Bengaluru: Ahead of the 11th season of the IPL, which will be held from April 7 to May 27, 578 cricketers will go under the hammer in the two-day player auction in Bengaluru.

Ben Stokes was the highest paid player in the auction, with Rajasthan Royals buying his for Rs 12.5 cr.

Vadodara, Gujarat based Krunal Pandya became the highest paid uncapped player in the history of the IPL, going to Mumbai Indians for Rs 8.8 cr.

Amongst the Indians, KL Rahul and Manish Pandey got the highest bids, with the Kings XI Punjab and Sunrisers Hyderabad respectively snapping up the pair for Rs 11 cr each.

Ricky Ponting has confirmed Gautam Gambhir will be captain of Delhi Daredevils.

78 players out of 110, who went under hammer, were sold today. A total of Rs 318.10 cr was spent on them.

The 2018 IPL Auction as it happened:

Hyderabad signed Shikhar Dhawan for Rs 5.2 cr, using their Right-to-Match option.

Kings XI Punjab signed Ravichandran Ashwin for Rs 7.6 cr.

Mumbai Indians signed Kieron Pollard for Rs 5.4 cr, using their Right-to-match option.

Chris Gayle remains unsold.

Faf du Plessis was bought for Rs 1.6 cr by Chennai Super Kings, who used their Right-to-match option.

Rajasthan Royals exercised their Right-to-match option to buy Ajinkya Rahane for Rs 4 cr.

Mitchell Starc went to Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 9.4 cr.

CSK bought Harbhajan Singh for Rs 2 cr.

Sunrisers Hyderabad bought Shakib Al Hasan for Rs 2 cr.

Glenn Maxwell was sold for Rs 9 cr to Delhi Daredevils. Kings XI decided not to use their RTM card.

Delhi Daredevils also bought Gautam Gambhir for Rs 2.8 cr. KKR decided not to use their RTM card.

CSK used their Right-To-Match option to retain Dwayne Bravo for Rs 6.4 cr.

Kane Williamson went to SRH for Rs 3 cr.

Joe Root remained unsold.

Kings XI Punjab bought Yuvraj Singh for his base price of Rs 2 cr.

Karun Nair was sold for Rs 5.6 cr to Kings XI Punjab.

Kings XI Punjab bought KL Rahul for Rs 11 cr.

Murali Vijay remained unsold.

David Miller was sold to Kings XI Punjab for Rs 3 cr, after they used the RTM card.

Australian opener Aaron Finch sold for Rs 6.2 cr to Kings XI Punjab.

Royal Challengers made their first buy of the auction. Brendon McCullum sold for Rs 3.6 cr.

Jason Roy sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 1.5 cr.

Chris Lynn sold for Rs 9.6 cr to Kolkata Knight Riders.

Hashim Amla remains unsold.

Manish Pandey sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 11 cr, after KKR did not use the RTM card.

Martin Guptill remained unsold.

Chris Woakes sold to RCB for Rs 7.4 cr

Sunrisers Hyderabad bought Carlos Brathwaite for Rs 2 cr

Chennai Super Kings bought Shane Watson for Rs 4 cr

Chennai Super Kings bought Kedar Jadhav for Rs 7.8 cr

RCB signed Colin de Grandhomme for Rs 2.2 cr

James Faulkner remained unsold.

Yusuf Pathan sold for Rs 1.9 cr to Sunrisers Hyderabad

Delhi Daredevils signed Colin Munro for Rs 1.9 cr

Stuart Binny sold to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 50 lakh

Kings XI Punjab used their RTM to buy Marcus Stoinis for Rs 6.2 cr

RCB bought Moeen Ali for Rs 1.7 cr

Parthiv Patel remained unsold

Quinton De Kock sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 2.8 cr, after Delhi refused to use their RTM card.

Wriddhiman Saha sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 5 cr, after Punjab refused to use their RTM card.

Jonny Bairstow remained unsold.

Dinesh Karthik sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 7.4 cr

Naman Ojha remained unsold

Robin Uthappa sold to KKR for Rs 6.4 cr after they used their RTM card.

Rajasthan Royals signed Sanju Samson for Rs 8 cr

Ambati Rayudu went to Chennai Super Kings for Rs 2.2 cr

Sam Billings remains unsold.

Jos Buttler went to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 4.4 cr

Mustafizur Rahman was bought by Mumbai Indians for Rs 2.2 cr

Mitchell Johnson and Josh Hazlewood remained unsold.

Mumbai Indians signed Pat Cummins for Rs 5.4 cr

Umesh Yadav sold to RCB for Rs 4.2 cr

Tim Southee and Ishant Sharma remained unsold.

Mohammad Shami sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 3 cr after they used their RTM card.

Mitchell McClenaghan remained unsold.

Kagiso Rabada joined Delhi Daredevils for Rs 4.2 cr, after they used the RTM

Lasith Malinga remained unsold.

Piyush Chawla signed by Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 4.2 cr after they used the RTM

Imran Tahir went to Chennai Super Kings for Rs 1 cr

Ish Sodhi remained unsold

Karn Sharma sold to Chennai Super Kings for Rs 5 cr

Rashid Khan sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 9 cr, after they used the RTM

Amit Mishra joined Delhi Daredevils for Rs 4 cr

Samuel Badree remained unsold

Yuzvendra Chahal was signed by RCB after they used the RTM card, for Rs 6 cr.

Adam Zampa remained unsold

KKR useded their RTM card to match RCB’s bid and signed Kuldeep Yadav for Rs 5.8 cr

Suryakumar Yadav was bought by Mumbai Indians for Rs 3.2 cr

India U19 batsman Shubman Gill was sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 1.8 cr

Sunrisers signed Ricky Bhui for Rs 20 lakh

Kings XI Punjab signed Mayank Agarwal for Rs 1 cr

Rahul Tripathi went to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 3.4 cr

Manan Vohra was signed by RCB for Rs 1.1 cr

Siddhesh Lad remains unsold

India U19 Captain Prithvi Shaw was signed by Delhi Daredevils for Rs 1.2 cr

Rahul Tewatia went to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 3 cr

Deepak Hooda went to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 3.6 cr, after they used the RTM card.

Delhi Daredevils sign Vijay Shankar for Rs 3.2 cr

Delhi Daredevils sign pacer Harshal Patel for Rs 20 lakh

Kamlesh Nagarkoti signs for KKR for Rs 3.2 cr

Mumbai Indians used their RTM card to sign Krunal Pandya for Rs 8.8 cr. He became the highest paid uncapped player of all time.

Nitish Rana sold for Rs 3.4 cr to KKR.

Rajasthan Royals bought D’Arcy Short for Rs 4 cr

Shivam Dube went unsold

Jofra Archer went to the Rajasthan Royals for Rs 7.2 cr

Mumbai Indians signed Ishan Kishan for Rs 6.2 cr

Nikhil Naik, Aditya Tare, Ankush Bains, Vishnu Vinod, Sheldon Jackson, Prashant Chopra and Ben McDermott remained unsold

RCB bought Kulwant Khejroliya for Rs 85 lakh

Siddharth Kaul moved to SRH for Rs 3.8 cr

SRH also signed T. Natarajan for Rs 40 lakh.SRH also got Basil Thampi for Rs 95 lakh

Rajneesh Gurbani remained unsold

RCB signed Aniket Choudhary for Rs 30 lakh

SRH signed Syed Khaleel Ahmed for Rs 3 cr

RCB bought Navdeep Saini for Rs 3 cr

Delhi Daredevils bought Avesh Khan for Rs 70 lakh

Kings XI Punjab signed Ankit Singh Rajpoot for Rs 3 cr

The squads:

CSK : MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Faf du Plessis, Harbhajan Singh, Dwayne Bravo, Shane Watson, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma

DD : Chris Morris, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Glenn Maxwell, Gautam Gambhir, Jason Roy, Colin Munro, Mohammad Shami, Kagiso Rabada, Amit Mishra, Prithvi Shaw, Rahul Tewatia, Vijay Shankar, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan

KXIP : Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuvraj Singh, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, David Miller, Aaron Finch, Marcus Stoinis, Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Singh Rajpoot

KKR : Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Mitchell Starc, Chris Lynn, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Shubman Gill, Ishank Jaggi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Nitish Rana

MI : Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Kieron Pollard, Mustafizur Rahman, Patrick Cummins, Suryakumar Yadav, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan

RR : Steve Smith, Ben Stokes, Ajinkya Rahane, Stuart Binny, Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Rahul Tripathi, D’Arcy Short, Jofra Archer

RCB : Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Sarfaraz Khan, Brendon McCullum, Chris Woakes, Colin de Grandhomme, Quinton de Kock, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Manan Vohra, Kulwant Khejroliya, Aniket Choudhary, Navdeep Saini

SRH : David Warner, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shikhar Dhawan, Shakib Al Hasan, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Carlos Brathwaite, Yusuf Pathan, Wriddhiman Saha, Rashid Khan, Ricky Bhui, Deepak Hooda, Siddharth Kaul, T. Natarajan, Basil Thampi, Syed Khaleel Ahmed