Live Updates: Today’s IPL Auction Results and Player List

Understanding the IPL Auction

The IPL auction is always one of the most anticipated events in the Indian cricket calendar. The ever-rising excitement around the game’s toughest T20 league usually reaches its peak in the build-up to the bidding war. The IPL auction is where most teams can bolster their fortunes before participating in the on-field action. 

The auction is a democratic process wherein teams with an equal purse across the board bid for their desired picks, and one making the highest bid is able to purchase that player. 

This detailed, rigorous process allows money-handling and strategizing to come to the fore as skills to compile the right kind of squad. Err, in this process, a franchise leaves itself vulnerable to missing out on the right plugs for the right holes and ultimately losing out on the field. 

Below is a detailed list of terms that often catches viewers’ eyes during an IPL auction. These are used to ascertain the purse available for teams to buy their auction picks after retaining and releasing some members of their squad, the number of overseas slots they still have to fulfil, the base price, and the reserve prizes. 

Today’s IPL Auction: Schedule and Details

Today IPL auction is the most sought-after date for cricket fans, especially those who absolutely love to follow the premier T20 league in the world. They glue on their television sets and streaming platforms to watch the bidding war between IPL franchises as they try to go one-up on each other and bag their desired players during the auction process. This process is so important that the BCCI and IPL governing council usually announce the date for the auction well in advance to the franchises and reserve a designated venue to ensure it goes smoothly.

The IPL 2023 mini-auction, which is the first auction for the current three-year cycle, will be held on December 23 in the beautiful city of Kochi in Kerala, where all ten IPL franchises will enter a riveting tussle to rope in their favourite players in respective squads and finalise their playing contingent for the tournament to be played in April-May. 

As per the IPL auction update: 405 of the originally registered 991 cricketers will be up for grabs for the franchise. Teams have 87 vacant spots to be filled, of which 30 can be overseas players. The influx of nearly half of the registered players into the auction pool, with less than one-fourth of the slots to be filled in reality, has only added to the sense of excitement around the IPL 2023 auction coming ahead. Below is a table through which you can find a round-up of the exact scheduling of the IPL auction – date, venue, and timings.  

Today’s IPL Auction Results: Live Updates

The first player up for grabs is Kane Williamson. As part of set 1, he goes to Gujarat Titans (GT) at a base sum of INR 2 crores. The former Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) captain is now a Titans batter. It would be interesting to see where the franchise fits New Zealand great in their settled playing XI.

England’s rising young batter Harry Brook, considered one of the finest talents in world cricket, goes to SRH for INR 13.25 crores, becoming the first millionaire of the IPL 2023 auction. As it panned out, Brook had his first bid made by the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) before the Rajasthan Royals (RR) joined in the bidding war. But ultimately, it was SRH who broke their bank for him that reserved the player’s services. 

Mayank Agarwal’s name entered the bidding tussle for INR 1 crores. RCB once again make the first move. PBKS join in. They are followed by CSK at 3 crores. Persistent PBKS enter a direct war with CSK, and the prize zooms up to INR 5 crores. Now, SRH swoop in and fight for the player with the two franchises. Agarwal’s prize shoots up to 7.75 crores. CSK make a bid of 8 crores, but they shut the shop as SRH takes the sum to 8.25 crores, which is now the final bidding prize. Former PBKS captain Mayank Agarwal is now an SRH opener. 

CSK do find their Indian opener in Ajinkya Rahane, as he pops up for a base sum of INR 50 lakhs. The uncontested player goes to the four-time champions at his base prize. 

All eyes were on Set 2 featuring the bid-name overseas all-rounders, and it is England’s Sam Curran, who is the first name up for bidding. Curran has entered with a base sum of 2 crores. MI and RCB swoop in immediately. It’s going frenetic now, with the paddle raised every second. The prize zooms up to 6 crores. Royals jump in to see the prize further shoot up to 10 crores. CSK enter with the sum now skyrocketing to 11.75 crores. 

MI and RCB have left, and so have the Royals, but CSK have a battle on their hands with PBKS. The prize goes up to 15 crores. CSK take the lead with a bid of 15.25 crores. But PBKS shut them up with a bid of 15.75 crores. LSG are the surprise entrants with 16 crores. PBKS, however, are hell-bent on regaining their all-rounder and win the tussle at 18 crores. Sam Curran is now the most expensive player ever in the history of the IPL. 

Defending champions Titans make a quiet but secured punt at WI all-rounder Odean Smith, fetching him for a base sum of INR 50 lakhs. 

PBKS bolster their all-round stocks and playing combination with the inclusion of Zimbabwe’s in-form all-round cricketer Sikandar Raza for another base sum bid of 50 lakhs. 

Jason Holder is the next player in. The Caribbean all-rounder has set his base prize at 2 crores, recognising the paucity of all-round options available to teams. Holder finds his first bid from CSK. The Royals now jump in. They’re both at it passionately. The prize swells up to 5 crores. Successive bids take the prize to 5.50 crores. But Holder ultimately goes to the Royals for a sum of 5.75 crores. 

Cameron Green enters the scene with huge expectations. The young Australian all-rounder has a base sum of INR 2 crores. Oh, immediately, the Mumbai Indians raise their paddle. They are followed by the Delhi Capitals. Now it’s reaching a frenzy. There is a paddle raised every second. Within a minute of his name popping up, Green has become a millionaire before even playing his first match of the IPL. The bid has reached 17 crores. Surely, surely, it’s over now. But hang on; MI persist with a bid of 17.25 crores. That is the winning bid, too. Green is still the second-highest-bid player ever, though, with Curran taking the cake only a few bids earlier. 

Green is followed by Ben Stokes, the world’s leading all-rounder and England Test captain, pushing for a return to the IPL after three years. Stokes has a base prize set at 2 crores. Royals are the first to jump in. Their bid follows that of RCB. What do we have here? It’s a real battle now. The prize has zoomed up to 6 crores. But RR have the lead at 6.25 crores. 

We have a new bidder in LSG here. The prize stands at 7 crores now. SRH also get into it. Another riveting auction war on hands as Stokes only gets richer, with the prize skyrocketing up to 14 crores. His return to the IPL has been worth it for the England cricketer. CSK enter at 15.25 crores. LSG make one final push before they walk off. CSK, the late entrants for Stokes, have bagged their player at 16.25 crores – another bank broker.

Today IPL Auction All Team Players List

Today ipl auction list has given us 87 players divided and slotted into their respective teams after a long day in Kochi, where all ten IPL franchises managed to finalise their squads before the on-field action. Today ipl auction players list for IPL 2023 auction gives us a brief view of these picks in relation to their base sum, the bidding sum, which nation they belong to and the teams they ultimately went for.

Today’s IPL Auction: Top Picks and Surprises

Live updates ipl auction provided a nice glimpse into the top picks for the auction today, with no surprise that the auction’s set 2 produced the biggest bids. And for a good reason. It featured the game’s finest all-round cricketers of the current generation, and with the paucity of Indian names capable of providing similar utility, it was only expected that the franchises would break the bank to reserve their services. 

The biggest pick from the ipl auction live today was England all-rounder Sam Curran, whom PBKS fetched at a jaw-dropping sum of INR 18 crores. The English cricketer benefited immensely from his “Player of the Tournament” performance at the men’s T20 World Cup in Australia and is now the highest-bid player ever in the history of the IPL. 

Cameron Green had the chance to match or potentially go beyond even Curran, though, when Mumbai Indians (MI) started shelling out the maximum portion of their purse for his services. Wanting to avail the Aussie cricketer after the retirement of their premier all-rounder Kieron Pollard, MI were always expected to go after him. What followed, however, was a riveting battle with the Capitals, who, combined with LSG and SRH, pushed the base prize of 2 crores to 17 crores, with MI ultimately bagging their player for 17.5 crores. 

Two other notable top picks were England all-rounder Ben Stokes and West Indies middle-order maverick Nicholas Pooran. Stokes, making a return to the IPL after three years, found a winning bid of INR 16.25 crores from CSK, reuniting with the legendary MS Dhoni at the four-time champions after his two-season stint with the now-disbanded Rising Pune Super Giants. Stokes had entered at a base sum of 2 crores. But then a flurry of bids from RCB, Royals, SRH and LSG pushed the prize up to 15 crores. Notably, the CSK were late entrants into things and emerged victorious despite other franchises pushing the base sum up by 8 times.

Pooran was not only LSG’s most expensive pick but also a bit of a surprise pick himself. After struggling in the previous year’s IPL, where he turned out for SRH, Pooran found a new base for himself at an even greater sum. It was perhaps the biggest ipl auction news of the day. Not many franchises were expected to shell out the money for him. But Pooran attracted multiple bidders and became one of the millionaires to emerge in the ipl auction live update. The Caribbean maverick will now be eyeing a fruitful season to justify the faith shown in him by the LSG think-tank. 

The live updates ipl auction list includes various other picks that can be categorised into top picks and surprises. But below is a bit of a rundown on the picks above, with their strengths and weaknesses notified alongside their base sums and also the bidding prize they ultimately went for. 

Today’s IPL Auction News and Analysis

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