Royal Challengers Bangalore's 5 most expensive auction buys

#4 Saurabh Tiwary – 2011 – $1.66 Million

Saurabh Tiwary has seen his stardom shrink in the past couple of seasons

At the end of the first three-year cycle, teams were allowed to retain players at a certain cost. The first player retained would cost a whopping $1.8 Million. The RCB decided to put all their eggs in one basket by retaining only one player - Virat Kohli.

While they executed that perfectly, they were more impulsive in the auction. After having impressed in 2010’s IPL, and for sharing a certain likeness to MS Dhoni, Saurabh Tiwary was a very popular cricketer at that stage.

The left-hander was used at the tail of the innings where he was a huge success in 2010, scoring runs at a strike-rate of 135.

The RCB signed him for $1.6 Million - a huge increase from what he earned in 2008, a meager $40,000.

The Delhi Daredevils acquired Tiwary in 2014 but he finds himself in the auction again with the Rising Pune Supergiants deeming him surplus to their requirements after just one season.