Top 10 players with greatest multiples of their base price in the IPL auction history

Varun Chakravarthy was the most expensive uncapped in the auction this time around.

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The Indian Premier League (IPL) auction is a huge opportunity for the unknown players to get huge bids. Most of the times, one or two uncapped players manage to bag a huge amount in the event and this time it was Varun Chakravarthy from Tamil Nadu. He came into the auction with the base price of Rs 20 lakhs and generated a lot of interest among five teams before the Kings XI Punjab ended up picking him for a massive amount of Rs 8.4 Crore.

The final price which the mystery spinner raked in was 42 times compared to his base price. This is the second highest number in terms of the multiples of the base price in the IPL auction history. Murugan Ashwin is at the top of this list as he was snapped up by the now-defunct Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) for an amount 45 times of his base price in 2016.

The RPS had paid him Rs 4.5 crore after an intense bidding war from a reserve price of Rs 10 lakhs. Varun equalled Deepak Hooda in this aspect as the latter was bought by the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) for Rs 4.2 crore and is still playing for them.

Here’s the detail list:

NameSeasonBase PriceTeamAuctioned PriceMultiple
Murugan Ashwin201610 Lakhs INRRPS4.50 crore INR45
Deepak Hooda201610 Lakhs INRSRH4.20 crore INR42
Varun Chakravarthy201920 Lakhs INRKXIP8.40 crore INR42
Karun Nair201610 Lakhs INRDD4.00crore INR40
Nathu Singh201610 Lakhs INRMI3.20crore INR32
Chris Morris201320,000 USDCSK625,000 USD31.25
KrishnappaGowtham201820 Lakhs INRRR6.20 crore INR31
T Natarajan201710 Lakhs INRKXIP3.00 crore INR30
Pawan Negi201630 Lakhs INRDD8.50crore INR28.33333
Shreyas Iyer201510 Lakhs INRDD2.60crore INR26

What about IPL 2019 Auction?

As far as the IPL 2019 Auction is concerned, Varun Chakravarthy was the clear winner while Mumbai’s Shivam Dube followed him. The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Mumbai Indians (MI) fought gamely to grab his services and the former team won the battle. Dube was signed up by the Virat Kohli-led franchise for Rs 5 crores which is 25 times his base price.

The 17-year-old Prabhsimran Singh, Akshdeep Nath and Mohit Sharma are next on the charts who kept their base price in lakhs and then managed to rake in Crores from the teams. The bidding war between RCB, MI and KXIP for the wicketkeeper Prabhsimran was surprising for everyone. KXIP were desperate for a wicketkeeper and they went all guns blazing for him to eventually snap him for Rs 4.8 crore, 24 times his base price.

The likes of Jaydev Unadkat, Carlos Brathwaite, Shimron Hetmyer among many were also the talk of the town. But the uncapped players stole the limelight hands down in the auction this time around.

Here’s the list:

NameTeamCapped/UncappedBase PriceAuction PriceMultiple
Varun ChakravarthyKXIPUncapped20Lakhs INR8.40crore INR42
ShivamDubeRCBUncapped20Lakhs INR5.00crore INR25
PrabSimran SinghKXIPUncapped20Lakhs INR4.80crore INR24
AkshdeepNathRCBUncapped20Lakhs INR3.60crore INR18
Mohit SharmaCSKCapped50Lakhs INR5.00crore INR10
ShimronHetmyerRCBCapped50Lakhs INR4.20crore INR8.4
Prayas Ray BarmanRCBUncapped20Lakhs INR1.50crore INR7.5
BarinderSranMICapped50Lakhs INR3.40crore INR6.8
Carlos BrathwaiteKKRCapped75Lakhs INR5.00crore INR6.67
Nicholas PooranKXIPCapped75Lakhs INR4.20crore INR5.6
JaydevUnadkatRRCapped1.50crore INR8.40crore INR5.6

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