Highest bid in IPL history: List of most expensive player in IPL history

Highest bid in IPL history: The SportsRush brings you the list of the most expensive players in each of the IPL seasons.

The mega auction of IPL 2022 is underway in Bengaluru. All ten teams of the tournament are fighting hard to make a strong team for the season. IPL auction is certainly one of the most exciting days of the cricket calendar.

While some players’ careers will make a sharp turn, others will go unsold. Suresh Raina went unsold in the first attempt but he may get a deal on the second day.

Players like David Warner and Quinton de Kock went for a lesser price and the bowlers again took the best bids. However, Ishan Kishan created a record in IPL auction 2022 as Mumbai Indians spent in excess of INR 10 crore for the first time in an auction.

Highest bid in IPL history (Updated on December 19, 2023)

In every IPL auction, a certain player gets the highest amount in the auction. Although, spending big does not guarantee success. There have been some incredible flops, whereas some of the players have absolutely justified their price in the auction. In the IPL 2024 auction, Mitchell Starc became the most expensive player to be bought in IPL history with 24.75 crore bid.

Chennai Super Kings made MS Dhoni the most expensive signing of IPL 2008, and he is still there with the team. Under MS, Chennai has won four IPL titles, and he is still going on strong with them. KKR invested in Gautam Gambhir in 2011, and he led a bottom three team to two IPL titles. MS Dhoni and Gautam Gambhir have been the most successful highest bid players. Mumbai Indians bought Kieron Pollard in 2010 for a record price, and his collaboration with the side is still going strong.

Although, the luck of Royal Challengers Bangalore is not great in this thing. They have signed Shane Watson and Yuvraj Singh for record amounts, but both of them did not pay them well. However, in terms of brand value, both of them were great. Shane Bond, Jaydev Unadkat, and Varun Chakravarthy also fall in the same category. All three of them were the highest-earning players of their respective auctions. Three of them could not live up to the expectations.

Year	Player	Team	Price
2008	MS Dhoni	Chennai Super Kings	9.5 Crore
2009	Kevin Pietersen	Royal Challengers Bangalore	9.8 Crore
2009	Andrew Flintoff	Chennai Super Kings	9.8 Crore
2010	Shane Bond	Kolkata Knight Riders	4.8 Crore
2010	Kieron Pollard	Mumbai Indians	4.8 Crore
2011	Gautam Gambhir	Kolkata Knight Riders	11.04 Crore
2012	Ravindra Jadeja	Chennai Super Kings	12.8 Crore
2013	Glenn Maxwell	Mumbai Indians	6.3 Crore
2014	Yuvraj Singh	Royal Challengers Bangalore	14 Crore
2015	Yuvraj Singh	Delhi Daredevils	16 Crore
2016	Shane Watson	Royal Challengers Bangalore	9.5 Crore
2017	Ben Stokes	Rising Pune Supergiants	14.5 Crore
2018	Ben Stokes	Rajasthan Royals	12.5 Crore
2019	Jaydev Unadkat	Rajasthan Royals	8.4 Crore
2019	Varun Chakravarthy	Kings XI Punjab	8.4 Crore
2020	Pat Cummins	Kolkata Knight Riders	15.5 Crore
2021	Chris Morris	Rajasthan Royals	16.25 Crore
2022	Ishan Kishan	Mumbai Indians	15.25 Crore
2023	Sam Curran	Punjab Kings	18.50 Crore
2024	Mitchell Starc	Kolkata Knight Riders	24.75 Crore