SA 20 League Auction: Full list of players, complete squads and costliest buys

SA 20 League Auction: All 6 franchises assembled their squads for the inaugural edition of the South Africa T20 league, which will be held in January 2023. Tristan Stubbs became the costliest player in the auction after he was bought by SunRisers Eastern Cape for R 9.2 million.

As many as 314 players went under the hammer in the auction for the inaugural edition of South Africa’s SA 20 League on Monday, September 19. It was an action-packed bidding process involving all 6 teams where some big names set bidding wars while others, including national team captains Temba Bavuma and Dean Elgar, went unsold.

Tristan Stubbs turned out to be the costliest player in the SA 20 League auction, fetching R 9.1 million. The Mumbai Indians player triggered a bidding war as MI Cape Town and JoBurg Super Kings went after the big-hitting 22-year-old. MI Cape Town went upto R 7 million but it was the SunRisers Eastern Cape who eventually bought him.

South Africa’s Test stars, including Dean Elgar and Keegan Petersen found no takers. In decisions that helped raise eyebrows, South Africa’s white-ball captain Temba Bavuma, who will lead the team in the T20 World Cup in Australia, also went unsold along with all-rounder Andile Phehlukwayo.

Former England captain Eoin Morgan and New Zealand all-rounder James Neesham, who recently gave up national contract, were among the ones who went unsold initially only to find takers in the accelerated round of the auction.

Joburg Super Kings, MI Cape Town, SunRisers Eastern Cape seem to have assembled powerful line-ups with the Super Kings stacking their team with pace for to suit the Highveld conditions.

Notably, all 6 teams were allowed to pick as many as 5 players in the pre-auction draft for the inaugural edition of the SA 20 league, which will be held in January 2023. All 6 teams are owned by the franchise owners of Indian Premier League teams.

Total 17 players, Overseas.6 players