Bengaluru: K Gowtham and Amit Verma were the big winners at the Karnataka Premier League auction held at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday as the duo fetched a handsome Rs 7.2 lakh from Belagavi Panthers and Ballari Tuskers respectively.
Entering into the auction early in Pool A, Verma garnered interest from Bengaluru Blasters and Mysuru Warriors before Tuskers blew the competition out of the water.
Gowtham was also in the same boat with five of the seven teams interested before Panthers broke the bank to land the all-rounder.
Mayank Agarwal was the other top buy of the day, becoming the third and final player to touch the seven lakh mark. There was keen interest from across the room for the hard hitting opener, who shone in the previous edition of the tournament, but Hubli Tigers landed their man for a premium price.
R. Samarth (5.9 lakh to Bengaluru), Anirudha Joshi (5.8 lakh to Namma Shivamogga) and Prateek Jain (5.5 lakh to Ballari Tuskers) were some of the other top buys from Pool A. While Kunal Kapoor, who went unsold in the morning session and returned to the auction late in the day, was signed by Ballari for 2.9 lakh.
Rather predictably, due to their commitments with the Indian national sides, KL Rahul (Rs 50,000) and Manish Pandey (1.6 lakh) fetched lower prices although Karun Nair went for four lakh.
Tuskers clinched what could be the bargain of the season when they roped in wicket-keeper batsman CM Gautam for his base price of Rs 50,000.
While the top guns did provide the promised excitement, Pool B had its own share of the same with some heated bids as evidenced by Jonathan’s 5.10 lakh capture by Shivamogga who outbid Bulls to land their man.
All-rounder Stalin Hoover and batsman Dikshanshu Negi also set the pulses rising as the duo eventually went to Belagavi and Bijapur for Rs4.5 lakh and 4.4 lakh respectively. Bijapur also broke the bank to land all-rounder Naveen M.G for 4.2 lakh.
The teams spent a combined total of 2.06 crore for 126 players with Shivamogga spending the least with Rs 28,80,000 while Belagavi used up their entire kitty saving just Rs 5,000 of their 30 lakh purse.
Belagavi Panthers
Mir Kaunain Abbas (2,50,000), K Gautham (7,20,000), Manish Pandey (1,60,000), Stuart Binny (1,10,000), Arvind S (1,50,000), Satish Bharadwaj (20,000), Anand Doddamani (65,000), Shubang Hegde (2,70,000), Bharath KN (3,80,000), Shashindra K (20,000), Stalin Hoover (4,50,000), Sharath BR (70,000), Sunil Kumar Jain (20,000), Avinash D (20,000), Nitin Bhille (1,50,000), Akshay CK (20,000), Rakshit S (1,00,000), Darshan Machaiah (20,000).
Ballari Tuskers
KL Rahul (50,000), Pawan KB (3,00,000), Amit Verma (7,20,000), Gautham CM (50,000), Prateek Jain (5,50,000), Sai Shiv Narayan (20,000), Anil IG (50,000), Devdutt Padikal (20,000), Nishant Singh Shekavat (20,000), Abhinav Manohar (1,20,000), Bhavesh Gulecha (70,000), Zeeshan Ali Sayyed (1,00,000), Rohan Kadam (2,80,000), Dinesh Borwankar (20,000), Zahoor Farooqui (2,20,000), Kunal Kapoor (2,90,000), Daivik Vishwanath (20,000). Gautham Sagar 20,000
Bijapur Bulls
Ronit More (1,30,000), Mohammed Taha (5,00,000), KC Cariappa (2,50,000), Sharath HS (50,000), Mithun Abhimanyu (1,00,000), Rishab Singh (70,000), Rajat Hedge (20,000), Kiran AM (2,40,000), Bharat Chipli (1,20,000), Dikshanshu Negi (4,40,000), Nidish M (1,80,000), Praveen (20,000), Naveen MG (4,20,000), Prithviraj Shekawat (3,50,000), Raj Atul Gala (20,000), Rishab GM (20,000), Prashanth S (20,000), Lal Sachin (20,000).
Hubli Tigers
Mayank Agarwal (7,00,000), Praveen Dubey (3,10,000), Vinay Kumar (3,60,000), Abhisek Reddy (2,00,000), David Mathias (70,000), Abhisek Sakuja (3,40,000), Ritesh Bhatkal (1,30,000), Aman Khan (20,000), Nischal D (25,000), Prithvi Varadharajan (20,000), Siddharthh K.V (1,80,000), Melu Kranti Kumar (1,80,000), Anurag Bajpai (1,80,000), Ishfaq Nazir Bhat (20,000), Swapnil Yelave (20,000), Sharan Gowda (1,50,000), S Shivaraj (25,000), Rohith Gowda (20,000).
Kalyani Bengaluru Blasters
Samarth R (5,90,000), Pavan Deshpande (4,60,000), Mitrakanth Yadav (2,50,000), Shishir Bhavane (1,50,000), Prasidh M Krishna (3,00,000), Pranav Bhatia (20,000), Sinan Abdul Khader (20,000), Jeshwanth Acharya (90,000), Manjesh Reddy (70,000), Shivam Mishra (20,000), Rajoo Bhatkal (3,30,000), Vishwanathan M (50,000), Abhisek Bhat (1,30,000), Rohan Raju (60,000), Koushik V (2,80,000), Varun Pandit (20,000), Nikin Jose (20,000), Sharath Srinivas (1,00,000).
Mysuru Warriors
Karun Nair (4,00,000), Shreyas Gopal (3,40,000), Vyshak V (2,10,000), Suchith J (2,50,000), Suneel Raju (5,00,000), Vineet Yadav (30,000), Kushal Wadhwani (20,000), Shivil Kaushik (30,000), Arjun Hoysala (3,20,000), Prateeksh R (20,000), Manjunath SP (2,70,000), Bhareth NP (1,20,000), Srijith KL (20,000), Avinash KC (45,000), Akshay SL (1,70,000), Nikith S (1,90,000), Ram Sarikh Yadav (20,000), Vikas Kumar Sinha (20,000).
Namma Shivamogga
Anirudh Joshi (5,80,000), Abrar Kazi (2,50,000), Pradeep T (4,80,000), Akhil Balachandra (2,40,000), Mohd. Sarfaraz Ashraf (1,90,000), Vinoo Prasad (20,000), Amey Shanbag (20,000), Jonathan R (5,10,000), Liyan Khan (20,000), Abdul Majid (20,000), Saksham Kaul (20,000), Shoaib Manager (1,10,000), Chiranjeevi GS (1,50,000), Sadiq Kirmani (20,000) Nihal Ullal (1,10,000), Lavish (20,000), Aditya Somanna (1,00,000), Mashooq Hussain (20,000).
