IPL 2020 auction: Australian cricketers are on a high!

Kolkata Pat Cummins having missed a couple of IPL seasons came back with a bang by bagging the highest bid at the 2020 Auction hereThe Aussie pacer among seven players in top bracket of R2 crore base price was initially fought over by Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers but Kolkata Knight Riders butted in to grab him at a whopping Rs 155 crore Its the highest any franchise has paid for an overseas players and is Rs 50 lakh short of the alltime auction record of Rs 16 crore that Delhi Daredevils paid for Yuvraj Singh in 2015I thought he was the best player at the auction Brendon McCullum KKRs new head coach gushed Hes really developed as a cricketer over these last few years and the body has become robust That he is now the vicecaptain of the Australia team is a mark of that developmentBut why did they enter the fray so late when the bidding was at Rs 15 crore We wouldve come in earlier but it was going so fast between DC and RCB smiled KKR Managing Director Venky MysoreWe were determined to get him and went in when we got the first opportunity Its great that Morgan and Cummins are both backThe bidding over Glenn Maxwell began on a few seconds of uneasy silence before it all picked up to have the Aussie allrounder going to Kings XI Punjab for a whopping Rs 1075 crore Maxwell who has taken an indefinite break from the game to get over mental health issues was fought for by the Punjab franchise and Delhi Capitals for whom he turned out last seasonThese things come and go Im sure hes coming out of it explained Kings XI CEO Satish Menon We have been tracking him a lot and were sure hes back in his zoneHe made it clear that Maxwells prowess as a player did override everything else He was very much in our radar we needed one of those Xfactor players The middleorder was a concern for usHes been with us in the past so he knows the layout of the team We certainly wanted him We would have filled that slot at any costTop five most expensive buysPat Cummins Rs 1550 Cr KKRGlenn Maxwell Rs 1075 Cr KXIPChris Morris Rs 10 Cr RCBSheldon Cottrell Rs 850 Cr KXIPNathan CoulterNile Rs 8 Cr MIDid you knowCummins Maxi missed last IPLPat Cummins the IPL auctionrsquos biggest fetcher on Thursday and his Australian teammate Glenn Maxwell had missed the last IPL While an injury ruled out Cummins from playing for Mumbai Indians Maxwell had withdrawn before the auctionList of players bought at auctionChennai Super Kings Piyush Chawla Sam Curran Josh Hazlewood R Sai KishoreDelhi Capitals Shimron Hetmyer Marcus Stoinis Alex Carey Jason Roy Chris Woakes Mohit Sharma Tushar Deshpande Lalit YadavKings XI Punjab Glenn Maxwell Sheldon Cottrell Chris Jordan Ravi Bishnoi Prabhsimran Singh Deepak Hooda Jimmy Neesham Tejinder Dhillon Ishan PorelKolkata Knight Riders Pat Cummins Eoin Morgan Varun Chakaravarthy Tom Banton Rahul Tripathi Chris Green Nikhil Naik Pravin Tambe M SiddharthMumbai Indians Nathan CoulterNile Chris Lynn Saurabh Tiwary Digvijay Deshmukh Prince Balwant Rai Singh Mohsin KhanRajasthan Royals Robin Uthappa Jaydev Unadkat Kartik Tyagi Andrew Tye Tom Curran David Miller Yashasvi Jaiswal Anuj Rawat Oshane Thomas Aniruddh Joshi Akash SinghRoyal Challengers Bangalore Chris Morris Aaron Finch Kane Richardson Dale Steyn Isuru Udana Shahbaz Ahmed Joshua Philip Pavan DeshpandeSunrisers Hyderabad Mitchell Marsh Priyam Garg Virat Singh Fabien Allen B Sandeep Sanjay Yadav Abdul SamadCatch up on all the latest sports news and updates hereAlso download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates