| IPL Auction 2016: Watson, Negi, Yuvraj top buys. Full list of players sold |
| IPL Auction 2016, Watson emerged as the biggest buy with 9.5 crores, followed by Pawan Negi for 8.5 crores and Yuvraj Singh for 7 crore. |
| Shane Watson emerged as the biggest buy of the IPL Auction 2016 conducted in Bangalore on Saturday. Shane Watson was snapped up by Royal Challengers Bangalore for a whopping 9.5 crore, but the surprise buy of the day was of Pawan Negi when Delhi Daredevils lashed a huge sum of 8.5 crores to snap him up, making him the most expensive Indian bought in the IPL Auction 2016. The Base price for Watson was 2 crore when the bidding started and soon RCB and Pune jumped in for some heavy bidding, joined by Mumbai later. But the RCB team led by Virat Kohli managed to snap him up for 9.5 crores. Yuvraj Singh, who emerged as the top draw in last year's auction, was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad for 7 crores, while another surprise pick was for South African all-rounder Chris Morris, who had a base price of 50 lakh but sold out to Delhi Daredevils for a mind-boggling 7 crore. Another Chennai Super Kings player who went for a big money was Mohit Sharma, who had a base price of 1.5 crores and finally was bought by Kings XI Punjab for 6.5 crores. Some of the main players who went unsold included George Bailey, Martin Guptill, Usman Khawaja, Mahela Jayawardene, Mike Hussey and Brad Haddin. Other surprises of the day include, Aaron Finch, Australia's T20 captain and a big hitter of the ball went unsold in the first round and finally bought by Gujarat Lions for his base price of 1 crore in the next round. Also, Dale Steyn couldn't command much of a bigger price, as he was bought easily by Gujarat Lions for only 2.3 crores. The IPL Auction 2016 has shown the homework done by the respective team management, which was shown from the fact that the number of uncapped and young players snapped up in the auction. One such player is M.Ashwin, the rookie leg break bowler from Tamil Nadu, as he was snapped up by the new IPL outfit Pune Supergiants for a whopping 4.5 crore. The base price set for him was only 10 lakh. The list of players bought in the IPL Auction 2016 by each team is as below: Royal Challengers Bangalore Player--Price Paid Shane Watson INR 9.5 cr Stuart Binny INR 2 cr Kane Richardson INR 2 cr Samuel Badree INR 50 lakh Travis Head INR 50 lakh Praveen Dubey INR 35 lakh Vikramjeet Malik INR 20 lakh Akshay Karnewar INR 10 lakh Iqbal Abdullah INR 10 lakh Sachin Baby INR 10 lakh Vikas Tokas INR 10 lakh Mumbai Indians Player--Price Paid Jos Buttler INR 3.8 cr Nathu Singh INR 3.2 cr Tim Southee INR 2.5cr Krunal Pandya INR 2 cr Kishore Pramod Kamath INR 1.4 cr Deepak Punia INR 10 lakh Jitesh Sharma INR 10 lakh Delhi Daredevils Player--Price Paid Pawan Negi INR 8.5 cr Christopher Morris INR 7 cr Sanju Samson INR 4.2 cr Carlos Brathwaite INR 4.2 cr Karun Nair INR 4 cr Rishabh Pant INR 1.9 cr Joel Paris INR 30 lakh Sam Billings INR 30 lakh Chama Milind INR 10 lakh Pratyush Singh INR 10 lakh Syed Khaleel Ahmed INR 10 lakh Pawan Suyal INR 10 lakh Rising Pune Supergiants Player--Price Paid Mitchell Marsh INR 4.8 cr M. Ashwin INR 4.5 cr Ishant Sharma INR 3.8 cr Kevin Pietersen INR 3.5 cr Irfan Pathan INR 1 cr Thisara Perera INR 1 cr Rajat Bhatia INR 60 lakh Ashok Dinda INR 50 lakh Scott Boland INR 50 lakh Peter Handscomb INR 30 lakh Rudra Pratap Singh INR 30 lakh Adam Zampa INR 30 lakh Ishwar Chandra Pandey INR 20 lakh Deepak Chahar INR 10 lakh Jaskaran Singh INR 10 lakh Baba Aparajith INR 10 lakh Ankush Bains INR 10 lakh Ankit Sharma INR 10 lakh Gujarat Lions Player--Price Paid Praveen Kumar INR 3.5 cr Dale Steyn INR 2.3 cr Dinesh Karthik INR 2.3 cr Dwayne Smith INR 2.3 cr Jaydev Shah INR 2 cr Dhawal Kulkarni INR 2 cr Aaron Finch INR 1 cr Eklavya Dwivedi INR 1 cr Andrew Tye INR 50 lakh Ishan Kishan INR 35 lakh Shadab Jakati INR 20 lakh Pravin Tambe INR 20 lakh Pradeep Sangwan INR 20 lakh Amit Mishra INR 10 lakh Shivil Kaushik INR 10 lakh Akshdeep Nath INR 10 lakh Sarabjit Ladda INR 10 lakh Umang Sharma INR 10 lakh Paras Dogra INR 10 lakh Sunrisers Hyderabad Player--Price Paid Yuvraj Singh INR 7 cr Ashish Nehra INR 5.5 cr Deepak Hooda INR 4.2 cr Mustafizur Rahman INR 1.4 cr Aditya Tare INR 1.2 cr Barinder Singh Sran INR 1.2 cr Ben Cutting INR 50 lakh Vijay Shankar INR 35 lakh Abhimanyu Mithun INR 30 lakh Tirumalasetti Suman INR 10 lakh Kolkata Knight Riders Player--Price Paid Jaydev Unadkat INR 1.6 cr Ankit Singh Rajpoot INR 1.5 cr John Hastings INR 1.3 cr Jason Holder INR 70 lakh Colin Munro INR 30 lakh Rajagopal Sathish INR 20 lakh Manan Ajay Sharma INR 10 lakh Kings XI Punjab Player--Price Paid Mohit Sharma INR 6.5 cr Kyle Abbott INR 2.1 cr K.C. Cariappa INR 80 lakh Marcus Stoinis INR 55 lakh Farhaan Behardien INR 30 lakh Pardeep Sahu INR 10 lakh Armaan Jaffer INR 10 lakh Swapnil Singh INR 10 lakh |