Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore came into the 2020 IPL auction needing to fill 12 slots and a salary limit of Rs 27.90 crore.
One hour into the auction in Kolkata, the team had spent Rs 14.4 crore on just 2 players - Aussie T20 skipper Aaron Finch and South African fast bowler Chris Morris. Morris, in fact, was among the most expensive players on the day, picking up a cool paycheque of Rs 10 crore.
In the last round of the auction, RCB made two more big buys paying Rs 4 crore for Kane Richardson and Rs 2 crore for Dale Steyn. Steyn, in fact, played the 2019 IPL with the franchise after coming in as an injury replacement. He was however released by the player in the off season.
IPL Auction 2020 - Royal Challengers Bangalore Full Squad
- Virat Kohli
- Moeen Ali
- Yuzvendra Chahal
- Parthiv Patel
- Mohammed Siraj
- Umesh Yadav
- Pawan Negi
- Devdutt Padikkal
- Gurkeerat Singh Mann
- Washington Sundar
- Shivam Dube
- Navdeep Saini
- AB de Villiers
- Christopher Morris - Rs 10 crore
- Aaron Finch - Rs 4.40 crore
- Kane Richardson - Rs 4 crore
- Dale Steyn - Rs 2 crore
- Isuru Udana - Rs 50 lakh
- Shahbaz Ahamad - Rs 20 lakh
- Joshua Philippe - Rs 20 lakh
- Pavan Deshpande - Rs 20 lakh
(Players bought in 2020 IPL auction in bold)
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