Cameron Green has become the highest paid international player in Indian Premier League history, sold to the Kolkata Knight Riders at Tuesday’s Auction for 25.2 crore (AU$4.17 million).
Following a three-way bidding war alongside the Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings, the Knight Riders secured the services of the West Australian all-rounder for an eye-watering sum.
The previous highest bid for an overseas player in an IPL Auction was Australian speedster Mitchell Starc, who was signed by the same franchise in 2023 for 24.75 crore.
Elsewhere, South Australian batter Jake Fraser-McGurk went unsold, ignored by the ten franchises.
The only place to stream every match of the 2025/26 KFC BBL LIVE is on FOX CRICKET, available on Kayo Sports. | New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1 >
FOLLOW LIVE
Follow all the latest updates in our live blog below! Can’t see the blog? CLICK HERE
PREVIEW
Twenty Australians will go under the hammer for tonight’s Indian Premier League (IPL) Auction, with 30 overseas stars set to be snapped up for the 19th edition of the glamorous T20 tournament.
All-rounder Cameron Green will be one of the most in-demand players, while compatriots including Steve Smith, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Josh Inglis, Cooper Connolly and Spencer Johnson will also be up for grabs.
Green, who went for INR 17.5 crore (approx. $AU3.15m at the time) in the 2023 auction, and Fraser-McGurk (INR 9 crore, $AU1.65m last season with Delhi) will be in the first set of batters sold.
Both have set their base price at the highest level, 2 crore (approx. $AU332,000).
Green cannot improve on his 2023 price with a new rule setting overseas players at a maximum of INR 18 crore (currently approx. $AU3m). Nonetheless, he’s still expected to fetch one of the biggest paydays of the night that could see him earn that maximum amount.
That is despite a bungle by his manager who registered Green as a batter only.
“I’ll be good to bowl,” Green said on Sunday.
“I don’t know if my manager would like to hear this, but there was a stuff-up on his end. He didn’t mean to say ‘batter’. I think he accidentally selected the wrong box.
“It was pretty funny how it’s all played out, but it was actually a stuff-up on his end.”
Elsewhere, Australian superstar Glenn Maxwell has announced he withdrew his name from the IPL Auction earlier this month.
A total of 1390 players registered for the auction, but only 350 players have been shortlisted for the event. The full list can be seen here.
Although this is a ‘mini-auction’ with various restrictions and rules, there will be plenty of action with 77 vacant roster slots to be filled — with some clubs considerably more cashed up than others. Up to a whopping INR 237.55 crore (A$40.3m) could be spent across the day.
GUIDE: Every Aussie’s base price revealed — Auction guide
Babar and Afridi to join BBL | 01:03
START TIME
The IPL Auction gets underway on Tuesday, December 16 in Abu Dhabi at 8pm AEDT.
HOW TO WATCH
The entire IPL Auction will be shown live on Foxtel (Channel 503) and streaming platform Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.
AUSTRALIANS IN THE AUCTION & BASE PRICES
₹200 lakh (approx. A$332,000) — Cameron Green, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Steve Smith, Sean Abbott, Josh Inglis, Cooper Connolly
₹150 lakh (approx. A$249,000) — Riley Meredith, Jhye Richardson, Matthew Short, Jason Behrendorff, Spencer Johnson
₹125 lakh (approx. A$207,500) — Beau Webster
₹100 lakh (approx. A$166,000) — Ben Dwarshuis, Daniel Sams, Will Sutherland
₹75 lakh (approx. A$124,500) — Ben McDermott, Wes Agar, Billy Stanlake
₹50 lakh (approx. A$83,000) — Jack Edwards
₹40 lakh (approx. A$66,400) — Nikhil Chaudhary
Total base value of every Australian — A$4,484,000
100 lakh = 1 crore
2026 IPL SQUADS
Chennai Super Kings
MS Dhoni, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sanju Samson (traded in from RR), Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brewis, Shivam Dube, Urvil Patel, Noor Ahmad, Nathan Ellis, Shreyas Gopal, Khaleel Ahmed, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Mukesh Choudhary, Jamie Overton, Gurjapneet Singh, Anshul Kamboj
Delhi Capitals
Nitish Rana, Abishek Porel, Ajay Mandal, Ashutosh Sharma, Axar Patel, Dushmantha Chameera, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Kuldeep Yadav, Madhav Tiwari, Mitchell Starc, Sameer Rizvi, T Natarajan, Tripurana Vijay, Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mukesh Kumar
Gujarat Titans
Anuj Rawat, Glenn Phillips, Gurnoor Brar, Ishant Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Jos Buttler, Kagiso Rabada, Kumar Kushagra, Manav Suthar, Mohammed Siraj, Arshad Khan, Nishant Sindhu, Prasidh Krishna, R Sai Kishore, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, B Sai Sudharsan, M Shahrukh Khan, Shubman Gill, Washington Sundar
Kolkata Knight Riders
Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy
Lucknow Super Giants
Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Akash Singh, Arjun Tendulkar, Arshin Kulkarni, Avesh Khan, Ayush Badoni, Digvesh Rathi, Himmat Singh, Manimaran Siddharth, Matthew Breetzke, Mayank Yadav, Mohammed Shami (traded in from SRH), Mitchell Marsh, Mohsin Khan, Nicholas Pooran, Prince Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Shahbaz Ahmed
Mumbai Indians
Shardul Thakur, Sherfane Rutherford, Mayank Markande, AM Ghazanfar, Ashwani Kumar, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Mitchell Santner, Naman Dhir, Raghu Sharma, Raj Bawa, Robin Minz, Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Trent Boult, Will Jacks
Punjab Kings
Arshdeep Singh, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harnoor Pannu, Harpreet Brar, Lockie Ferguson, Marco Jansen, Marcus Stoinis, Mitch Owen, Musheer Khan, Nehal Wadhera, Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Pyla Avinash, Shashank Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Suryansh Shedge, Vishnu Vinod, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Xavier Bartlett, Yash Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal
Rajasthan Royals
Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Dhruv Jurel, Jofra Archer, Kwena Maphaka, Lhuan-Dre Pretorius, Nandre Burger, Riyan Parag, Sandeep Sharma, Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Tushar Deshpande, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Yudhvir Singh
Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Jitesh Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Abhinandan Singh, Jacob Bethell, Nuwan Thushara, Rasikh Dar, Swapnil Singh
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, Brydon Carse, Eshan Malinga, Harsh Dubey, Harshal Patel, Heinrich Klaasen, Ishan Kishan, Jaydev Unadkat, Kamindu Mendis, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Pat Cummins, R Smaran, Travis Head, Zeeshan Ansari
Discussion about this post