IPL 2016 Cricket: Full Teams And Players List After Indian Premier League Auction

The 2016 Indian Premier League season took a step closer on Saturday, when the full squads were revealed for all eight teams following the annual auction in Bangalore. With two new teams entering the fray for this season’s Twenty20 cricket spectacle, the bidding process for those players still on the shelf was eagerly anticipated.

After last year’s runner-up Chennai Super Kings, as well as Rajasthan Royals, were suspended from the IPL for two years on charges of illegal betting and spot-fixing, franchises were awarded to Pune and Rajkot. And it was a former Rajasthan player who became the most expensive buy in this year’s auction. Australian all-rounder Shane Watson, who just last month struck a century in the final Twenty20 international against India, was sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for a massive $1.4 million, five times his base price.

In Bangalore he will join an already star-studded cast, including India Test captain Virat Kohli, South Africa skipper AB de Villiers and the world’s most renowned exponent of the T20 game, West Indian Chris Gayle.

The biggest story of the auction, though, concerned the uncapped Indian all-rounder Pawan Negi. Just 24 hours after being included in India’s squads for the upcoming Asia Cup and World T20, the 23-year-old, who previously represented Chennai, became a millionaire when being snapped up by Delhi Daredevils for $1.27 million. In doing so, he became the most lucrative Indian in the auction, surpassing fellow million-maker Yuvraj Singh, who went to Sunrisers Hyderabad, and Mohit Sharma, who will turn out for Kings XI Punjab when the IPL season gets underway on April 9.

As well as Watson, Negi and Yuvraj, the fourth million-dollar man at the auction was surprisingly South African all-rounder Chris Morris. The 28-year-old, who has previously turned out for Chennai Super Kings, will join Negi in Delhi after being bought for seven times his base price, at a little over $1 million.

There were some surprises too in the list of players who went unsold. While Australia opening batsman Aaron Finch did get sold to Rajot franchise Gujarat Lions, Martin Guptill, who has recently been in fine form with the bat for New Zealand, and Usman Khawaja, who just made his T20I debut for Australia, were left on the shelf.

Newcomer Rising Pune Super Giants did flex their muscles, spending big to land Australian all-rounder Mitchell Marsh as well as unheralded Indian spinner Murugan Ashwin. One-time England international and veteran IPL man Kevin Pietersen was another player to be snapped up by Pune. The trio join a list of player in Pune that already includes India limited-overs captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Australia Test and one-day international skipper Steve Smith.

The ninth season of IPL will see all eight teams play each other twice in a round-robin format, before the top four go onto the playoffs where they will compete to land the trophy in the final on May 29.

IPL 2016 Team and players (listed in descending order of salary)

Royal Challengers Bangalore
Virat Kohli
Chris Gayle
Shane Watson
AB de Villiers
Mitchell Starc
David Wiese
Sreenath Aravind
Kane Richardson
Stuart Binny
Varun Aaron
Kedar Jadhav
Mandeep Singh
Adam Milne
Sarfaraz Khan
Samuel Badree
Travis Head
Harshal Patel
Praveen Dubey
Abu Nechim
Vikramjeet Malik
Yuzvendra Chahal
Iqbal Abdulla
Akshay Karnewar
Sachin Baby
Vikas Tokas

Kolkata Knight Riders
Gautam Gambhir
Sunil Narine
Robin Uthappa
Piyush Chawla
Yusuf Pathan
Morne Morkel
Shakib Al Hasan
Umesh Yadav
Manish Pandey
Jaydev Unadkat
Ankit Rajpoot
Chris Lynn
John Hastings
Jason Holder
Suryakumar Yadav
Andre Russell
Brad Hogg
Kuldeep Yadav
Colin Munro
Rajagopal Sathish
Sheldon Jackson
Manan Ajay Sharma

Delhi Daredevils
Pawan Negi
Chris Morris
Nathan Coulter-Nile
Mohammad Shami
Carlos Brathwaite
Sanju Samson
Karun Nair
Zaheer Khan
Amit Mishra
Quinton de Kock
Shreyas Iyer
JP Duminy
Rishabh Pant
Mayank AgarwalImran
TahirShahbaz
NadeemSaurabh
TiwaryJoel Paris
Albie Morkel
Sam Billings
Jayant Yadav
Pawan Suyal
Chama Milind
Pratyush Singh
Mahipal Lomror
Khaleel Ahmed
Akhil Herwadkar

Kings XI Punjab
David Miller
Mitchell Johnson
Mohit Sharma
Glenn Maxwell
Manan Vohra
Murali Vijay
Rishi Dhawan
Wriddhiman Saha
Shaun Marsh
Kyle Abbott
Gurkeerat Singh
Sandeep Sharma
K.C. Cariappa
Axar Patel
Marcus Stoinis
Nikhil Naik
Shardul Thakur
Farhaan Behardien
Anureet Singh
Pardeep Sahu
Armaan Jaffer
Swapnil Singh

Mumbai Indians
Rohit Sharma
Lasith Malinga
Kieron Pollard
Harbhajan Singh
Corey Anderson
Ambati Rayudu
Jos Buttler
Nathu Singh
Vinay Kumar
Tim Southee
Krunal Pandya
Parthiv Patel
Kishore Kamath
Jasprit Bumrah
Lendl Simmons
Unmukt Chand
Mitchell McClenaghan
Marchant de Lange
Shreyas Gopal
Siddhesh Lad
Akshay Wakhare
Nitish Rana
Hardik Pandya
J Suchith
Jitesh Sharma
Deepak Punia

Sunrisers Hyderabad
Shikhar Dhawan
Yuvraj Singh
Ashish Nehra
David Warner
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Deepak Hooda
Trent Boult
Karn Sharma
Eoin Morgan
Mustafizur Rahman
Barinder Sran
Aditya Tare
Moises Henriques
KL Rahul
Parvez Rasool
Kane Williamson
Ben Cutting
Naman Ojha
Vijay Shankar
Abhimanyu Mithun
Ashish Reddy
Tirumalasetti Suman
Bipul Sharma
Ricky Bhui
Siddharth Kaul

Rising Pune Warriors
MS Dhoni
Ajinkya Rahane
Ravichandran Ashwin
Steve Smith
Mitchell Marsh
Murugan Ashwin
Faf du Plessis
Ishant Sharma
Kevin Pietersen
Irfan Pathan
Thisara Perera
Rajat Bhatia
Ashok Dinda
Scott Boland
Adam Zampa
Peter Handscomb
Rudra Pratap Singh
Ishwar Pandey
Ankit Sharma
Ankush Bains
Jaskaran Singh
Deepak Chahar
Baba Aparajith

Gujarat Lions
Suresh Raina
Ravindra Jadeja
Brendon McCullum
James Faulkner
Dwayne Bravo
Praveen Kumar
Dwayne Smith
Dale Steyn
Dinesh Karthik
Dhawal Kulkarni
Aaron FinchEklavya
DwivediAndrew
TyeIshan Kishan
Jaydev Shah
Shadab Jakati
Pravin Tambe
Pradeep Sangwan
Amit Mishra
Shivil Kaushik
Sarabjit Ladda
Akshdeep Nath
Umang Sharma
Paras Dogra