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Punjab Kings IPL Auction Squad 2024: Punjab Kings, known for often making big purchases and buying players at high prices in the IPL auctions, did not turn out to be too expensive this time. However, the franchise bid on several players and bought some at high prices. The franchise, owned by Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia, splurged the most on Indian all-rounder Harshal Patel at Rs 11.75 crore, which was a surprise. Apart from this, he also gave a huge amount to Chris Woakes and Riley Russo.
Punjab Kings, who are looking for their first title, retained 17 players before the auction. In such a situation, he needed 8 players to complete the team of 25. For this, he had also made an auction purse of around 30 crore rupees. The franchise could not spend their full purse but bought 8 players to complete the squad.
Players bought at auction
Harshal Patel (India) – 11.75 crores, Riley Russo (South Africa) – 8 crores, Chris Woakes (England) – 4.20 crores, Tanay Thiagarajan (India) – 20 lakhs, Vishwanath Pratap Singh (India) – 20 lakhs, Ashutosh Sharma ( India)-20 lakhs, Shashank Singh (India)-20 lakhs, Prince Chaudhary (India)-20 lakhs.
Kar 𝐇🌸𝐫 Maidaan Fateh!
All Hail King Patel! 👑#IPL2024Auction #SaddaPunjab #PunjabKings #JazbaHaiPunjabi pic.twitter.com/94ospJ0Gfw
— Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL) December 19, 2023
In total, Punjab Kings bought 8 players in this auction and spent Rs 24.95 crores. The team has a total of 25 players including 8 foreign players as per the rules. Even after this auction, the franchisee had Rs 4.15 crore left.
The Punjab team after the auction
Shikhar Dhawan (captain), Jonny Bairstow, Prabhasimran Singh (wicketkeeper), Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Sikandar Raza, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingston, Atharv Tede, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis, Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar, , Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kawarappa, Shivam Singh, Harshal Patel, Chris Vokes, Riley Russo, Tanya Thiagarajan, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Shashank Singh, Prince Chaudhary.
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