Top 5 Most Expensive Uncapped Buy In IPL History

We are going to look at the IPL’s Most Expensive Uncapped players, along with the amount the team paid and in which year. One of the most important roles IPL had was to expose Indian domestic players to other international players so they could grow up to play for India.

Every team spends hours doing recharges and scouting to get information about the domestic player they want to pick in the auction. This is also one of the best chances for any player to do well in the IPL, which makes them play the International T20I format for India directly.

Read about the most expensive uncapped players and the top 5 players sold with the most money.

In the last 26 years of the IPL, we have seen many domestic players get their chance to play for team India, and many foreign players play for their respective countries at the highest level after doing well in the IPL.

The uncapped players also play a major role in every IPL match. The team needs to give one uncapped player a chance because they can play at most four foreign players only, and the other seven players should be Indian.

Recently, as the Indian domestic circuit started to have more T20 format tournaments, more players started to be on the rosters of many IPL teams, and even their prices kept on going high.

Table of 5 Most Expensive Uncapped Players

Player	Team	Price (in ₹ crore)	Year
Avesh Khan	Lucknow Super Giants	10.00	2022
Krishnappa Gowtham	Chennai Super Kings	9.25	2021
Shahrukh Khan	Punjab Kings	9.00	2022
Rahul Tewatia	Gujarat Titans	9.00	2022
Krunal Pandya	Mumbai Indians	8.80	2018
Varun Chakravarthy	Kings XI Punjab	8.40	2019

In 2022, when Lucknow Super Giants also entered the IPL as the new team, Gautam Gambhir put his bid on the uncapped Avesh Khan, who was at that time one of the best pace bowlers in the domestic circuit with great speed. However, he was in Delhi Capitals before as they scouted him but still failed to get the Indian Cap even when he picked 24 wickets in the 2021 IPL season.

Avesh Khan still holds the record of being the most expensive Uncapped player because even in the 2025 IPL auction, Rasikh Salam Dar, the former Delhi Capital player being brought by RCB for 6 Crore, which did not even list him in the Top Five most expensive uncapped players.

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