaning with team

CSK Rs. 2.70 Cr.

Delhi Daredevils Rs. 9.95 Cr

Kings XI Punjab Rs. 9.60 Cr.

KKR Rs. 12.20 Cr

Mumbai Indians Rs. 6 Cr.

Rajasthan Royals Rs. 11.35 Cr.

RCB Rs. 2.70 Cr.

Sunrisers Hyderabad Rs. 9.65 Cr.

Nikhil Naik goes to Kings XI Punjab for Rs. 30 lakh.

CM Gautam goes to Delhi Daredevils for base price of Rs. 20 lakh.

Unsold uncapped wicketkeepers: Davy Jacobs (Rs. 10 lakh), Shreevats Goswami (Rs. 30 lakh), KB Arun Karthik (Rs. 10 lakh), Amit Paunikar (Rs. 20 lakh), Ankush Bains (Rs. 10 lakh)

Next set is uncapped wicketkeepers . Ben Dunk up at base price of Rs. 30 lakh. Unsold.

The 17-year-old Sarfraz Khan is sold to Royal Challengers for Rs. 50 lakh.

Unsold uncapped batsmen: Mohnish Mishra (Rs. 10 lakh), Sheldon Jackson (Rs. 10 lakh), Tirumalasetti Suman (Rs. 10 lakh), Debabrata Das (Rs. 20 lakh), Aiden Blizzard (Rs. 30 lakh), Yogesh Nagar (Rs. 10 lakh), Paras Dogra (Rs. 10 lakh),

Hanuma Vihari bought by Sunrisers at base price of Rs 10 lakh.

Shreyas Iyer will play for Delhi Daredevils for Rs 2.6 crore. After initial bidding by KKR and Mumbai Indians, Delhi came in between tried to out bid and finally he was sold for Rs 2.60 crore.

Uncapped players auction: Shreyar Iyer up now for auction. Base price Rs. 10 lakh. KKR and MI start.

The bidding for Shreyas Iyer has crossed Rs. 100 lakh. DD have joined in the bidding for Shreyas Iyer.

More players unsold : Christopher Barnwell (Rs 30 lakh), Justin Ontong (Rs 50 lakh), Elton Chigumbura (Rs 30 lakh).

Also unsold : Vaughn van Jaarsveld (Rs 30 lakh). Roelof van der Merwe (Rs 30 lakh)

Carlos Brathwaite . Base price Rs 30 lakh. No takers.

Seekkuge Prasanna . Base price Rs 30 lakh. Unsold.

Ashton Agar goes first under the hammer for Rs 50 lakh base price. Unsold.

Last set of capped players - all rounders.

More unsold players: Shaun Tait (Rs 50 lakh), Sudeep Tyagi (Rs 30 lakh), Suranga Lakmal (Rs 50 lakh), Lonwabo Tsotsobe (Rs 30 lakh), Krishmar Santokie (Rs 30 lakh), Dhammika Prasad (Rs 50 lakh), Peter Siddle (Rs 50 lakh), Hamish Bennett (base price Rs 30 lakh), Nuwan Kulasekara's base price Rs 50 lakh, Dirk Nannes, Shaun Tait.

Next set is fast bowlers-3 . First name out of the bag is Thilan Thushara. base price Rs 30 lakh. Unsold.

Maharoof, Behardien, Joginder Sharma, Jonathan Carter, Nathan Reardon, Dough Bracewell also go unsold.

More allrounders. Suraj Randiv (base price of Rs 30 lakh) unsold

Laxmipathy Balaji (base price Rs 50 lakh). Also, unsold.

Ben Laughlin (Rs 30 lakh), RP Singh (base price Rs 30 lakh). Unsold.

That concludes fast bowlers set 2.

Ravi Rampaul (base price Rs 50 lakh) goes unsold. Doug Bollinger (Rs 1 crore) also unsold.

Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Daredevils vie for Gurinder Sandhu (base price at Rs 30 lakh). And, G Sandhu goes to DelhiDaredevils for Rs 1.7 crore.

CSK get Kyle Abbott for Rs 30 lakh

Mitchell McClenaghan goes to Mumbai Indians for Rs 30 lakh.

No bidder for Sheldon Cottrell and Juan Theron

Azhar Mahmood, David Hussey and Robin Peterson also go unsold

More unsold : Sachithra Senanayaka, Johan Botha, South African allrounder Albie Morkel, Jeevan Mendis, Nathan McCullum

David Wiese of South Africa goes to RCB for Rs 2.8 crore after intense bidding between RCB and Delhi Daredevils.

Now, players of set number nine to go under hammer

No bidder for Australia's Callum Ferguson

Lahiru Thirimanna and Abhinav Mukund go unsold

Darren Bravo, Venugopal Rao, Richard Levi, Hamish Rutherford and Dean Elgar find no bidder

Second set of batsmen up for grab now

Brad Hogg goes to KKR for Rs 50 lakh

Michael Beer, Ajantha Mendis, Akila Dananjaya and Cameron Boyce unsold

Nathan Lyon unsold

Spin bowlers:Pragyan Ojha sold to Mumbai Indians for Rs 50 lakh; Rahul Sharma sold to CSK for Rs 30 lakh

Adam Milne sold to RCB at Rs 70 lakh

Ben Hilfenhaus goes unsold

Sean Abbott goes to Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 1 crore

Munaf Patle also unsold

Zaheer Khan (Rs 1 crore) and Abhimanu Mithun (Rs 50 lakh) unsold.

Jayadev Unadkat sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 1.10 crore.

Sunrisers Hyderabad buy NewZealander Trent Boult for Rs 3.8 crore

Pankaj Singh goes unsold

Praveen Kumar to play for Sunrisers Hyderabad after being bought for Rs 2.2 crore

Pacers to go under the hammer now

Laxmi Ratan Shukla goes to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 30 lakh

Wayne Parnell goes unsold

RCB get Darren Sammy for Rs 2.8 crore

Chris Morris goes to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 1.4 crore

Irfan Pathan has no takers.

Sunrisers Hyderabad buy Ravi Bopara for Rs 1 crore

Tillakaratne Dilshan also fails to find a bidder

Marlon Samuels has no takers

James Neesham goes to Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 50 lakh

Next, Allrounders group : James Neesham, Marlon Samuels.

Wicketkeepers list : Morne van Wyk (Rs 30 lakh) , Kusal Perera (Rs 30 lakh), and Denesh Ramdin (Rs 50 lakh) go unsold

Brendan Taylore (Rs 30 lakh), Zimbabwean wicket-keeper batsman, gets no bids.

No bidders for New Zealander Luke Ronchi (base price Rs 30 lakh)

Australia's Cameron White (Rs 1.5 cr), C Pujara (Rs 1 cr), Michael Carberry (Rs 50 lakh) too go unsold

Michael Hussey sold to Chennai SuperKings for base price of Rs 1.5 crore

Subramaniam Badrinath sold to RCB for base price of Rs 30 lakh

New Zealand's Ross Taylor and England's Alex Hales also unsold

Australian cricketer Brad Hodge goes unsold

Yuvraj Singh priced Rs 16 crore has set the IPL auction floor on fire.

England's Eoin Morgan base price Rs 1.50 crore. Bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 1.5 crore.

Aaron Finch base price Rs 1 crore. Frenzied bidding by Mumbai Indians and Delhi Daredevils. Sold to Mumbai Indians for Rs 3.20 crore.

Amit Mishra base price Rs 1 crore. After heavy bidding by Rajasthan Royals, Sunrisers, Mumbai Indians and Delhi Daredevils, sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 3.5 crore.

Dinesh Karthik base price Rs 2 crore. After heavy bidding by RCB, Delhi Daredevils and Sunrisers Hyderabad, sold to RCB for Rs 10.50 crore.

Kevin Pietersen base price Rs 2 crore. Sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 2 crore.

M Jayawardene unsold at Rs 1 crore

Kumar Sangakkara goes unsold. Base price Rs 1 crore.

Yuvraj Singh base price Rs 2 crore. After hectic bids sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 16 crore. Heavy bidding by Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Daredevils.

Sri Lankan all-rounder Angelo Mathews' base price Rs 1.5 crore. RCB, Mumbai Indians and Delhi Daredevils vie for him. Finally, sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 7.50 crore

Kane Williamson goes to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 60 lakh.

Kane Williamson goes under the hammer.

Murali Vijay becomes first player to be sold in IPL 8 auction. Kings XI Punjab buys him for Rs 3 crore after hectic bidding and counter bidding by RCB.

South African Hashim Amla (base price Rs 2 crore) goes unsold as auction gets under way.

751 players are registered for auctions. 350 players will be available for auction today. Unsold players will be made available for replacement.

The Pepsi IPL 2015 Player Auction gets under way in Bangalore today.

Overview :

The bidding process will serve as the prelude to the year’s most anticipated sporting extravaganza, the Pepsi IPL 2015 which will get under way on April 8.

Ahead of the auction, a total of 122 cricketers including 78 Indians and 44 overseas players have been retained by the franchises for the 2015 season, while six Indian cricketers have been traded during the window for player trade this year.

One of the biggest names to hit the auction table this year is 2014’s most expensive player Yuvraj Singh, who was bought for Rs 14 crore at the event last year.

The auction will be conducted by Richard Madley, a professional auctioneer from England who has been conducting the player auctions since the inaugural season in 2008.

This year, the franchises have a salary purse of Rs 63 crore each for the eighth season — a 5 per cent increase over last season’s purse.

Related Topics
comment COMMENT NOW