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The 2019 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) was a humdinger to the last ball of the tournament, which saw the Mumbai Indians wrest back their crown from their arch-nemesis and defending champions, the Chennai Super Kings by a margin of just 1 run. The year ended with the player auctions for the 2020 season on Thursday, 19 th December, 2019, which was the last one before the grand auction for the 2021 edition. So, without further ado, I would attempt to evaluate as to how the 8 sides performed on the auction table, as they attempted to go in for some of the biggest names today in world cricket and the “flavour-of-the-season” players. This would be a two-part article, with Part II coming soon. Chennai Super Kings: - The runners-up from the previous edition came into this auction with a very settled and experienced squad and having the slot to buy a maximum of 5 players (having released 6 players from their previous squad which included the likes of David Willey and Sam B...

Seeing Tuesday’s IPL Auction and the utterly mind-boggling sums of money that were doled out by the teams for some unfancied names and the “flavour-of-the-season” players has set my mind off to think a little bit and thus in this article, I try to evaluate the 8 teams on the basis of their performance on the auction table on Tuesday and see which teams can go back home happy and the ones that would probably be feeling a little queasy. This would be a two-part article and Part II is coming soon: - 1.        Chennai Super Kings: - o    The defending champions came into this auction having released the least number of players (just 3 players were released by them) and with the smallest auction purse, which gives an indication of how settled their squad is, and had to buy just 2 players to complete their playing squad. They were able to do that by making a big-money signing in their former pacer Mohit Sharma for 5 crores, which kicked off t...