{"id":22483,"date":"2025-12-16T14:58:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=671829"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:28:39","slug":"ipl-2026-auctions-cameron-green-becomes-most-expensive-player-in-ipl-history-sold-to-kkr-at-rs-25-20-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-auctions-cameron-green-becomes-most-expensive-player-in-ipl-history-sold-to-kkr-at-rs-25-20-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 Auctions: Cameron Green becomes most expensive player in IPL history, sold to KKR at Rs 25.20 crore\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian all-rounder <strong>Cameron Green<\/strong> created history at the <strong>IPL 2026 mini-auction in Abu Dhabi<\/strong>, becoming the <strong>most expensive player ever in IPL history<\/strong> after an intense bidding war that eventually saw <strong>Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) secure him for Rs 25.20 crore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The bidding for Green began smoothly but quickly escalated as <strong>KKR and Rajasthan Royals (RR)<\/strong> showed early interest, with the price <strong>crossing Rs 10 crore in the initial phase<\/strong>. RR stayed in the contest until <strong>Rs 13.60 crore<\/strong>, before bowing out when <strong>Chennai Super Kings (CSK)<\/strong> entered the fray.<\/p>\n<p>What followed was a dramatic head-to-head battle between <strong>CSK and KKR<\/strong>. The bidding crossed <strong>Rs 16 crore<\/strong>, then surged past <strong>Rs 17 crore<\/strong>, with KKR going to <strong>Rs 17.20 crore<\/strong>. At <strong>Rs 18 crore<\/strong>, Green became one of the highest-valued players in auction history, but the fight was far from over.<\/p>\n<p>CSK pushed the price to <strong>Rs 19 crore<\/strong>, making Green a <strong>top-three most expensive player<\/strong> at that point. KKR then stunned the auction room by touching <strong>Rs 20 crore<\/strong>, making Green only the <strong>third player in IPL history to breach the Rs 20 crore mark<\/strong>, after <strong>Mitchell Starc (Rs 24.75 crore to KKR in 2024)<\/strong> and <strong>Pat Cummins (Rs 20.50 crore to SRH in 2024)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The duel intensified further as CSK bid <strong>Rs 23 crore<\/strong>, only for KKR to respond with <strong>Rs 24 crore<\/strong>, surpassing Starc\u2019s record. The final blow came at <strong>Rs 25.20 crore<\/strong>, with KKR sealing the deal and rewriting IPL auction history.<\/p>\n<p>Green, who previously played for <strong>Mumbai Indians (2023)<\/strong> and <strong>Royal Challengers Bengaluru (2024)<\/strong>, missed the <strong>2025 season due to a lower back injury that required surgery<\/strong>. Fully recovered and cleared to bowl, he entered the auction amid huge anticipation. Across <strong>29 IPL matches<\/strong>, Green has scored <strong>707 runs at an average of 41.59 and a strike rate of 153.70<\/strong>, while also picking up <strong>16 wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Green had earlier been the <strong>fourth-most expensive player in IPL history<\/strong> when Mumbai Indians signed him for <strong>Rs 17.5 crore in 2023<\/strong>, a record for an Australian player at the time.<\/p>\n<p>With this Rs 25.20 crore deal, <strong>Cameron Green now stands alone as the most expensive player ever bought at an IPL auction<\/strong>, marking a landmark moment in league history and underlining KKR\u2019s intent heading into IPL 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian all-rounder Cameron Green created history at the IPL 2026 mini-auction in Abu Dhabi, becoming the most expensive player ever\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4057],"class_list":["post-22483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-top-stories"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}