NEW DELHI: The perennial underachievers
Royal Challengers Bangalore
splurged big bucks on uncapped India cricketers at the 2019 IPL Auction in Jaipur on Tuesday.
They spent a whopping Rs 5 crore for Shivam Dube early in the auction and later added Akshdeep Nath and Prayas Barman for Rs 3.60 crore and Rs 1.5 crore respectively.
In total
RCB
spent Rs 16.35 crore to buy nine players to increase their squad strength to 24.
Full Squad:Retained: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Parthiv Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Moeen Ali, Mohammed Siraj, Colin de Grandhomme, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya
Traded: Marcus Stoinis from KXIP
Bought: Shivam Dube, Shimron Hetmyer, Akshdeep Nath, Prayas Barman, Himmat Singh, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Heinrich Klaasen, Devdutt Padikkal, Milind Kumar