Most expensive players sold in the history of IPL auction, by season

 IPL Mega Auction 2025: The countdown to the mega auction of IPL 2025 has begun. The IPL auction is scheduled to be held on 24 and 25 November in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In this auction too, 10 franchises will be seen blindly spending money on many players.

The 2024 auction broke all records in the history of IPL, where Mitchell Starc was bought by the KKR team for Rs 24.75 crore. Earlier, the Sunrisers Hyderabad team had spent Rs 20.50 crore to buy World Cup-winning captain Pat Cummins in the 2024 auction itself. In such a situation, before the IPL 2025 auction, let us know the list of the most expensive players sold in history so far.

Most expensive players sold in the history of IPL auction

Player	Team	Auction Price	Year
Mitchell Starc	KKR	Rs 24.75 crore	2024
Pat Cummins	SRH	Rs 20.50 crore	2024
Sam Curran	PBKS	Rs 18.50 crore	2023
Cameron Green	MI	Rs 17.50 crore	2023
Ben Stokes	CSK	Rs 16.25 crore	2023
Chris Morris	RR	Rs 16.25 crore	2021
Yuvraj Singh	DD	Rs 16 Crore	2015
Nicholas Pooran	LSG	Rs 15.50 Crore	2023
Pat Cummins	KKR	Rs 16 Crore	2023
Ishan Kishan	MI	Rs 15.25 Crore	2022

IPL most expensive players (by season)

Year	Players and teams	price
2008	MS Dhoni (CSK)	Rs 9.5 crore
2009	Kevin Pietersen (RCB), Andrew Flintoff (CSK)	Rs 9.8 crore
2010	Shane Bommed (KKR), Kieron Pollard (MI)	Rs 4.8 crore
2011	Gautam Gambhir (KKR)	Rs 14.9 crore
2012	Ravindra Jadeja (CSK)	Rs 12.8 crore
2013	Glenn Maxwell (MI)	Rs 6.3 crore
2014	Yuvraj Singh (RCB)	Rs 14 crore
2015	Yuvraj Singh (DD)	Rs 16 crore
2016	Shane Watson (RCB)	Rs 9.5 crore
2017	Ben Stokes (RPS)	Rs 14.5 crore
2018	Ben Stokes (RR)	Rs 12.5 crore
2019	Jaidev Unadkat (RR), Varun Chakraborty (KXIP)	Rs 8.4 crore
2020	Pat Cummins (KKR)	Rs 15.5 crore
2021	Chris Morris (RR)	Rs 16.25 crore
2022	Ishan Kishan (MI)	Rs 15.25 crore
2023	Sam Curran (PBKS)	Rs 18.25 crore
2024	Mitchell Starc (KKR)	Rs 24.75 crore