IPL 2019: Cost of each IPL franchise

#5 Royal Challengers Bangalore: INR 74 Crore

RCB managed to make some interesting signings

Royal Challengers Bangalore fared decently at the 2019 IPL Auction as they managed to buy the likes of Shimron Hetmyer, Heinrich Klassen, Shivam Dube, and Gurkeerat Singh. They also invested in some of the newbies for IPL 2019.

Players traded by RCB for IPL 2019: Mandeep Singh traded for Marcus Stoinis with KXIP. Quinton de Kock traded to Mumbai Indians in an all-money deal.

Players bought by RCB at 2019 IPL Auction: Shimron Hetmyer (INR 4.2 Crore), Gurkeerat Singh (INR 50 Lac), Devdutt Padikal (INR 20 Lac), Shivam Dube (INR 5 Crore), Heinrich Klaasen (INR 50 Lac), Himmat Singh (INR 65 Lac), Milind Kumar (INR 20 Lac), Prayas Ray Barman (INR 1.5 Crore), and Akshdeep Nath (INR 3.6 Crore).

The total cost of players bought by RCB at 2019 IPL Auction: INR 16.35 Crore

Players retained by RCB for IPL 2019: Virat Kohli (INR 17 Crore), AB de Villiers (INR 11 Crore), Parthiv Patel (INR 1.7 Crore), Washington Sundar (INR 3.2 Crore), Pawan Negi (INR 1 Crore), Moeen Ali (INR 1.7 Crore), Colin de Grandhomme (INR 2.2 Crore), Yuzvendra Chahal (INR 6 Crore), Mohammed Siraj (INR 2.6 Crore), Tim Southee (INR 1 Crore), Umesh Yadav (INR 4.2 Crore), Navdeep Saini (INR 3 Crore), Kulwant Khejroliya (INR 85 Lac), and Nathan Coulter-Nile (INR 2.2 Crore).

The total cost of players retained by RCB for IPL 2019: INR 57.65 Crore

Hence, the total cost of RCB for IPL 2019 will come out as INR 74 Crore.

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