By our Special Correspondent
IPL Auction: Barely a month after not retaining him, Kolkata Knight Riders shelled out Rs 23.75 crores to re-avail the services of Venkatesh Iyer. Another cricketer the franchise snubbed, their title-winning captain Shreyas Iyer, fetched Rs 26.75 crores from the coffers of Punjab Kings on Day One of the mega auction.
The costliest affair was Rishabh Pant, who received an eye-popping Rs 27 crores from Lucknow Super Giants. The pre-auction forecast was that the Indian keeper would breach the Rs 25 crores barrier. He did, but after Shreyas Iyer.
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