Most Expensive Players In The History Of IPL – IPL 2024 Most Costly Player: The auction of players for the 2024 season of IPL is being held in Dubai. In every IPL auction, the highest bid is made for some player.
In the last few seasons, foreign players have dominated. Every IPL team has been seen spending more money on buying foreign players. If we talk about the history of the IPL auction, money has been showered on some or the other player.
Talking about the IPL 2023 auction, many foreign players have made expensive bids that season too and it is expected that this time the previous records may also be broken.
In the ‘Most Expensive Players In The History Of IPL Auction 2024’ article, we are going to talk about the most expensive players in the history of IPL auctions.
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Most Expensive Players In The History Of IPL Auction 2024 History:
Australian captain Pat Cummins created history in the IPL auction. Cummins has become the second most expensive-selling player in IPL history.
Sunrisers Hyderabad bought the Australian captain with a base price of Rs 2 crore for Rs 20.5 crore. Mitchell Starc was bought by KKR for Rs 24.75 crore (about 2,982,000 US dollars), which is the most expensive player to date.
10 Most Expensive Players In The History Of IPL:
| List Of Most Expensive Players In The History Of IPL | ||||
| Sr. No. | Player Name | Rupees | Team | Year |
| 1 | Mitchell Starc | 24.75 Cr | KKR | 2024 |
| 2 | Pat Cummins | 20.5 Cr | SRH | 2024 |
| 3 | Sam Curran | 18.5 Cr | PK | 2023 |
| 4 | Cameron Green | 17.5 Cr | MI | 2023 |
| 5 | Ben Stokes | 16.25 Cr | CSK | 2023 |
| 6 | Chris Morris | 16.25 Cr | RR | 2021 |
| 7 | Nicholas Pooran | 16 Cr | LSG | 2023 |
| 8 | Yuvraj Singh | 16 Cr | DC | 2015 |
| 9 | Pat Cummins | 15.5 Cr | KKR | 2020 |
| 10 | Ishan Kishan | 15.25 Cr | MI | 2022 |
Most of the foreign players have dominated this list. Talking about the top 10, only two Indians Yuvraj Singh and Ishan Kishan are included in it.
Apart from this, the most expensive bid has been made among all the foreign players. The list of the 10 most expensive players in IPL history is given below-
Most Expensive Players From Previous IPL Auctions:
Now, we’ll learn about the top 5 most expensive player in ipl 2024
| Year | Player | Cost |
| 2008 | MS Dhoni (CSK) | $1.5 million |
| 2009 | Kevin Pietersen (RCB), Andrew Flintoff (CSK) | $1.55 million |
| 2010 | Shane Bond (KKR), Kieron Pollard (MI) | $750,000 |
| 2011 | Gautam Gambhir (KKR) | $2.4 million |
| 2012 | Ravindra Jadeja (CSK) | $2 million |
| 2013 | Glenn Maxwell (MI) | $1 million |
| 2014 | Yuvraj Singh (RCB) | 14 Cr |
| 2015 | Yuvraj Singh (DC) | 16 Cr |
| 2016 | Shane Watson (RCB) | 9.5 Cr |
| 2017 | Ben Stokes (RPS) | 14.5 Cr |
| 2018 | Ben Stokes (RR) | 12.5 Cr |
| 2019 | Jaydev Unadkat (RR), V Chakravarthy (PBKS) | 8.4 Cr |
| 2020 | Pat Cummins (KKR) | 15.5 Cr |
| 2021 | Chris Morris (RR) | 16.25 Cr |
| 2022 | Ishan Kishan (MI) | 15.25 Cr |
| 2023 | Sam Curran (PBKS) | 18.5 Cr |
| 2024 | Mitchell Starc (KKR) | 24.75 Cr |
In the first season of IPL in 2008, former Indian team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was the most expensive player, he was bought by Chennai Super Kings for $1.5 million.
After that, in the year 2009, Kevin Pietersen was bought by RCB and Andrew Flintoff was bought by CSK for $1.55 million.
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