When PBKS entered the IPL Auction, there was a lot of speculation, as to what all players they would buy, as they had the highest purse of 110.5 Cr. The team retained only Prabhsimran Singh and Shashank Singh, and had to make rest of the team with scratch. Punjab shelled out 26.25 Cr for Shreyas Iyer, while it was followed by Yuzvendra Chahal (18 Cr), and Arshdeep Singh (18 Cr).
PBKS Recruits Yuzvendra Chahal & Harpreet Brar Shine
Eventually, at the end of the first day of the IPL Auction, PBKS squad started to get a formidable look. And just a days later, some of these players justified their price tags with spectacular performances in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy round 2.
For starters, Yuzi came up with another scintillating spell. The leg-spinner returned with figures of 2/15 in his four overs vs Arunachal Pradesh, after 4/9 vs Manipur a couple of days earlier. His efforts in the match against Arunachal meant, that the team was bundled out for only 80, while chasing 256 in 20 overs.
IPL Auction 2025
In the Punjab vs Bihar encounter, PBKS players again came to the fore. Harpreet Brar showed that his 1.5 Cr at the IPL Auction wasn’t enough. He returned with figures of 3/18 in his four overs to restrict the opposition to only 113. Then, while chasing, retained Prabhsimran Singh scored 38 from 15 to wrap up the match in only 9.4 overs.
PBKS Squad at IPL Auction
Prabhsimran Singh, 4 Cr, Shashank Singh 5.5 Cr, Arshdeep Singh, 18 Cr (RTM), Shreyas Iyer, 26.75 Cr, Marcus Stoinis, 11 Cr, Yuzvendra Chahal, 18 Cr, Glenn Maxwell, 4.20 Cr, Nehal Wadhera 4.20 Cr, Harpreet Brar 1.5 Cr, Vijaykumar Vyshak 1.8 Cr, Yash Thakur 1.6 Cr, Vishnu Vinod 95 Lakh, Josh Inglis, 2.6 Cr, Lockie Ferguson 2 Cr, Marco Jansen 7 Cr.
