IPL Auction 2023 Live Update - Where to Watch, Date, Time, Venue, Retention List, Released Players, Teams, Salary Purse

The biggest cricket league in the world, Indian Premier League will be back for its 16th season in 2023 and the much-awaited IPL auction event will take place this month. All the teams are set to undergo another revamp after last year’s mega auction. Let’s take a look at the details of the upcoming IPL Auction 2023.

A total of 991 players registered for the upcoming IPL auction but a latest BCCI release has revealed that 405 players will go under hammer to fill the remaining 87 slots. Out of 87 free slots, 30 slots are reserved for the overseas players.

The top bracket of players will have a base price of INR 2 crore. 19 overseas players will feature in this top bracket. The next two brackets are priced at INR 1.5 crore and INR 1 crore.

List of the players Sold in IPL 2023 mini-auction (Amount in INR)

IPL Auction 2023 Date, Time & Venue

The IPL auction for the 2023 season will take place on 23rd December, 2022 in Kochi, Kerala. The venue for the auction event is yet to be announced. According to the latest information, the auction will begin at 02:30 PM (IST).

The 16th season of the cash rich tournament will kick-off around the end of March, 2023. The 2 new teams will feature in their 2nd season IPL season which makes the auction much more exciting.

How to watch IPL Auction 2023 live?

Over the last few years, IPL’s auction event has been getting millions of viewers because of which the fans wait eagerly for the IPL auction.

The ease of live streaming on smartphones has brought a huge rise in the IPL auction viewership. After the media rights auction, Star Sports has got the broadcast rights so the viewers can switch to Star Sports channels to watch IPL 2023 auction live on 23rd December.

Viacom18 has won the digitals rights to live stream IPL auction 2023 in India and subcontinent regions. The JioTv or JioCinema app will live stream the IPL auction 2022.

Which teams will participate in the IPL 2023 Auction?

The Indian Premier League 2023 will feature 10 teams after 2 new teams were inducted from the last season. Here is a list of all the teams to take part in the upcoming IPL auction 2023:

IPL Auction 2023 Remaining Purse Limit

The teams have announced the retained and released players list in November. The total spending limit for all the teams has been increased from INR 90 crore to INR 95 crore for the upcoming auction.

As the teams have already spent some amount of the purse limit to retain their players, every team is now left with a different amount of purse left.

Take a look at the list of remaining purse value of all the IPL teams for auction 2023.

Note: Amount in Crores

SRH has the highest value of remaining purse with Rs 42.25 crore left while KKR has the least among of purse left, at Rs 7.05 crore.

Which players are released by IPL teams?

Ahead of the IPL auction 2023, the teams have released many players and the final list of all the released players was revealed in the month of November. We have seen some of the big stars of the IPL history being released this time. Here is the complete list of released players.

IPL Auction 2023 Retention List

Only 87 slots are left to fill in the upcoming IPL mini auction. The teams have retained a long list of players seeing the previous performances. Checkout the full list of all the retained players of the IPL 2023.