Seamer Jaydev Unadkat and mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy both won contracts worth more than a million dollars at Tuesday's player auction for the 2019 Indian Premier League twenty20 tournament. The Rajasthan Royals bought back the 27-year-old Unadkat for 84 million Indian rupees ($1.2 million) at the auction in Jaipur, after letting the left-arm seamer go following this year's tournament. England's Sam Curran, 20, also became a millionaire after Punjab bid 72 million rupees for the all-rounder. His compatriot Jonny Bairstow will play in the IPL for the first time, with Sunrisers Hyderabad paying 22 million rupees for his services. India's under-19 wicketkeeper-batsman Prabhsimran Singh turned heads at the auction when the teenager was picked up for a whopping 48 million rupees by Kings XI Punjab.

Source: dna December 18, 2018 19:07 UTC