IPL Auction 2021 LIVE updates: Harbhajan, Nair bag cheap deals; MI acquire Arjun Tendulkar

Mumbai Indians acquire Arjun Tendulkar at base price of Rs 20 lakhs

KKR bag cheap deals, acquire Pawan Negi at base price now

Karun Nair goes to KKR at the base price of Rs 50 lakhs

KKR acquire Harbhajan Singh at the base price

Suyash Prabhudessai and K S Bharat SOLD to RCB.

Ben McDermott goes UNSOLD. Matthew Wade and Sean Abbott also remain UNSOLD.

Daniel Christian with a base price of 75L INR gets the opening bid from RCB and get into a bidding war with KKR.

K.L Shrijith is next & gets no bids. He is UNSOLD.

Ex-Mumbai pacer Mitchell McCleneghan goes unsold

Rajasthan pacer Varun Aaron goes unsold, Oshane Thomas finds no buyers as well

Moises Henriques goes to Punjab Kings for INR 4.2 Crore.

Australia's Marnus Labuschagne fails to attract any attention, goes unsold

Delhi acquire the services of English bowling all-rounder Tom Curran for Rs 5.25 cr

Most expensive players in IPL Auction history:

• Chris Morris - 16.25 crore, 2021
• Yuvraj Singh - 16 crore, 2015
• Pat Cummins - 15.5 crore, 2020
• Kyle Jamieson - 15 crore, 2021
• Ben Stokes - 14.5 crore, 2017

RCB acquire NZ pacer, Kyle Jamieson, for 15 crores. Becomes second-most expensive player today

RCB and DC fight over Kiwi speedster Kylie Jamieson, bidding crosses Rs 10 crores

Windies batsman Darren Bravo, Proteas' power-hitter van der Dussen attract no interests

CSK buy Cheteshwar Pujara at an opening price of Rs 50 lacs as India's Test specialist makes a return to the IPL

Veteran Australian batsman Shaun Marsh goes unsold at IPL 2021 Auctions

Jagadeesha Suchith goes to SRH for INR 30 Lakhs

Tamil Nadu based all-rounder Shahrukh Khan was bought by the newly revamped Punjab Kings for a whopping price of ₹5.25 crore, thus making him one of the costliest Indian players to b]e sold at the IPL 2021 auction. The bidding war was started by Delhi Capitals before Royal Challengers Bangalore joined in. The two franchises bid relentlessly before Delhi backed out at ₹3.3 crore. Read more here

Punjab get young Australian speedster for Rs 8 crores

Australia's uncapped pacer Riley Meredith causes a bidding war between DC and Punjab

Domestic star Mohammed Azharuddeen goes to RCB at his base price

Australian speedster Jhye Richardson has set the cash registers ringing at the Indian Premier League 2021 (IPL 2021) auction. The cricketer was finally sold to the Punjab Kings franchise after they won an intense bidding war with the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). The upcoming IPL 2021 season will also mark his first-ever outing in the tournament, having gone unsold at the last few auctions. Read more here

CSK acquire former Rajasthan all-rounder K Gowtham for Rs 9.25 crores

The former Rajasthan Royals all-rounder has attracted interests from Sunrisers and KKR

Punjab Kings get Shahrukh Khan for Rs 5.25 crores

Former Chennai Super Kings batsman Kedar Jadhav went unsold at the IPL 2021 auction as none of the franchises showed interest in buying the Maharashtra-based cricketer. Notably, Kedar Jadhav IPL 2021 base price was set at a massive ₹2 crore which comes as a surprise considering the kind of form he was in last year. Read more here

After having made a name in the domestic circuit, Sharukh Khan has now ensued a bidding war in the IPL Auctions

South African all-rounder Chris Morris has landed himself a record deal at the Indian Premier League 2021 (IPL 2021) auction. After an intense bidding war between the Punjab Kings and the Rajasthan Royals (RR), the dynamic cricketer finally joined the latter for the much-awaited IPL 2021 season. Remarkably, Morris has now dethroned Yuvraj Singh and Australian quick Pat Cummins to become the most expensive purchase in the history of the tournament. Read more here

RCB acquire Kerala batsman Sachin Baby at Rs 20 lacs

Mumbai Indians get Piyush Chawla for Rs 2.4 crores

"Playing under MS Dhoni would be amazing. I am absolutely buzzing," says Moeen Ali after being bought by CSK for Rs 7 crores.

Veteran CSK spinner Harbhajan Singh goes unsold at the IPL 2021 Auctions. The veteran offie had missed the last IPL season in the UAE. 

Sheldon Cottrell finds no buyers at the IPL 2021 Auction

Mujeeb ur Rahman, England's Adil Rashid go unsold at the IPL 2021 Auctions

Umesh Yadav goes to Delhi Capitals at base price of Rs 1 crores

Australian pacer Coulter-Nile bought by Mumbai for Rs 5 crores

RCB backs out, Punjab Kings get Richardson for Rs 14 crore. The 24-year-old Western Australian took 29 wickets for Perth Scorchers in the recent BBL.

The Australian pacer had put on a brilliant performance in the recently concluded Big Bash League. 

Mumbai-based all-rounder Shivam Dube was bought by Rajasthan Royals for a price of ₹4.4 crore at the IPL 2021 auction which also made him the first Indian player to be sold at the event. Sunrisers Hyderabad started the bidding war for the southpaw before Rajasthan entered the fray and stole the player.  Read more here

Jhye Richardson attracts interests from DC, RCB and Punjab

Rajasthan Royals acquire Bangladesh pacer Mustiafizur Rahman at his base price of Rs 1 crore

Speedster Adam Milne goes to MI for INR 3.2 Crore.

No buyer for Australian wicketkeeper Alex Carey

Unhappy with the high-price of Glenn Maxwell, Gautam Gambhir says, "he has not set the IPL on fire after 2014."

Australian star all-rounder Glenn Maxwell generated much interest among franchises at the Indian Premier League 2021 (IPL 2021) auction. In an intense bidding war between the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), the T20 dynamite joined the latter for a staggering amount. Read more here

Punjab Kings acquire World T20 Player No 1 on ICC Rankings Dawid Malan for merely Rs 1.5 crores

Rajasthan Royals acquire Chris Morris for Rs 16.25 crores

Australian batting mainstay Steve Smith has been bought by the Delhi Capitals for ₹2.2 crores. Read more here

Chris Morris beats Glenn Maxwell's price, bidding rises to Rs 14.50 crores

Mumbai seems to have set their eyes on Morris, bidding rises to over Rs 10 crores

RCB eye return of Chris Morris, Mumbai want the South Africa all-rounder as well. Bidding amount rises to over Rs 7 crores

Rajasthan Royals acquire Shivam Dube for Rs 4.4 crores

Rajasthan Royals, Sunrisers target Shivam Dube

Punjab, CSK enter fray for Moeen Ali

Shakib joins Morgan & Co for Rs 3.2 crores

RCB beat CSK to acquire explosive power-hitter Glenn Maxwell for Rs 14.25 crores

KKR and Punjab Kings now in a tug of war over Shakib al Hassan, bidding crosses Rs 3.2 crores

CSK veteran Kedar Jadhav finds no buyers at IPL 2021 auction

KKR out of race, RCB and CSK lock horns over Maxwell as bidding crosses Rs 1100 Lacs

After jumping 8 teams, Australian skipper Aaron Finch finds no buyers for IPL 2021

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Maxwell attracts franchises at IPL auction

Bangalore and Kolkata fight it out over Glenn Maxwell

In the latest development, Bangladesh wicketkeeper-batsman Mushfiqur Rahim has been included in the auction list as a last-minute addition. 

The RCB franchise released a five-minute video on their social media accounts as part of their “Road to IPL auction” series. In the video, the RCB coach Mike Hessen can be seen emphasizing about the supply-demand auction dynamics and the flexible nature of the IPL auctions. The video also featured interviews from several members of the RCB management giving their takes on the “auction dynamics”. Here is a look at the video where RCB members, sans Virat Kohli, give updates on their road to IPL 2021 auction journey.

• Kyle Jamieson
• Jhye Richardson
• Riley Meredith
• Jason Behrendoff
• Arjun Tendulkar

The Indian Premier League 2021 (IPL 2021) auction is about to set off in a few hours. As many as 292 cricketers, local and overseas, will go under the hammer at the bidding event. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had announced on January 27 that the forthcoming IPL auction will take place in Chennai after the completion of the second Test match between India and England. It was confirmed on the Indian Premier League's social media account that the auction will take place on February 18. According to the Star Sports Network, the IPL auction 2021 start time is scheduled to be from 3 PM (IST) onwards.

A total of 164 Indian players, 125 overseas stars and three cricketers from Associate Nations will be subjected to selection at the IPL 2021 auction. On February 5, the BCCI announced that as many as 1,097 players has registered their names. However, the entire list was later shortlisted and brought down to 291 players by the Indian board.

Some of the biggest names to be up for grabs are Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Dawid Malan, Alex Hales, Shakib Al Hasan, Harbhajan Singh, Aaron Finch among others. With a maximum of 61 slots to be filled, here is an entire IPL 2021 auction list of all 291 players, as announced by the BCCI.

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There is a significant buzz ahead of the IPL 2021 auction, and cricket enthusiasts will also be treated with the live telecast as well as live streaming of the event. Fans in Indian can tune in to the Star Sports Network to catch the live telecast of the program. The IPL auction live streaming will also be made available on the Disney+Hotstar app and website, as well as on JioTV. For more updates online, you can watch our special live blog at www.republicworld.com.

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Ahead of the IPL Auction 2021, the BCCI introduced several new rules that all eight IPL franchises will have to take care of at the IPL auction 2021. Among those rules, one of the most important was that every IPL franchise will have to spend a minimum of 75% of the player purse. Notably, the IPL Governing Council rounded off the player purse of each franchise at ₹85 crore, which means that each owner is supposed to spend a minimum of ₹63.75 crore on buying the players. If any franchise fails to do so, the BCCI will take the deficit as a penalty. While most franchises are likely to cross the limit set by the BCCI, the newly-revamped Punjab Kings could end up suffering due to the introduction of the new rule by the Indian cricket board.

The Punjab-based franchise has the highest player purse of ₹53.2 crore and every side needs to have a minimum of 18 players and a maximum of 25 players in their squad with the limit for overseas players set to 8. Punjab Kings have only spent ₹31.8 crore to retain 16 players which means they will have to spend at least ₹31.95 crore to buy nine more players because if they spend anything less than that, the remaining amount will be forfeited by the BCCI.

A top BCCI official told InsideSport that all teams have to spend minimum amounts and added that they have kept the threshold levels at 75% of the ₹85 crore player purse as the minimum amount that franchises will have to spend. The official further said that the same has been the norm with IPL Auctions in the past as well.