Ranking the 8 IPL teams based on the average salary of the players

# 2 Kings XI Punjab

KL Rahul is paid Rs.11 crore by Punjab

Total Salary paid by the team – Rs.78.40 Crore

Average Salary of Players – Rs. 3.41 Crore

Kings XI Punjab has a squad size of 23 players for the 2019 edition of the IPL. The total salary paid by the team comes to Rs.78.40 crore making them the second team that pays most salary per player.

The highest paid player in the squad is the Indian opener KL Rahul who is paid Rs.11.00 crore while the captain Ravichandran Ashwin is paid Rs.7.6 crore. The latest addition to the list of mystery spinners, Varun Chakravarthy is paid Rs.8.4 crore by the team. Only 4 players are bought at the lowest price tag of Rs.20 lakh and the average salary of the 23 players in the squad comes to around Rs.3.41 crore which is the second highest in the industry.

When looking at the team from the total salary cost perspective, they are the 4th team to have spent the highest amount of salary money(Rs.78.40 crore) in IPL 2019. But when ranking the teams based on the average salary of the players in IPL 2019, Kings XI Punjab is number two on the list.

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