IPL Auction 2019: Date, time, player list, rules, and format

The IPL 2019 auction is just a couple of days away and the teams are busy coming up with new strategies and plotting their buys for the upcoming season.

An initial list of 1003 has been shortened to 346 players, out of which 227 are Indians. The salary cap for each team has risen from ₹ 80 to 82 crore for the season.

For the first time in 11 years, the IPL will see a different auctioneer. Hugh Edmeades is set to replace Richard Madley.

This year's auction will not be as big as last year's, which saw complete overhaul of squads.

IPL auction: 18 December 2018

IPL auction 2019 (venue): Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Time: 14:30 IST

Telecast: Star Network and Hotstar (You can also follow the live commentary of Sportskeeda’s IPL Live blog.)

Auction Rules

The 346 players in the auction pool will be sorted into groups based on their role, (batsman, bowler, all-rounder) and split into pots.

- The auctioneer, Hugh Edmeades will then call out the player’s name and teams will start raising their team paddles in order to raise a bid for the players. The bidding will start from the base price of the player and will go on for as long as it has to. The team with the highest bid will get the player.

- The bidding will continue till all the other teams back out and the auctioneer calls the player sold.

- If no team raises the paddle for a considerable period of time, the player will go unsold.

- The unsold players will then go back into the pot and can be bought later on in the day as well.

Players retained by each team:

The teams had to submit a list of players retained and released ahead of the auctions. While most of the teams did release quite a few players, the Chennai Super Kings released just three players, including Englishman Mark Wood.

Prior to this, a few trades took place amongst the teams as well. Quinton de Kock's trade to the Mumbai Indians was the most popular one.

Here is the list of players retained by each team:

Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (C), Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Mayank Markande, Rahul Chahar, Anukul Roy, Siddhesh Lad, Aditya Tare, Kieron Pollard, Ben Cutting, Mitchell McClenaghan, Adam Milne, Jason Behrendorff, Evin Lewis, Quinton de Kock(traded)

Delhi Daredevils: Shreyas Iyer, Prithvi Shaw, Rishabh Pant, Manjot Kalra, Colin Munro, Chris Morris, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Harshal Patel, Amit Mishra, Kagiso Rabada, Trent Boult, Sandeep Lamichhane, Avesh Khan, Shikhar Dhawan(traded)

Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Suresh Raina, Kedar Jadhav, Dwayne Bravo, Karn Sharma, Shane Watson, Shardul Thakur, Ambati Rayudu, Murali Vijay, Harbhajan Singh, Faf Du Plessis, Sam Billings, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, Lungisani Ngidi, Asif KM, N Jagadeesan, Monu Singh, Dhruv Shorey, Chaitanya Bishnoi, David Willey, Mitchell Santner

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Hooda, Manish Pandey, Natarajan, Ricky Bhui, Sandeep Sharma, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Yusuf Pathan, Billy Stanlake, David Warner, Kane Williamson, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, and Shakib Al-Hasan, Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem, Abhishek Sharma(Traded)

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Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal, Colin de Grandhomme, Parthiv Patel, Pawan Negi, Kulwant Khejroliya, Moeen Ali, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Tim Southee, Washington Sundar, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Marcus Stoinis(traded)

Rajasthan Royals: Ajinkya Rahane, Krishnappa Gowtham, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Gopal, Aryaman Birla, Sudhesan Midhun, Prashant Chopra, Stuart Binny, Rahul Tripathi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mahipal Lomror, Jos, Buttler, Ben Stokes, Steve Smith, Jofra Archer, Ish Sodhi

Kings XI Punjab: Lokesh Rahul, Chris Gayle, Andrew Tye, Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Rajpoot, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Karun Nair, David Miller, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mandeep Singh(traded)

Kolkata Knight Riders: Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Chris Lynn, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shubman Gill, Prasidh Krishna, Shivam Mavi, Nitish Rana, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Rinku Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Piyush Chawla.

List of players available for auction

As mentioned earlier in the article, a total of 346 players will be up for grabs in the upcoming auction.

There is no Indian in the 2 crore bracket. However, there are 9 foreigners whose base price is Rs. 2 crores, namely England's Sam Curran and Chris Woakes, South Africa's Colin Ingram, Sri Lanka's Angelo Mathews and Lasith Malinga, Australia's Shaun Marsh and D'Arcy Short, and New Zealand's Brendon McCullum and Corey Anderson.

Jaydev Unadkat is the most expensive Indian in the auction at Rs. 1.5 crores. Apart from him, there are quite a few high-profile Indians in the auction, namely Yuvraj Singh, Mohammed Shami, and Ishant Sharma to name a few.

Download the PDF of the complete list of players available for the IPL Auction

Auction purse and available slots:

KXIP have the most money left with them

Since each team does not have too many slots to fill unlike last year, the auction purse for each team is obviously much lower.

The Kings XI Punjab, who have as many as 15 slots available, have the highest amount in their purse. On the other hand, the Chennai Super Kings have the least amount to spend.

Here is the auction purse with each team and the available slots:

Kolkata Knight Riders - 15.20 crore (Available slots: 12 — Indian 7, Overseas 5)

Kings XI Punjab - 36.20 crore (Available slots: 15 — Indian 11, Overseas 4)

Delhi Capitals - 25.50 crore (Available slots: 10 — Indian 7, Overseas 3)

Royal Challengers Bangalore - 18.15 crore (Available slots: 10 — Indian 8, Overseas 2)

Mumbai Indians - 11.15 crore (Available slots: 7 — Indian 6, Overseas 1)

Rajasthan Royals - 20.95 crore (Available slots: 9 — Indian 6, Overseas 3)

Chennai Super Kings - 8.40 crore (Available slots: 2 — Indian 2, Overseas 0)

Sunrisers Hyderabad - 9.70 crore(Available slots: 5 — Indian 3, Overseas