IPL 2024 Mini Auction: The mini auction of the IPL 2024 season was a grand affair in Dubai. It was for the first time that an auction of the Indian Premier League was held outside India.
The IPL 2024 Mini Auction had made headlines as it saw the most expensive player in the history of this cash rich league tournament.
Since the first of the Indian Premier League, many expensive players were brought in that season. But this time, two players were brought for whopping prices, and they have made a record as the most expensive players in this whole tournament.
Those players are from Australia, the recent champion of ODI World Cup in 2023. The pace bowler of the Aussies, Mitchell Starc was sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for 24.75 cores and he is the most expensive player in the history of the Indian Premier League tournament.
His team mate, Pat Cummins, the ODI World Cup 2023 winning skipper of Australia was brought for 20.50 cores by Sunrisiers Hyderabad and he became the second most expensive player in IPL 2024 Mini Auction.
Despite paying the big prices, how many teams have won an IPL title after buying the most expensive player? Today we wll answer this question –
Mumbai Indians is the team who has won five titles in the Indian Premier League. MI was the successful franchise side in this tournament till last year.
Now Chennai Super Kings has joined the MI franchise team as Dhoni and his men also have won five IPL Trophies to their name. Both the sides will be aiming to seal their sixth title in the IPL 2024 season.
Many of us know that the Mumbai Indians franchise side had won their first IPL title in 2013 and that win gave rise to one of the finest leaders of Indian Premier League tournament and the Indian Cricket Team as well.
Rohit Sharma was the skipper of that MI side when he lifted the trophy for the first time and after that HITMAN went on to win four more IPL glory after that.
In 2013, the Mumbai Indians franchise which is owned by The Ambani’s had brought the Aussie spin bowling all-rounder, Glenn Maxwell. Maxi was the most expensive player in that season of the Indian Premier League.
The Big Show was brought for 5.3 cores which equals to one million and in earlier seasons, the teams who brought the expensive players on their side never won the IPL same year.
But the Mumbai Indians franchise changed that dynamics in the 2013 season of the Indian Premier League. In the whole history of this cash-rich league tournament, MI is the only side to win the title in that same year when the team has brought in the most expensive players.
However, the most expensive player of that season had no role to play. Maxi played only 3 games and scored just 36 runs in that season for MI.
