IPL 2019 Auction: This mystery spinner from Tamil Nadu was sold for 42 times higher than his base price

Varun Chakravarthy from Tamil Nadu who played in Tamil Nadu Premier League for Madurai Panthers and was sold in IPL for 42 times higher than his base price to Kings XI Punjab. His base price was 20 lakhs but Lions den brought him in 8.4 crores.

Jaydev Unadkat was also sold for 8.4 crores to Rajasthan Royals, while Mohammed Shami was sold to 4.8 crores to Kings XI Punjab.

Shimron Hetmyer and Carlos Braithwaite is the most expensive players sold till now in the 2019 IPL auction being held at Jaipur, Hetmyer was purchased by Royal challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders took Braithwaite in their team. Yuvraj Singh left unsold, while Hanuma Vihari was sold for 2 crores to Delhi Capitals. The shock has come for the cricket lovers in the country after no team opted for Yuvraj who had a bad season last year.

Axar Patel who played for Kings XI Punjab last year was purchased by Delhi Capital for 5 crores this year.

Hugh Edmeades has over 30 years of experience of conducting auctions all over the world starting from 1984, he replaced Richard Madley as the gavel master. Indian Premier League released a new video of Hugh welcoming everyone to the auctions in Jaipur. This year’s IPL auction has been shifted to Jaipur from Bengaluru. The auction will start from 3 pm and will go on till 9 pm.

The outgoing IPL auctioneer Richard Madley in a sad tweet said, “Thank You for your kind wishes following the news that I am to be replaced as the Indian Premier League auctioneer, To be clear this was not my decision. I was not invited to conduct IPL auction by BCCI, In cricket terms I have been.”