Main points:
• Rajasthan Royals made the two highest bids - Ben Stokes for Rs 12.5cr and Jaydev Unadkat for Rs 11.5cr. At the end of it all, most of the sides will be happy with their squads. The real test will come once the action unfolds on April 7.
• And with that the marathon auction has come to an end
• Javon Searless is sold to KKR for Rs 30 lakh
• Kerala pacer M D Nidheesh goes to Mumbai Indians for Rs 20 lakh
• Kings XI buy Chris Gayle for Rs 2 crore
• Chennai buy Mark Wood for Rs 1.5 crore
• RCB buy pacer Tim Southee for Rs 1 crore
• Mitchell Johnson goes to KKR for Rs 2 crore
• RCB buy Parthiv Patel for Rs 1.7 crore
• Delhi buy Naman Ojha for Rs 1.4 crore
• Martin Guptill remains unsold
• Chennai Super Kings buy Sam Billings and Murali Vijay for Rs 1 crore and 2 crore respectively
• It could well be some 'lungi dance' in Chennai as CSK rope in Lungi Ngidi for Rs 50 lakh
• Nepalese leg-spinner Sandeep Lamichhane goes to DD for Rs 20 lakh. The first player from Nepal to get an IPL contract.
• Chennai Super Kings buy Kerala medium-pacer K M Asif for Rs 40 lakh
• Wicketkeeper Shreevats Goswami gets Rs 1 crore and he will don SRH colors
• Kings XI buy Akshdeep Nath for Rs 1 crore
• Australian medium-pacer Andrew Tye gets Rs 7.2 crore and he'll play for Kings XI
• Mumbai Indians rope in Jason Behrendorff for Rs 1.5 crore. He had wrecked India in the Guwahati T20
• Left-arm pacer Barinder Sran to play for Kings XI. He is richer by Rs 2.2 crore.
• Chris Jordan gets Rs 1 crore and he will play for SRH
• Mumbai Indians buy JP Duminy for Rs 1 crore
• KKR buy 19-year-old Shivam Mavi for Rs 3 crore
• Sunrisers Hyderabad buy Kerala captain Sachin Baby for Rs 20 lakh
• Now, it's the turn of uncapped batsmen
• Nathan Lyon, Pargyan Ojha and Fawad Ahmed remain unsold
• Afghan offie Mujeeb Zadran gets Rs 4 crore and he will play for Kings XI Punjab
• It's the turn of capped spinners now
• It's a 10-minute break and the big news is left-arm medium-pacer Unadakt getting Rs 11.5 crore. The highest bid for an Indian player this auction.
• No takers for Dale Steyn. It has got a lot to do with the fact that the South African pacer is injured.
• DD buy Trent Boult for Rs 2.2 crore
• CSK buy Shardul Thakur for Rs 2.6 crore
• Unadkat gets a whopping Rs 11.5 crore and goes to Rajasthan Royals
• Fierce bidding for Saurshatra medium-pacer Jaydev Unadkat
• RCB pick up Aussie pacer Nathan Coulter-Nile for Rs 2.2 crore
• Medium-pacer Sandeep Sharma gets Rs 3 crore and he will don SRH colors
• Mohammed Siraj goes to RCB for Rs 2.6 crore
• KKR buy Vinay Kumar for Rs 1 crore
• Kings XI Punjab retain Mohit Sharma for Rs 2.4 crore
• Sunrisers Hyderabad buy Mohammad Nabi for Rs 1 crore
• Capped all-rounders Moises Henriques and Corey Anderson remain unsold
• Delhi buy Daniel Christian for Rs 1.5 crore
• Washington Sundar sold to RCB for Rs 3.2 crore
• International players Shaun Marsh, Lendl Simmons, Travis Head and Eoin Morgan remain unsold
• Mumbai Indians buy Evin Lewis for Rs 3.8 crore
• RCB buy Murugan Ashwin for 2.2 crore
• Shahbaz Nadeem sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 3.2 crore
• Rajasthan Royals buy Gowtham Krishnappa for Rs 6.2 crore
• Uncapped spinners Shivil Kaushik, Iqbal Abdullah, J Suchith, Tejas Baroka, Sai Kishore Ravi Srinivaasan and KC Cariappa remain unsold
• Mumbai Indians buy Rahul Chahar for Rs 1.9 crore
Bengaluru: Young pacer Jaydev Unadkat became the most expensive Indian player at the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction when he was bought by Rajasthan Royals here on Sunday.
The former IPL champions bought the pacer for Rs 11.5 crore after beating keen interest from Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK).
Twenty20 freelance Chris Gayle found a team at the third time of asking. West Indian Gayle went unsold in two rounds with none of the eight franchises looking interested in the swashbuckling left-hander whose five centuries in IPL is the most by any batsman.
It was in the third round that Kings XI Punjab bought Gayle, IPL's leading six-hitter, at his base price of Rs 2 crore.
Manish Pandey and Lokesh Rahul were the most expensive Indians on the opening day of the auction on Saturday as they were sold for identical Rs 11 crore.
Pandey was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad while Punjab secured Rahul's services.
England all-rounder Ben Stokes became the most expensive player at the IPL auction for the second year running when he was taken by Rajasthan for Rs 12.5 crore during the opening day of the auction.
Surprisingly, Unadkat was more expensive than even star New Zealand fast bowler Trent Boult, who was bought by Delhi Daredevils for Rs 2.2 crore.
Unadkat was the second highest wicket-taker during last year's IPL. Representing Rising Pune Supergiant, the 26-year-old had claimed 24 wickets in 12 games at a strike rate of 11.4.
He was also adjudged the man of the Series during India's 3-0 whitewash of Sri Lanka in the Twenty20 International (T20I) series last month. He had claimed four wickets over three matches in that series.
On Sunday, Punjab and Chennai were the initial front runners to secure Unadkat's services. The two teams engaged in a bidding war that saw his value escalate to Rs 11 crore from a base price of Rs 1.5 crore.
Rajasthan made a late bid to sweep the pacer away.
The Royals made another expensive deal on Sunday when they acquired the services of off-spinner Krishnappa Gowtham for Rs 6.20 crore.
Australian pacer Andrew Tye was another hot property. The 31-year-old was at the center of some heated bidding between Punjab and Chennai.
Starting at a base price of Rs 1 crore, Tye saw his value shoot up rapidly before Punjab clinched the deal at Rs 7.2 crore.
Fellow Australian Nathan Coulter-Nile was taken by the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) for Rs 2.2 crore after a short tussle with Punjab.
Indian left-arm seamer Barinder Sran was sold to Punjab for Rs 2.2 crore. India discard pacer Mohit Sharma went to Punjab for Rs 2.4 crore as they exercised the Right to Match (RTM) option to take him away from Chennai.
Another Indian pacer Sandeep Sharma saw heavy bidding between Kolkata and Punjab before Sunrisers Hyderabad got him for Rs 3 crore.