IPL 2026 Auction: R Ashwin made some brilliant predictions for the IPL mini auction, which includes Chennai Super Kings buying two uncapped players, Prashant Veer and Kartik Sharma. Just a few minutes before these players were bought, R Ashwin had already shared on his X account that these two players would be playing for CSK next year.
And this is exactly what happened as both Veer and Sharma created history after being roped in by CSK for a whopping amount of Rs 14.2 cr, and this was the most any franchise has spent on any uncapped player.
Owing to his experience, Ashwin was reluctant to make such predictions, but a few fans thought that he had the information beforehand and that he leaked their auction plans and helped other teams to inflate the duo's price.
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“How are you guys able to believe these lies?" Ashwin had written to his account while replying to a query.
And then Ashwin replied hilariously to a claim that he reasoned why they didn't buy someone like Jason Holder or Mustafizur Rahman, and spent a lot of their budget on these two players.
“The Orange Army had Muralitharan, Vettori, analysts, and scouts sitting at the table and yet showed faith in my tweets," he added.
How CSK Spent Their Budget At IPL 2026 Auction?
They had the second biggest purse of all the 10 teams of Rs 43.4 and had 9 slots remaining. They first bought Akeal Hosein at his base price of Rs 2 crore.
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The other players that they bought are specialist batter in Sarfaraz Khan (Rs 75 lakh), four all-rounders in Prashant Veer (Rs 14.2 crore), Matthew Short (Rs 1.5 crore), Zakary Foulks (Rs 75 lakh) and Aman Khan (Rs 40 lakh), three specialist bowlers in Rahul Chahar (Rs 5.2 crore), Hosein (Rs 2 crore) and Matt Henry (Rs 2 crore) and a wicketkeeper-batter in Kartik Sharma (Rs 14.2 crore).