$452k a week: Cummins makes IPL history with eye-watering $3.16m deal but he wasn’t the only Austral
- molly510
- Dec 20, 2019
- 1 min read
Australia’s Pat Cummins has become the most expensive overseas buy ever in the Indian Premier League after the Kolkata Knight Riders paid a staggering 155 million rupees ($A3.16 million) for the fast bowler in an auction in Kolkata.
That’s $A452,000 a week for the seven week tournament.
The 26-year-old, ranked No.1 in Tests, attracted an intense bidding war between the Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and the Delhi Capitals on Thursday before Kolkata joined in to bag his services for the 2020 edition of the tournament.
Cummins was part of the Kolkata squad in 2014 and 2015 and last played in the tournament for Delhi in 2017. The Mumbai Indians picked him up the following season but he was ruled out with a back injury.
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