Delhi Daredevils(DD) team IPL auction 2017: Rabada, Anderson top buys

That then folks concludes the 2017 IPL auction. It has been a day that has seen some major purchases for franchises and some prominent players going unsold.

As far as the Daredevils are concerned, they bought as many as 9 players, including the likes of Kagiso Rabada, Corey Anderson in the overseas department and the likes of Aditya Tare, Ankit Bawne etc in the Indian domestic setup.

They also got an old player in the form of Angelo Matthews who played for the team earlier. All in all, it was a good auction for the team, who will go back with satisfaction for the buys they have made during the course of the day.

Thank you all for joining us and we look forward to your company for the League in April.

This is Shankar Narayan signing off!

Sayan Ghosh picked up by KKR.

Manoj Tiwary picked by RPS for 50 lakhs.

Akshdeep Nath picked up by Gujarat Lions and Darren Bravo picked by KKR.

WE ARE BACK for the final phase of the auction.

Ishank Jaggi picked by KKR.

The GL have picked two unknown players on the trot- Shelley Shaurya and Shubham Agrawal

Baba Indrajith also goes UNSOLD.

Mehdi Hasan the Bangladeshi off-spinner also goes UNSOLD.

Virat Singh also goes UNSOLD.

Ben Wheeler also goes UNSOLD.

Pretorius also goes UNSOLD in the auction.

The Daredevils have bought Shashank Singh for Rs. 10 lakhs.

Munaf Patel is picked by the Gujarat Lions.

Mitchell Santner is also a part of this process and goes UNSOLD.

James Neesham from New Zealand also goes UNSOLD.

A Gunarathna the man who lit the stadium ablaze on Sunday is picked by MI.

He goes to his home franchise SRH.

The Hyderabad pacer Mohammad Siraj is up next.

Kanishk Seth also finds no buyers.

Akhil Herwadkar the Mumbai opener goes unsold.

Ben Laughlin finds a buyer in the form of the Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 30 Lakhs

David Wiese is back in the auction.

Darren Bravo us back in the auction as well. He goes UNSOLD.

The Daredevils have gone for Navdeep Saini for Rs. 10 lakhs and get him for that amount.

Praveen Dubey is bought by the RCB.

Imran Tahir, currently ranked Number One in the world, is back in the auction. He remains UNSOLD.

Pragyan Ojha also does not find any buyers. Remains UNSOLD.

Ishant Sharma is also a part of this accelerated auction process and goes UNSOLD again.

He is picked by the Kolkata Knight Riders.

Nathan Coulter-Nile, who played for the Daredevils last year, is up next.

Kyle Abbott remains UNSOLD.

Jonny Bairstow does not find any buyers as well.

Irfan Pathan goes unsold once again.

Chris Jordan- ignored in the morning session, picked by the Sunrisers in the afternoon session.

Sean Abbott is back and goes UNSOLD again.

Saurabh Tiwary is up next and he goes to the Mumbai Indians for Rs. 30 lakhs.

He goes to GL.

Jason Roy, another opening batsman is also back in the mix.

Guptill who was the first player in the auction in the morning, goes to the KXIP.

Martin Guptill is back in the auction.

The franchises pick the players they would want to feature back in the auction and we are underway here.

After a pulsating morning session, we are back for the accelerated auction in the afternoon session.

Post the lunch break, it will be interesting to see who the franchise go for. Will Martin Guptill get a buyer? Will Jason Roy be picked? There is still a lot to look forward to from the auction. Stay tuned for all the updates.

Murugan Ashwin, who was impressive for the RPS last year, was also picked by the franchise as was Aditya Tare, who joined an already big group of wicket-keepers.

The big talking point for the Daredevils so far has been the purchase of Kagiso Rabada and Pat Cummins. The former is among the best bowlers in the current generation while the latter has done well in the Big Bash League.

That concludes what has been a frenetic session of auctioneering with most of the favoured players earning buyers while the rest remaining unsold.

The last player of the morning session is Rahul Sharma and he is UNSOLD.

Nathan Lyon is up next and he joins the UNSOLD club.

Akhila Dananjaya is next and he too finds no buyer.