Marquee players, prominent Indian names and more: A breakdown of IPL auction player list

Only 70 spots are up for grabs at the Indian Premier League’s player auction for the 2019 season with 348 players making the final cut for the event that is set be held in Jaipur on Tuesday.

While 1,003 players had initially registered, the final list has been pruned after the eight franchises submitted their shortlist of players.

List of Capped Players as per their base price

Base Price (INR)	Total players	Indian players	Overseas players
2 crore	9	-	9
1.5 crore	10	1	9
1 crore	19	4	15
75 lakh	18	2	16
50 lakh	62	18	44

Courtesy: BCCI

List of Uncapped Players per their base price

Base Price (INR)	Total players	Indian players	Overseas players
40 lakh	7	-	7
30 lakh	8	5	3
20 lakh	213	196	17

Courtesy: BCCI

Here’s the complete list of players retained by franchises.

No Indian cricketer figures in the highest reserve price bracket of Rs 2 crore.

Brendon McCullum, Chris Woakes, Lasith Malinga, Shaun Marsh, Colin Ingram, Corey Anderson, Angelo Mathews, Sam Curran and D’Arcy Short have opted to be slotted in the highest bracket of Rs 2 crore.

Pacer Jaydev Unadkat, last season’s top Indian grosser with a whopping final bid amount of Rs 11.5 crore, leads the pack of local players with a base price of Rs 1.5 crore.

Former Kings XI Punjab all-rounders Yuvraj Singh and Axar Patel have set their base price at Rs 1 crore along with KKR’s Wriddhiman Saha. Yuvraj was bought by KXIP at his base price of Rs 2 crore last year before the franchise released him ahead of the auction.

Paceman Mohammed Shami has set his base price at Rs 1 crore while Ishant Sharma and Naman Ojha will invite the first bid at Rs 75 lakh.

Cheteshwar Pujara, Manoj Tiwary, Hanuma Vihari, Gurkeerat Singh and Mohit Sharma have set their base price at Rs 50 lakh.

Marquee players (Base price Rs 2 crore)
Corey Anderson
Sam Curran
Colin Ingram
Lasith Malinga
Shaun Marsh
Angelo Matthews
Brendon McCullum
D'arcy Short
Chris Woakes

Pujara and Ishant are two interesting names in the list of capped Indian players available.

Here’s the complete list.

Capped Indian players in the auction

Players	Specialisation	Reserve price (In Rs lakh)
Jaydev Unadkat	BOWLER	150
Axar Patel	ALL-ROUNDER	100
Yuvraj Singh	ALL-ROUNDER	100
Wriddhiman Saha	WICKETKEEPER	100
Mohammad Shami	BOWLER	100
Naman Ojha	WICKETKEEPER	75
Ishant Sharma	BOWLER	75
Cheteshwar Pujara	BATSMAN	50
Manoj Tiwary	BATSMAN	50
Hanuma Vihari	BATSMAN	50
Gurkeerat Singh	ALL-ROUNDER	50
Varun Aaron	BOWLER	50
Mohit Sharma	BOWLER	50
Rahul Sharma	BOWLER	50
Saurabh Tiwary	BATSMAN	50
Rishi Dhawan	ALL-ROUNDER	50
Parvez Rasool	ALL-ROUNDER	50
Mithun Abhimanyu	BOWLER	50
R Vinay Kumar	BOWLER	50
Barinder Sran	BOWLER	50
Faiz Fazal	BATSMAN	50
Irfan Pathan	ALL-ROUNDER	50
Manpreet Grewal	BOWLER	50
Ashoke Dinda	BOWLER	50
Sudeep Tyagi	BOWLER	50

Another big factor in the auction on Tuesday is going to be the availability of players for the complete duration of the league. Except New Zealand and West Indies, all other boards have restricted the availability of their players. Australia and England players (especially those in the ODI World Cup scheme of things) are likely to spend the least time in the league.

Breakdown of foreign players by country

Country	Number of players
Australia	23
West Indies	18
England	18
New Zealand	13
South Africa	26
Sri Lanka	7
Associate (Netherlands, USA)	2
Afghanistan	8
Ireland	1
Bangladesh	2
Zimbabwe	2
Total	120

The following are the most expensive foreign players in the auction. JP Duminy, Moises Henriques are two prominent names who have their base prices listed below Rs 1.5 crore.

Prominent foreigners apart from marquee players

Player	Specialty	Base price (in Rs lakh)
Alex Hales	BATSMAN	150
Jonny Bairstow	WICKETKEEPER	150
Morne Morkel	BOWLER	150
Dale Steyn	BOWLER	150
Rilee Rossouw	BATSMAN	150
Luke Wright	BATSMAN	150
James Faulkner	ALL-ROUNDER	150
Alex Carey	WICKETKEEPER	150
Liam Dawson	ALL-ROUNDER	150