Rajasthan Royals wrote history after buying Chris Morris for 16.25cr leaving him the highest-paid cricket player in IPL history. To strengthen their pace department, they also added Bangladesh’s seamer Mustafizur Rahman for 1cr.

In the build-up to the IPL 2021 auctions in Chennai, Royals had already trade-off Uthappa to Chennai Super Kings over the next season in all real money. Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Rahul Tewatia, Riyan Parag, Shreyas Gopal, and Jaydev Unadkat have been retained by the Royals.

Retained players: Sanju Samson, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Riyan Parag, Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror, Kartik Tyagi, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, David Miller, Manan Vohra, Robin Uthappa

Players bought at auction: Chris Morris (16.25 crore), Shivam Dube (4.4 crores), Chetan Sakariya (1.2 crores), Mustafizur Rahman (1 crore), Liam Livingstone (75 lakh), Akash Singh (20 lakh), KC Cariappa (20 lakh), Kuldip Yadav (20 lakh)