IPL 2019: Cost of each IPL franchise

#4 Rajasthan Royals: INR 74.85 Crore

RR spent a good amount of money at the auction

Rajasthan Royals played pretty smartly at the 2019 IPL Auction. Manan Vohra's signing was the biggest steal for Royals at the auction as they managed to get him for just INR 20 Lac. Howbeit, one move that shocked everyone was re-acquisition of Jaydev Unadkat for INR 8.4 Crore after releasing him a few days back. Nonetheless, it seemed RR's strategy of buying back Unadkat at a lower price than that of IPL 2018.

Players bought by RR at 2019 IPL Auction: Jaydev Unadkat (INR 8.4 Crore), Varun Aaron (INR 2.4 Crore), Oshane Thomas (INR 1.1 Crore), Shashank Singh (INR 30 Lac), Liam Livingstone (INR 50 Lac), Shubham Ranjane (INR 20 Lac), Manan Vohra (INR 20 Lac), Ashton Turner (INR 50 Lac), and Riyan Parag (INR 20 Lac).

The total cost of players bought by RR at 2019 IPL Auction: INR 13.8 Crore

Players retained by RR for IPL 2019: Steven Smith (INR 12.5 Crore), Ben Stokes (INR 12.5 Crore), Jos Buttler (INR 4.4 Crore), Jofra Archer (INR 7.2 Crore), Ish Sodhi (INR 50 Lac), Ajinkya Rahane (INR 4 Crore), K Gowtham (INR 6.2 Crore), Sanju Samson (INR 8 Crore), Shreyas Gopal (INR 20 Lac), Aryaman Birla (INR 30 Lac), S Midhun (INR 20 Lac), Prashant Chopra (INR 20 Lac), Stuart Binny (INR 50 Lac), Rahul Tripathi (INR 3.4 Crore), Dhawal Kulkarni (INR 75 Lac), and Mahipal Lomror (INR 20 Lac).

The total cost of players retained by RR for IPL 2019: INR 61.05 Crore

Hence, the total cost of RR for IPL 2019 will amount to INR 74.85 Crore.

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