A complete guide to IPL 2017 Players Auction (February 20) in Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Feb 16: The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2017 Players Auction will be held in Bengaluru on February 20 (Monday) with 351 cricketers set to go under the hammer.

Full schedule of IPL 2017; List of players retained

Rs 2 crore is the highest base price in the auction with 7 players featuring incuding India's fast bowler Ishant Sharma. (Full list of players for auction)

Here is your complete guide to IPL 2017 Players Auction

0 - Number of players from Pakistan in the auction

351 - The total number of players to be auctioned

Rs 2 crore - The highest base price at this year's auction

Rs 10 lakh - The starting base price for a player

7 - Number of players with highest base price (Rs 2 crore) - Ishant Sharma, Ben Stokes, Eoin Morgan, Chris Woakes, Mitchell Johnson, Pat Cummins, Angelo Mathews

6 - Number of players from Associate nations in auction. 5 from Afghanistan and 1 from the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Rs 379.67 crore - Total money spent by all 8 teams to retain players ahead of the auction

Rs 148.33 crore - Total money available for auction for all 8 franchises put together

Rs 23.35 crore - The maximum funds with one team - Kings XI Punjab (KXIP)

90 - Number of players released by teams

76 - The total number of players that can be bought at the auction

43 - The number of overseas players with all 8 teams

29 - The number of overseas players that can be bought at auction

7 - The number of foreign players with Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). The maximum among all 8 teams

27 - The maximum number of players a team can have for IPL 2017 tournament

9 - The maximum number of overseas cricketers a team can have

139 - The total number of players retained ahead of the auction

20 - Mumbai Indians (MI) and Royal Challengers Bangalore retained the maximum number of players

Rs 54.445 crore - The maximum amount spent by MI to retain their 20 players

Rs 66 crore - Total purse for each team

Country-wise break-up of players in auction

226 - India

30 - Australia

21 each - Sri Lanka, West Indies

19 - New Zealand

13 - South Africa

9 - England

6 - Bangladesh

5 - Afghanistan

1 - United Arab Emirates

Total - 351

Team-wise funds remaining

Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) - Rs 23.35 crore (Purse spent - Rs 42.65 crore)

Delhi Daredevils (DD) - Rs 23.1 crore (Rs 42.9 crore)

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) - Rs 20.9 crore (Rs 45.1 crore)

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) - Rs 19.75 crore (Rs 46.25 crore)

Rising Pune Supergiants (RPS) - Rs 17.5 crore (Rs 48.5 crore)

Gujarat Lions (GL) - Rs 14.35 crore (Rs 51.65 crore)

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) - Rs 17.825 crore (Rs 48.175 crore)

Mumbai Indians (MI) - Rs 11.555 crore (Rs 54.445)

Note: On February 19, RCB and Mitchell Starc parted ways and the team had an additional purse of Rs 5 crore for the auction

Costliest players, as per money deducted by a team's purse in retention list

Rs 12.5 crore each - MS Dhoni (RPS), Suresh Raina (GL), Rohit Sharma (MI), Virat Kohli (RCB), Shikhar Dhawan (SRH), David Miller (KXIP), Gautam Gambhir (KKR)

Note: As per last year's figures, Kohli was paid Rs 15 crore by RCB, making him the costliest player in IPL

Current strength of squads

Each team can have a maximum of 27 players with 9 foreigners

DD - 17 (5 overseas)

KXIP - 19 (5)

KKR - 14 (4)

MI - 20 (6)

RCB - 19 (7)

SRH - 17 (5)

RPS - 17 (5)

GL - 16 (6)

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