Vivo IPL 2020 Auction: Cummins fetches record Rs 15.50 crore bid

Kolkata: Pat Cummins became the most expensive foreign buy ever in the Indian Premier League (IPL) players’ auction here on Thursday when two-time former champions Kolkata Knight Riders shelled out a whopping Rs 15.50 crore for the lead Australian pacer.

It was also a hefty payday for Cummins’ Australian teammate Glenn Maxwell, who returned to Kings XI Punjab with a price tag of Rs 10.75 crore after an intense bidding war with Delhi Capitals. KXIP went into the auction with the biggest available purse of Rs 42.70 crore.

Teams going all out for Cummins were on expected lines as he has been in top form with the ball and at times has also proved his worth with the bat.

Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore were engaged in an intense bidding war for the Australian before KKR joined the battle at Rs 15 crore and eventually outbid the two franchises. Cummins has taken 32 wickets in 25 IPL matches so far with an economy of just over 6.

With the price he fetched, Cummins broke the record for the most expensive foreign buy held by Ben Stokes. England’s all-rounder Stokes was bought by Rising Pune Supergiant for Rs 14.5 crore in the 2017 auction. It also marks Cummin’s return to KKR. The pacer has also played for Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals.

Both Maxwell and Cummins had opted out of last year’s IPL.

Another big buy at the auction was South African Chris Morris, who was sold for Rs 10 crore to Royal Challengers Bangalore. West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell, with a base price of Rs 50 lakh, fetched a winning bid of Rs 8.50 crore from Kings XI Punjab.

The following is the list of sold players in the Indian Premier League Players’ Auction here on Thursday.

Sold Players:

Pat Cummins – Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 15.5 crore

Glenn Maxwell – Kings XI Punjab for Rs 10.75 crore

Sheldon Cotrell – Kings XI Punjab for Rs 8.5 crore

Nathan Coulter-Nile – Mumbai Indians for Rs 8 crore

Shimron Hetmyer – Delhi Capitals for Rs 7.75 crore

Piyush Chawla – Chennai Super Kings for Rs 6.75 crore

Sam Curran – Chennai Super Kings for Rs 5.5 crore)

Alex Carey – Delhi Capitals for Rs 2.4 crore

Jason Roy – Delhi Capitals for Rs 1.5 crore

Chris Woakes – Delhi Capitals for Rs 1.5 crore

Ravi Bishnoi – Kings XI Punjab for Rs 2 crore

Deepak Hooda – Kings XI Punjab for Rs 50 lakh

Ishan Porel – Kings XI Punjab for Rs 20 lakh

Eoin Morgan – Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 5.25 crore

Varun Chakravarthy – Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 4 crore

Rahul Tripathi – Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 60 lakh

M Siddharth – Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 20 lakh

Chris Lynn – Mumbai Indians for Rs 2 crore

Saurabh Tiwary – Mumbai Indians for Rs 50 lakh

Robin Uthappa – Rajasthan Royals for Rs 3 crore

Jaydev Unadkat – Rajasthan Royals for Rs 3 crore

Yashasvi Jaiswal – Rajasthan Royals for Rs 2.4 crore

Kartik Tyagi – Rajasthan Royals for Rs 1.3 crore

Anuj Rawat – Rajasthan Royals for Rs 80 lakh

Akash Singh – Rajasthan Royals for Rs 20 lakh

Chris Morris – Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 10 crore

Aaron Finch – Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 4.4 crore

Priyam Gard – Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 1.9 crore

Virat Singh – Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 1.9 crore

Josh Hazlewood – Chennai Super Kings for Rs 2 crore

James Neesham – Kings XI Punjab for Rs 50 lakh

David Miller – Rajasthan Royals for Rs 75 lakh

Akash Singh – Rajasthan Royals for Rs 20 lakh

Chris Green – Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 20 lakh

Mohsin Khan – Mumbai Indians for Rs 20 lakh

Joshua Philippe – Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 20 lakh

Fabian Allen – Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 50 lakh

Sandeep Bavanaka – Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 20 lakh

Chris Jordan – Kings XI Punjab for Rs 3 crore

Tom Banton – Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 1 crore

R Sai Kishore – Chennai Super Kings for Rs 20 lakh

Marcus Stoinis – Delhi Capitals for Rs 4.8 crore

Mohit Sharma – Delhi Capitals for Rs 50 lakh

Tushar Deshpande – Delhi Capitals for Rs 20 lakh

Prabhsimran Singh – Kings XI Punjab for Rs 55 lakh

Tajinder Dhillon – Kings XI Punjab for Rs 20 lakh

Pravin Tambe – Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 20 lakh

Digvijay Deshmukh – Mumbai Indians for Rs 20 lakh

Prince Balwant Rai Singh – Mumbai Indians for Rs 20 lakh

Oshane Thomas – Rajasthan Royals for Rs 50 lakh

Anirudha Ashok Joshi – Rajasthan Royals for Rs 20 lakh

Akash Singh – Mumbai Indians for Rs 20 lakh

Kane Richardson – Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 4 crore

Dale Steyn – Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 2 crore

Isuru Udhana – Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 50 lakh

Shahbaz Ahmed – Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 20 lakh

Mitchell March – Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 2 crore

Sanjay Yadav – Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 20 lakh

Abdul Samad – Sunrsiers Hyderabad for Rs 20 lakh

Nikhil Shankar Naik – Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 20 lakh.