Internet Desk: The opening day of the IPL auction 2018 has been full of drama and excitement, as the franchise owners have reflected their definite strategies and plans when they were in tug of wars to purchase the players they were looking for. Here goes the full list of purchases on Day 1.
The squads and how they stack up:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Mitchell Starc (9.4 crore), Chris Lynn (9.6 crore), Dinesh Karthik (7.4 crore), Robin Uthappa (6.4 crore Right to Match card), Piyush Chawla (4.2 crore Right to Match card), Kuldeep Yadav (5.8 crore Right to Match card), Shubman Gill (1.8 crore), Ishank Jaggi (20 Lakh), Kamlesh Nagarkoti (3.2 crore), Nitish Rana (3.4 crore)
Kings XI Punjab: Ravichandran Ashwin (7.6 crore), Yuvraj Singh (2 crore), Karun Nair (5.6 crore), KL Rahul (11 crore), David Miller (3 crore Right to Match card), Aaron Finch (6.2 crore), Marcus Stoinis (6.2 crore Right to Match card), Ankit Rajpoot (3 crore)
Chennai Super Kings: Faf du Plessis (1.6 crore), Dwayne Bravo (6.4 crore Right to Match card), Harbhajan Singh (2 crore), Shane Watson (4 crore), Kedar Jadhav (7.8 crore), Ambati Rayudu (2.2 crore), Imran Tahir (1 crore), Karn Sharma (5 crore)
Delhi Daredevils: Glenn Maxwell (9 crore), Gautam Gambhir (2.8 crore), Jason Roy (1.5 crore), Colin Munro (1.9 crore), Mohammed Shami (3 crore Right to Match card), Kagiso Rabada (4.2 crore Right to match card), Amit Mishra (4 crore), Prithvi Shaw (1.2 crore), Rahul Tewatia (3 crore), Vijay Shankar (3.2 crore), Harshal Patel (20 Lakh), Avesh Khan (70 lakh)
Rajasthan Royals: Ben Stokes (12.5 crore), Ajinkya Rahane (4 crore Right to Match card), Stuart Binny (50 Lakh), Sanju Samson (8 crore), Jos Buttler (4.4 crore), Rahul Tripathi (3.4 crore), D’Arcy Short (4 crore), Jofra Archer (7.2 crore)
Mumbai Indians: Kieron Pollard (5.4 crore Right to Match), Mustafizur Rahman (2.2 crore), Pat Cummins (5.4 crore), Suryakumar Yadav (3.2 crore), Krunal Pandya (8.8 crore), Ishan Kishan (6.2 crore)
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Shikhar Dhawan (5.2 crore Shikhar Dhawan), Shakib Al Hasan (2 crore), Kane Williamson (3 crore), Manish Pandey (11 crore), Carlos Brathwaite (2 crore), Yusuf Pathan (1.9 crore), Wriddhiman Saha (5 crore), Rashid Khan (9 crore Right to Match card), Ricky Bhui (20 Lakh), Siddharth Kaul (3.8 crore), T Natrajan (40 lakh), Basil Thampi (95 lakh), Khaleel Ahmed (SRH)
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Brendon McCullum (3.6 crore), Chris Woakes (7.4 crore), Colin De Grandhomme (2.2 crore), Moeen Ali (1.7 crore), Quinton de Kock (2.8 crore), Umesh Yadav (4.2 crore), Yuzvendra Chahal (6 crore Right to match card), Manan Vohra (1.1 crore), Kulwant Khejroliya (85 lakh), Aniket Choudhary (30 lakh), Navdeep Saini (3 crore)