IPL Auction 2016 : Date & Time

IPL Auction 2016 Date, Time & Players List

Indian Premier League 2016 season will be the 9th edition of highly lucarative and popular India Twenty20 domestic competition which will be taking place after the T20 World Cup in India. While the IPL Auction for 2016 season will take place on 06 February 2016 Bengaluru. BCCI, the IPL governing body has announced the list of players set to go under the hammer in the auction here are all the details your want to know about 2016 Auction.

IPL Auction 2016: 6 February 2016

Auction is set to take place on 6 February 2016. The trading window and player draft has been completed with teams retaining and releasing players before the Auction. Going into the IPL Auction 2016 week BCCI and IPL has released the list of players available in the auction.

Team Budget and Spending: All teams started with Rs. 66 crore budget for 2016 IPL season but with retaining players they have already spent part of it. here is the details on what is left for every team to spend in IPL auction 2016.

IPL Auction 2016 Rules & Regulations

RULE	DETAILS
Date & Time	6 February 2016 in Bengaluru
Participating Teams	Pune and Rajkot are added for the next two seasons as Chennai & Rajasthan are suspended for 2 seasons
Players Retained	Every franchise can retain players from the previous squad (Pune & Rajkot drafted 5 players each from Chennai & Bangelore last years squads)
Spending Cap	$5 million
Minimum Salary	$50,000
Under-22 players min Salary	$22,000

Players List For IPL Auction 2016: 351 players will be available in the 2016 Auction and around 116 players are expected to get contracts with the teams. Number of players including  Ishant Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Shane Watson and Kevin Pietersen are the marquee players available with the base price of Rs. 2 corers. Below is the list of marquee players available in the IPL auction.

Marquee Players:

Here is the list of players who have opted to set their base prices themselves.

1. Ishant Sharma (Base price: 2 crores)
2. Shane Watson (Base price: 2 crores)
3. Kevin Pietersen (Base price: 2 crores)
4. Yuvraj Singh (Base price: 2 crores)
5. Dale Steyn (Base price: 1.5 crores)
6. Aaron Finch (Base price: 1 crores)
7. Martin Guptill (Base price: 50 lakh )
8. Dwayne Smith (Base price: 50 lakh )

IPL Auction 2016 Players List (Selective list)

NO#	Foreign Players	India Players
1	Kyle Abbott (South Africa)	Yuvraj Singh
2	Samuel Badree (West Indies)	Dinesh Karthik
3	Ben Cutting (Australia)	Stuart Binny
4	Matt Henry (New Zealand)	Irfan Pathan
5	Michael Hussey (Australia)	Dishant Yagnik
6	Christopher Morris (South Africa)	Ashish Nehra
7	Kane Richardson (Australia)	Rahul Tewatia
8	Dwayne Smith (West Indies)	Pratyush Singh
9	Tim Southee (New Zealand)	Ankit Nagendra Sharma
10	Juan Theron (South Africa)	Dinesh Salunkhe
11	Andrew Tye (Australia)	Pardeep Sahu
12	Shane Watson (Australia)	Ishwar Chandra Pandey
13	Dale Steyn	Abhishek Nayar
14	George Bailey (Australia)	Sagar Vijay Trivedi
15	Beuran Hendricks (South Africa)	Dhawal Kulkarni
16	Thishara Perera (Sri Lanka)	Sanju Samson
17	Ryan ten Doeschate (South Africa)	Mohit Sharma
18	Pat Cummins	Rahul Sharma
19	Colin Munro (New Zealand)	Baba Aparajith
20	Alex Hales (England)	Ankush Bains
21	Ben Hilfenhaus (Australia)	Rajat Bhatia
22	Ravi Bopara (England)	Eklavya Dwivedi
23	Kevin Pietersen (England)	Deepak Hooda
24	Aiden Blizzard	Pravin Tambe
25	Josh Hazlewood (Australia)	Barinder Singh Saran
26	Aaron Finch (Australia)	Parvinder Awana
27	Johan Botha (South Africa)	Shivam Sharma
28	Darren Sammy (West Indies)	Vikramjeet Malik
29	Angelo Mathews (Sri Lanka)
30	Rilee Rossouw (South AFrica)
31	James Neesham (New Zealand)

Many more players will be added to the Auction list when teams have confirmed their retained/Released players. Released players will automatically go into the auction list. BCCI will announce the final list of players in auction before the auction take place on 6 February 2016. We will update the post right here as soon as any news of retained and released players comes out.

The IPL auction - What you should know, and what you can expect

 On Friday India announced their squad for the World T20. While the chairman of selectors has started to take questions to explain his panel's choices nowadays, the process is still not even half a patch on the grand spectacle of team selections: the IPL auction. A total of 351 players will be put up for sale. Teams will fight over the players in public, they will reject some because they have either valued themselves at a base price that is too high or they are not considered important enough. Only a maximum of 116 out of the 351 will be bought. A minimum of 28 must be picked up. Not more than 36 non-Indians can be bought.

There will be steals, there will be ridiculous amounts of money thrown around - at least seemingly - inexplicably, you won't be able to ask the franchises to make sense of it... but this, by the virtue of the sheer money involved, will draw the interest of many, not least those who will be playing cricket on the same day: New Zealand v Australia, South Africa v England, the quarter-finals of the Ranji Trophy, and the two T20 leagues in the Gulf.

Of big interest will be how the two new teams - Gujarat Lions and Rising Pune Supergiants - and Delhi Daredevils, who have once again decided to overhaul their squad at the auction, go.

Marquee players

There are nine marquee players: Ishant Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Shane Watson, Kevin Pietersen, Yuvraj Singh, Dale Steyn, Aaron Finch, Martin Guptill and Dwayne Smith. Only five of them have set their base price at Rs 2 crore*. Steyn is happy to begin his auction at Rs 1.5 crore, Finch at Rs 1 crore, and Guptill and Smith want to see how high they can soar from the starting point of Rs 50 lakh. Seven players outside the marquee list have their base price at Rs 2 crore: Michael Hussey, Dhawal Kulkarni, Kane Richardson, Sanju Samson, Dinesh Karthik, Stuart Binny and Mitchell Marsh. The lowest base price is Rs 10 lakh.

How the teams stack up

This is how the IPL franchises are placed in terms of players retained and purse remaining going into the auction.


Delhi Daredevils
Players retained: 13; five foreigners Auction purse remaining: Rs 37.15 crore
Can buy a maximum 14 players including four non-Indians. Can make do with as few as three players. If Zaheer Khan and Mohammed Shami are both fit by the time the IPL starts, they already have a decent attack with Nathan Coulter-Nile, Amit Mishra, Imran Tahir and Shahbaz Nadeem also retained. It's the batsmen they will be after, to team up with Quinton de Kock, JP Duminy and Shreyas Iyer.

Gujarat Lions
Players picked up at the draft: Five; three foreigners
Auction purse remaining: Rs 27 crore
Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Brendon McCullum, James Faulkner and Dwayne Bravo can be the nucleus of a really strong T20 team, but they will need to build the rest of the squad in just Rs 27 crore. They can't be looking at more than two big-name signings, perhaps a batsman and a bowler each. Their acumen will come through in how they pick the less famous.

Kings XI Punjab
Players retained: 14; four foreigners
Auction purse remaining: Rs 23 crore They have the big-hitting capabilities of Glenn Maxwell, David Miller and Shaun Marsh, but they are in need of big-name bowlers to partner Axar Patel and Mitchell Johnson. Indian batsmen too will be on their agenda. They are likely to vie for Shane Watson and Dale Steyn. Not to mention they released George Bailey, which means they need a new captain.

Kolkata Knight Riders
Players retained: 15; six foreigners
Auction purse remaining: Rs 17.95 crore
Ever since they spent big in 2010, Knight Riders have been a settled unit. Ten of the 11 players that played their last match remain in the squad. Their big loss is Jacques Kallis. They have one allrounder in Andre Russell, but they could go after Shane Watson in a big way if that's the only player they can buy. And they need just one more to constitute an IPL squad.

Mumbai Indians
Players retained: 19; six foreigners
Auction purse remaining: Rs 14.40 crore
The defending champions have retained the XI that won the final. Jasprit Bumrah, another retainee, didn't even play that final. They will be the kids at school who have finished their homework with the potential of disrupting others or putting their heads down and studying extra. They might want to look at a possible back-up for Lasith Malinga, whose fitness cannot always be relied upon.

Rising Pune Supergiants
Players picked up at the draft: Five; two foreigners
Auction purse remaining: Rs 27 crore
Fast bowlers. Bowlers with long run-ups. Yet another MS Dhoni team will go to the selection table looking for fast bowlers. Dale Steyn and Mustafizur Rahman are some of the bigger names they might be interested in, but mostly they will be the ones looking for smart buys just like Lions.

Royal Challengers Bangalore
Players retained: 14; five foreigners
Auction purse remaining: Rs 21.62 crore
What Royal Challengers have: dazzling stroke-makers in AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli; the best white-ball quick in the world, Mitchell Starc; tearaways Adam Milne and Varun Aaron. What Royal Challengers don't have: A title, and a balanced squad. They have a decent amount left in their purse to go in for allrounders and bowlers, and we know money available with Royal Challengers makes for a fun auction. How far will they go for Yuvraj Singh?

Sunrisers Hyderabad
Players retained: 15; five foreigners
Auction purse remaining: Rs 30.15 crore
They have always been short on Indian hitters; the money saved by letting Dale Steyn go could come in handy. They could even just go for a big hitter from outside India. Kevin Pietersen might be high on their list.

*INR 1 crore = INR 100 lakh = INR 10000000 = USD 148 thousand approx
INR 1 lakh = INR 100 thousand = INR 100000 = USD 1480 approx