The Indian Premier League (IPL) players’ auction is back. The famous auctioneer Richard Madley will again be calling the names of the cricketers and the eight franchises will get into a furious bidding war in Bengaluru on Monday.

The IPL Auction is watched by lakhs of cricket fans across the globe as they desperately want to know the fate of their favourite cricketers. For all the fans, here is everything they need to know about the Auction, teams, star cricketers, purse available….

A total of 140 players were retained by 8 franchises, including 44 overseas cricketers

As many as 351 cricketers will go under the hammer, out of which only 1 Indian makes it in the highest base price list

HIGHEST BASE PRICE

Angelo Matthews – 2 crores

Eoin Morgan – 2 crores

Ben Stokes – 2 crores

Ishant Sharma- 2 crores

Mitchell Johnson – 2 crores

Chris Woakes – 2 crores

Pat Cummins – 2 crores

Here is how the IPL franchises stack up

Delhi Daredevils (18 players retained): JP Duminy (South Africa), Mohammed Shami, Quinton de Kock (South Africa), Shahbaz Nadeem, Jayant Yadav, Amit Mishra, Shreyas Iyer, Zaheer Khan, Sanju Samson, Chris Morris (South Africa), Carlos Brathwaite (West Indies), Karun Nair, Rishabh Pant, Chama Milind, Syed Ahmed, Pratyush Singh, Sam Billings (England).

Players released: 7 (3 foreign, 4 Indian)

Purse available: 21.5 crores

Royal Challengers Bangalore (20 players retained): Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers (South Africa), Chris Gayle (West Indies), Mitchell Starc (Australia), Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne (New Zealand), Sarfaraz Khan, S Aravind, Kedar Jadhav, Shane Watson (Australia), Stuart Binny, Samuel Badree (West Indies, Travis Head (Australia), Sachin Baby, Iqbal Abdulla, KL Rahul, Avesh Khan, Tabraiz Shamsi (South Africa)

Players released: 10 (3 foreign, 7 Indian)

Purse available: 12.82 crores

Sunrisers Hyderabad (17 players retained): Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshar Kumar, David Warner (Australia), Moises Henriques (Australia), Naman Ojha, Ricky Bhui, Kane Willamson (New Zealand), Siddarth Kaul, Bipul Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh, Ben Cutting (Australia), Abhimanyu Singh, Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh), Barinder Sran, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar

Players Released: 6 (2 foreign, 4 Indian)

Purse available: 20.9 crores

Mumbai Indians (20 players retained): Rohit Sharma, Kieron Pollard (West Indies), Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka), Harbhajan Singh, Ambati Rayudu, Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Gopal, Lendl Simmons (West Indies), Vinay Kumar, Parthiv Patel, Mitchell McClenaghan (New Zealand), Nitish Rana, Siddhesh Lad, J Suchith, Hardik Pandya, Jos Buttler (England), Tim Southee (New Zealand)

Players Released: 8 (4 foreign, 4 Indian)

Purse available: 11.55 crores

Kolkata Knight Riders (14 players retained): Gautam Gambhir, Sunil Narine (West Indies), Andre Russell (West Indies), Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh), Chris Lynn (Australia), Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Sheldon Jackson, Ankit Rajpoot

Players Released:  (6 foreign, 3 Indian)

Purse available: 19.75 crores

Kings XI Punjab ( 19 players retained): David Miller (South Africa), Manan Vohra, Axar Patel, Glenn Maxwell (Australia), Gurkeerat Mann, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Shaun Marsh (Australia), Wriddhiman Saha, Murali Vijay, Nikhil Naik, Mohit Sharma, Marcus Stoinis (Australia), KC CariarpaArmaan Jaffer, Pardeep Sahu, Swapnil Singh, Hashim Amla (South Africa)

Players Released: 4 (3 foreign, 1 Indian)

Purse available: 23.35 crores

Gujarat Lions (16 players retained): Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, James Faulkner (Australia), Brendon McCullum (New Zealand), Dwayne Bravo (West Indies), Aaron Finch (Australia), Dwayne Smith (West Indies), Dinesh Karthik, Dhawal Kulkarni, Praveen Kumar, Andrew Tye (Australia), Ishan Kishan, Pradeep Sangwan, Shivil Kaushik, Shadab Jakati

Players Released: 8 (1 foreign, 7 Indian)

Purse available: 14.35 crores

Rising Pune Supergiants (16 players retained): MS Dhoni, Ajinkya Rahane, R Ashwin, Steven Smith (Australia), Faf du Plessis (South Africa), Mitchell Marsh (Australia), Ashok Dinda, Ankush Bains, Rajat Bhatia, Ankit Sharma, Ishwar Pandey, Adam Zampa (Australia), Jaskaran Singh, Baba Aparajith, Deepak Chahar, Usman Khawaja (Australia)

Players Released: 11 (6 foreign, 5 Indian)

Purse available: 19.1 crores