Australia captain Pat Cummins became the most expensive player ever in the IPL history as his price soared past the INR 20 crore mark.
Sunrisers Hyderabad signed Cummins for INR 20.5 crore on Tuesday.
Cummins went past Sam Curran as the most expensive IPL buy of all-time after the Punjab Kings dished out INR 18.5 crore for the
English all-rounder in last year’s auction.
There was a bidding war between CSK and MI before RCB swooped in.
Shortly after, SRH joined the tug of war.
RCB and SRH then engaged in an intense bidding war much to the amusement of those present in the room.
SRH did not back away and eventually bagged Cummins.
The fast bowler has previously been a part of Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders.
KKR signed him for a then-record sum of INR 15.5 crore in the 2020 auction.
Cummins was released and bought back by the franchise two seasons later for nearly a million dollars (INR 7.25 crore).
Cummins’ 14-ball half century, scored for KKR against Mumbai Indians in 2022, is the joint second-fastest fifty in IPL.
In 42 outings in IPL, Cummins has 45 wickets at an economy rate of 8.54 as well as 359 runs.
Cummins led Australia to the World Test Championship title in June, followed it up by retaining the Ashes in England, and then beat India at home to win the ODI World Cup.
Cummins is set to return to the IPL after pulling out of this year’s competition with Kolkata Knight Riders, citing a heavy workload that included an India Test tour, World Test Championship final, the Ashes and an ODI World Cup.
Cummins had said that 2024 IPL would come as ideal preparation for the T20 World Cup, set to start days after the IPL final.
“I feel like I haven’t played a heap of T20 cricket and in some ways I feel like I haven’t played my best T20 cricket for a little while,” he said.
Nuwan Thushara bought by Mumbai Indians for INR 4.8 crores
Mumbai Indians signed up Sri Lankan fast-bowler Nuwan Thushara in the IPL auction 2024.
The right-arm pacer had registered himself at Rs 50 lakhs base price.
Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore began the bidding for him before Mumbai Indians joined the race.
The five-time IPL champions managed to outbid both Kolkata and Bengaluru and signed up Nuwan Thushara for 4.80 crores.
Nuwan Thushara has played 5 T20Is for Sri Lanka so far and has picked up 6 wickets with the best figures of 4 for 17.
Overall, he has played 79 T20s and has picked up an impressive 103 wickets.
Recently, he impressed in the Abu Dhabi T10 league and finished the competition as the second-highest wicket-taker.
In 9 games, he had picked up 13 wickets.
