Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer, who were the captains of Delhi Capitals, Lucknow Super Giants and Kolkata Knight Riders respectively, were not retained. All three players are in the list of players with base price of Rs 2 crore. Apart from this, it also has Ravichandran Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal, who have been released by Rajasthan Royals.

Mohammed Shami, who has not played any cricket since the 2023 ODI World Cup final in November due to multiple injuries, also has a base price of Rs 2 crore. He has been released by Gujarat Titans before the auction.

Apart from this, Khaleel Ahmed, Deepak Chahar, Venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan, Ishan Kishan, Mukesh Kumar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Prasidh Krishna, T Natarajan, Devdutt Padikkal, Krunal Pandya, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj and Umesh Yadav, the base price of all these players is also only Rs 2 crore.

Prithvi Shaw and Sarfaraz Khan, who were not bought by anyone last season, have registered themselves at the base price of Rs 75 lakh.

Mitchell Starc, who was the most expensive player in the history of IPL auction, is also among the players with a base price of Rs 2 crore. The name of its leader Joffra Archer is also included in it. England fast bowler James Anderson, who has not played a T20 match since 2014 and has never been a part of the IPL, has put his name up for auction at a base price of Rs 1.25 crore. Let us tell you that Anderson had retired from international cricket this year.

Each franchise can field a maximum of 25 players, which means there are 204 spots available in the auction after retaining 46 players from the ten teams from last season.