IPL 2020 Auction: List of confirmed players and teams for this year’s tournament
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Your support makes all the difference.Pat Cummins became the most expensive overseas purchase in Indian Premier League (IPL) history as the Kolkata Knight Riders spent more than £1.6 million on the Australian fast bowler in the 2020 IPL Auction.
England limited overs captain Eoin Morgan was also bought by the Knight Riders, while there was also a big deal for all-rounder Sam Curran, who was bought by the Chennai Super Kings.
Australian superstar Glenn Maxwell, seam-bowling all-rounder Chris Morris of South Africa and West Indian left-arm fast bowler Sheldon Cottrell were three of the other marquee purchases as a number of high-profile names went under the hammer at the showpiece event in Kolkata.
Morgan will be joined at the Knight Riders by budding star Tom Banton, with the Somerset opening batsman set to get a first taste of T20 cricket’s premier franchise competition in 2020 after receiving a £110k deal.
Chris Jordan, Tom Curran, Chris Woakes and Jason Roy were also purchased in the auction, taking the English contingent in next year’s competition to 13. Harry Gurney, Jofra Archer, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow, Moeen Ali and Jos Buttler were all retained by their teams before the auction.
Catch up on the auction as it happened below:
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Five biggest signings of the auction
£1.6 million: Pat Cummins, Kolkata Knight Riders.
£1.15 million: Glenn Maxwell, Kings XI Punjab
£1.1 million: Chris Morris, Royal Challengers Bangalore
£910k: Sheldon Cottrell, Kings XI Punjab
£855k: Nathan Coulter-Nile, Mumbai Indians
Where England stars will play in the IPL in 2020
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Moeen Ali
Kings XI Punjab: Chris Jordan
Delhi Capitals: Jason Roy, Chris Woakes
Chennai Super Kings: Sam Curran
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Jonny Bairstow
Kolkata Knight Riders: Eoin Morgan, Tom Banton, Harry Gurney
Mumbai Indians:
Rajasthan Royals: Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Tom Curran
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Having reached the playoffs in each of the last four seasons, Sunrisers Hyderabad are a consistent outfit, and again look one of the IPL's strongest sides. Last year saw the revelation that was the Jonny Bairstow/David Warner opening duo, and both will be excited to reunite after tricky English summers.
It will be a similar Sunrisers side in 2020, albeit with a new man at the helm - Trevor Bayliss will be hoping to get the best out of a strong bowling attack that didn't always fire last season. Rashid Khan remains one of T20's biggest stars and could be given a bigger role with the bat, while Manish Pandey and Vijay Shankar will be hoping to thrust their names back into the thoughts of the Indian selectors in a T20 World Cup year. Abhishek Sharma is one to look out for - a left-arm spinning all-rounder who has been opening the batting to some success for Punjab domestically, but could slot into a lower-middle order finishing role.
Potential XI: David Warner, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Kane Williamson (c), Manish Pandey, Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, Shahbaz Nadeem.
Bench depth includes: Mohammad Nabi, Mitchell Marsh, Wriddhiman Saha, Basil Thampi, Fabian Allen, Sandeep Sharma.
A busy and successful day for the Kolkata Knight Riders braintrust. Brendon McCullum looks rather pleased with his side's business. McCullum earlier confirmed that Dinesh Karthik will likely remain as KKR's captain, though Eoin Morgan will add nous and leadership in the middle order.
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