Having the biggest of cricket stars under the hammer, this year's auction looks promising to be the biggest in IPL history. Behindwoods will bring you all the latest of updates from the auction.
6: 16 pm
Kings XI punjab buys Ankit Singh for Rs 3 crore
6:08 pm
Avesh Khan is sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 70 lakhs
6: 04 pm
Navdeep Saini is sold to RCB for Rs 3 crore
6:02 pm
Sunrisers Hyderabad buys Syed Khaleel Ahmed for Rs 3 crore
5: 56 pm
Aniket Choudhary sold for Rs 30 lakhs. RCB buys him
5: 51 pm
Basil Thampi bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 95 lakhs
5:50 pm
T. Natarajan is sold to Sunrisers for Rs 40 lakhs
5: 48 pm
Sunrisers Hyderabad buys Siddharth Kaul for Rs 3.8 crore
5: 44 pm
Kulwant Khejroliya bought by RCB for Rs 85 lakhs
5: 35 pm
Ishan Kishan bought by Mumbai Indians for Rs 6.2 crore
5: 28 pm
Rajasthan Royals buys Jofra Archer for Rs 7.2 crore
5: 20 pm
Darcy Short taken by Rajasthan Royals for Rs 4.4 crore
5: 13 pm
Nitish Rana brought by KKR for Rs 3.4 crore
5: 10 pm
Krunal Pandya is retained by Mumbai Indians with their RTM card for Rs 8.8 crore. His base price was started at Rs 40 lakhs.
5: 04 pm
Kamlesh Nagarkoti is bought by Kolkatta Knight Riders for Rs 3.2 crore
5:00 pm
Harshal Patel is sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 20 lakhs
4:59 pm
Vijay Shankar is sold for Rs 3.2 crore and will be playing for Delhi Daredevils
4: 56 pm
Deepak Hooda Retained by Sunrisers Hyderabad by RTM
4: 50 pm
Rahul Tewatia bought by Delhi Daredevils for Rs 3 crores
4:18 pm
Manan Vohra is sold to RCB for Rs 1.1 crore
4:14 pm
Rahul Tripathi is sold to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 3.4 crore
4:07 pm
Mayank Agarwal is sold to Kings XI Punjab for Rs 1 crore
4:05 pm
Ricky Bhui is sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 20 lakhs
4:04 pm
Ishank Jaggi is sold to KKR for Rs 20 lakhs
4:03 pm
Shubhman Gill is sold to KKR for Rs 1.8 crore
3: 58 pm
Suryakumar Yadav is sold to Mumbai Indians for Rs 3.2 crore
3:53 pm
KKR uses their RTM to retain Kuldeep Yadav for Rs 5.8 crore
3:44 pm
RCB uses their RTM to retain Yuzvendra Chahal for Rs 6 crore
3:39 pm
Mishi Amit is sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 4 crore
3:36 pm
Sun Risers use their RTM to retain Rashid Khan for Rs 9 crore
3:27 pm
Karn Sharma is sold to CSK for Rs 5 crore
3:20 pm
Imran Tahir is sold to CSK for Rs 1 crore
3:19 pm
KKR usees their RTM to retain Piyush Chawla for Rs 4.2 crores
3:04 pm
Delhi Daredevils use their RTM and retain Kagiso Rabada for Rs 4.2 crore
3:04 pm
Mumbai Indians buys Mustafizur Rahman for Rs 2.2 crore
3:00 pm
Delhi Daredevils use RTM and retain Mohammed Sami for Rs 3 crore
02:39 pm
Rajasthan Royals takes Jos Butler for Rs 4.4 crore.
02:34 pm
Ambati Rayudu taken by CSK for Rs 2.2 crore
02:30 pm
Sanju Samson is sold to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 8 crore
02:23 pm
KKR used their RTM to buy Robin Uthappa for Rs 6.4 crore
02:16 pm
Dinesh Karthik is sold to Kolkatta Knight Riders for Rs 7.4 crores
02:11 pm
Jonny Bairstow remains unsold
02:09 pm
Wriddhiman Saha sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 5 crore
02:02 pm
Parthiv Patel remains unsold
02:01 pm
Auction resumes after lunch break
12:53 pm
Delhi Daredevils gets Colin Mundro for Rs 1.9 crore
12:50 pm
Sunrisers Hyderabad takes Yusuf Pathan for Rs 1.9 crore
12: 46 pm
James Faulkner remains unsold
12:43 pm
Kedar Jadhav sold to CSK for Rs 7.8 crore
12: 38 pm
Shane Watson sold to CSK for Rs 4 crore
12:29 pm
Chris Woakes is sold to RCB for Rs 7.4 crore
12:12 pm
Manish Pande sold for Rs 11 crore to Sunrisers Hyderabad after a long bid
12:05 pm
Hashim Amla remains unsold
12:04 pm
Chris Lynn is sold to KKR for Rs 9.6 crore
11:57 am
Jason Roy sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 1.5 crore
11:55 am
RCB gets Brendon Mccullum for Rs 3.6 crore
11:54 am
Aaron Finch sold to Kings XI Punjab for Rs 6.2 crore
11:46 am
Kings XI Punjab uses RTM to retain David Millar for Rs 3 crore
11:40 am
Murali Vijay remains unsold
11:36 am
KL Rahul taken by Kings XI Punjab for Rs 11 crores
11:35 am
Kings XI Punjab gets Karun Nair for Rs 5.6 crore
11:22 am
Kings XI Punjab get Yuvraj Singh for Rs 2.0 crore
11:20 am
Sunrisers Hyderabad gets Kane Williamson for Rs 3.0 crore
11:017 am
Chennai Super Kings gets Dwayne Bravo for Rs 6.4 crore
11:12 am
Gautam Gambir sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 2.8 crore
11:03 am
Delhi Daredevils gets Glenn Maxwell for Rs 9 crore
11:01 am
Shakib Al Hasan sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 2 crore
11:01 am
CSK gets the spinner Harbhajan Singh for Rs 2 crore
10:44 am
Kolkata Knight Riders has won Mitchell Starc for Rs 9.4 crore.
10:42 am
The Rajasthan Royals have bagged Ajinkya Rahane for Rs 4 crore
10:40 am
Faf du Plessis taken by CSK for Rs 1.6 crore
10:38 am
No team showed interest in Chris Gayle. He went unsold! This is the first shocker of IPL auction!
10:36 am
Ben Stokes taken by Rajasthan Royals for Rs 12.5 crore.
10:35 am
Kieron Pollard – Goes to Mumbai Indians for Rs 5.4 crore
10:20 am
Ravichandran Ashwin sold for Rs 7.60 crore to Kings XI Punjab
10:17 am
Sunrisers Hyderabad takes Shikhar Dhawan for Rs 520 crore in IPL 2018 auction
10:14 am
Shikhar Dhawan is the first player to go on hammer
Total number of players:
The original pool of 1122 players has been cropped to 578 cricketers - 360 are Indian (62 capped and 298 uncapped) - and the rest of 218 are overseas players (182 capped, 34 uncapped and two Associates players)