They joined the bid with a wallet amount of 53.20 crores to fill 9 slots. By picking up three Australian cricket players at hefty prices, they made a lot of noise. Pacer Jhye Richardson, which they had for around 14 crores, to be their most expensive buy. 

They held steady with Shahrukh Khan, the uncapped batsman whose success at the recently completed Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy kept him a go-to auction player. For an original price of 20 lakh, he was priced at 5.25 crore.

Players Retained: KL Rahul (c&wk), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Mandeep Singh, Prabsimran Singh, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Murugan Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Harpreet Brar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ishan Porel, Darshan Nalkande, Chris Jordan

Players bought: Today’s buys: Dawid Malan (INR 1.5 crores), Jhye Richardson (INR 14 crores), Shahrukh Khan (INR 5.25 crores), Riley Meredith (INR 8 crores), Moises Henriques (INR 4.20 Crores), Jalaj Saxena (INR 30 Lakhs), Utkarsh Singh (INR 20 Lakhs), Fabian Allen (INR 75 Lakhs), Saurabh Kumar (INR 20 Lakhs)