IPL auction: Biggest winners, full squads

Following two intense days of bidding in Bangalore, the 2018 Indian Premier League auction concluded with millions of dollars splashed out on some of the best cricketers on the planet.

In total, 169 players were sold to the eight franchises, with 17 Australians earning contracts for the upcoming season.

Hard-hitting batsman Chris Lynn was the highest-paid Australian after he was bought for AUD1.86 million by Kolkata Knight Riders.

Kolkata also snapped up Mitchell Starc for $1,8m, while Glenn Maxwell was sold to Ricky Ponting's Delhi Daredevils for $1.75m.

England allrounder Ben Stokes was the overall highest-paid player - he was bought for $2.4m by the Steve Smith-led Rajasthan Royals. 

THE AUSTRALIANS (AUD)
Chris Lynn (Kolkata Knight Riders) - $1.86m
Mitchell Starc (Kolkata Knight Riders) - $1.8m
Glenn Maxwell (Delhi Daredevils) - $1.75m
Andrew Tye (Kings XI Punjab) - $1.4m
Aaron Finch (Kings XI Punjab) - $1.2m
Marcus Stoinis (Kings XI Punjab) - $1.2m
Patrick Cummins (Mumbai Indians) - $1.05m
Shane Watson (Chennai Super Kings) - $775,000
D'Arcy Short (Rajasthan Royals) - $775,000
Ben Cutting (Mumbai Indians) - $426,000
Nathan Coulter-Nile (Royal Challengers Bangalore) - $426,000
Mitchell Johnson (Kolkata Knight Riders) - $388,000
Dan Christian (Delhi Daredevils) - $291,000
Jason Behrendorff (Mumbai Indians) - $291,000
Ben Dwarshuis (Kings XI Punjab) - $271,000
Billy Stanlake - (Sunrisers Hyderabad) - $97,000
Ben Laughlin (Rajasthan Royals) - $97,000

BIGGEST BUYS (AUD)
Ben Stokes (Rajasthan Royals) - $2.4m
Jaydev Unadkat (Rajasthan Royals) - $2.2m
Manish Pandey (Sunrisers Hyderabad) - $2.1m
KL Rahul (Kings XI Punjab) - $2.1m
Chris Lynn (Kolkata Knight Riders) - $1.86m
Mitchell Starc (Kolkata Knight Riders) - $1.8m
Glenn Maxwell (Delhi Daredevils) - $1.75m
Rashid Khan (Sunrisers Hyderabad) - $1.7m

IPL TEAMS

(UC = uncapped international player; OS = overseas player)

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, Sarfaraz Khan, AB de Villiers (OS), Brendon McCullum (OS), Chris Woakes (OS), Colin de Grandhomme (OS), Moeen Ali (OS), Quinton de Kock (OS), Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Manan Vohra (UC), Kulwant Khejroliya (UC), Nandeep Saini, Murugan Ashwin (UC), Mandeep Singh, Pawan Negi, Mohammad Siraj, Anirudha Joshi, Parthiv Patel, Tim Southee (OS), Pavan Deshapnde (UC)

Kolkata Knight Riders: Andre Russell (OS), Sunil Narine (OS), Mitchell Starc (OS), Chris Lynn (OS), Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Shubman Gill (UC), Ishank Jaggi (UC), Ntish Rana, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Aniket Choudhary, Gurkeerat Mann Singh, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Rahul Tewatia (UC), Vinay Kumar, Apoorv Wankhade, Rinku Singh, Shivan Mavi, Cameron Delport (OS), Mitchell Johnson (OS), Javon Searless

Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Faf du Plessis (OS), Harbhajan Singh, Dwayne Bravo (OS), Shane Watson (OS), Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Ryudu, Imran Tahir (OS), Karn Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Jagadeesan Narayan, Mitchell Santner (OS), Deepak Chahar, Asif KM, Lungisani Ngidi (OS), Kanish Seth, Dhruv Shorey, Murali Vijay, Sam Billings (OS), Mark Wood (OS), Kshitiz Sharma (UC), Monu Singh (UC), Chaitanya Bishnoi (UC)

Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Kieron Pollard (OS), Mustafizur Rahman (OS), Pat Cummins (OS), Surya Kumar (UC), Ishan Kishan, Rhul Chahar (UC), Evin Lewis (OS), Saurabh Tiwary, Ben Cutting (OS), Pradeep Sangwan, JP Duminy (OS), Jason Behrendorff (OS), Tajinder Dhillon, Sharad Lumba, Siddhesh Lad (UC), Aditya Tare (UC), Mayank Markande (UC), Akila Dhananjaya (OS), Pradeep Sahu (UC), Anukul Roy (UC), Mohsin Khan (UC), Nidheesh MD Dinesan (UC)

Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner (OS), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shikhar Dhawan, Shakib Al Hasan (OS), Kane Williamson (OS), Manish Pandey, Carlos Brathwaite (OS), Yusuf Pathan, Wriddhiman Saha, Rashid Khan (OS), Ricky Bhui, Deepak Hooda, Siddarth Kaul, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Basil Thampi, T Natarajan, Mohammad Nabi (OS), Sandeep Sharma, Sachin Baby, Chris Jordan (OS), Billy Stanlake (OS), Tanmay Agarwal, Shreevats Goswami, Bipul Sharma (UC), Mehedi Hasan

Delhi Daredevils: Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Chris Morris (OS), Glenn Maxwell (OS), Gautam Gambhir, Jason Roy (OS), Colin Munro (OS), Mohammad Shami, Kagiso Rabada (OS), Amit Mishra, Prithvi Shaw (UC), Harshal Patel (UC), Rahul Tewatia, Vijay Shankar, Avesh Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem (UC), Dan Christian (OS), Jayant Yadav, Trent Boult (OS), Manjot Kalra, Abhishek Sharma, Sandeep Lamichhane (OS), Naman Ojha, Sayan Ghosh

Rajasthan Royals: Steve Smith (OS), Ben Stokes (OS), Ajinkya Rahane, Stuart Binny, Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler (OS), Rahul Tripathi (UC), Jofra Archer (UC, OS), D'Arcy Short (UC, OS), Gowtham Krishnappa (UC), Dhawan Kulkarni, Jaydev Unadkat, Ankit Sharma, Anureet Singh Kathuria, Zahir Khan Pakteen (OS), MS Midhun, Prashant Chopra (UC), Ben Laughlin (OS), Mahipal Lomror (UC), Jatin Saxena (UC), Aryaman Vikram Birla  (UC), Dushmanta Chameera

Kings XI Punjab: Axar Patel, Ravi Ashwin, Yuvraj Singh, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, David Miller (OS), Aaron Finch (OS), Marcus Stoinis (OS), Mayank Agarwal (UC), Ankit Singh Rajpoot, Manoj Tiwary, Mohit Sharma, Mujeeb Zadran, Barinder Sran, Andrew Tye (OS), Shreyas Gopal, Ben Dwarshuis (OS), Mayank Dagar (UC), Chris Gayle (OS), Manzoor Dar (UC)

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