Punjab Kings pays one point eight five million pounds for England’s Sam Curran at the auction of the Indian Premier League today.
It’s described as the most expensive auction buy in the history of the IPL.
South African all-rounder Chris Morris is the previous most expensive IPL player, having been signed by Rajasthan Royals for £1.6m in April 2021.
However, that figure was overtaken again when Mumbai Indians paid £1.75m for Australian all-rounder Cameron Green.
Curran picked up 13 wickets at an average of 11.38 in last month’s event in Australia and his batting has also improved.
At this year’s Twenty20 World Cup Curran was named player of the tournament after helping England to become double white-ball world champions.
BBC is reporting six franchises made a bid for the 24-year-old all-rounder.
Yorkshire’s Harry Brook has been sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for £1.35m.
The 23-year-old was the leading run-scorer for England in their recent 3-0 Test series win in Pakistan.
Curran was named player of the tournament at this year’s Twenty20 World Cup after helping England to become double white-ball world champions.
England red-ball captain and all-rounder Ben Stokes was acquired for £1.63m by Chennai Super Kings – one of the franchises to miss out on Curran.
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