WATCH: Punjab Kings buy wrong player in IPL 2024 auction, video goes viral

The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 mini-auction has finally concluded. With all the teams acquiring the services of the players, they needed in their squad to bolster it. The auction saw some players going for massive bids and there were some steal deals for the franchises. The two big Australian stars Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins were the two players to get the highest and second highest bid in the history of the IPL auction. They got the money of 24.75 crore INR and 20.50 crore INR respectively from Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). 

During the auction, something hilarious happened. The Punjab Kings (PBKS) committed a mistake in the auction. As they picked the 'wrong player', and the mistake, the franchise did raise the issue with the auctioneer Mallika Sagar but was informed that the bid had already been completed, hence it cannot be reversed.  

The player named Indian uncapped Shashank Singh. Co-owners Ness Wadia, Preity Zinta, and their team made a blunder on the auction table as they mistook the Chattisgarh player and made a mockery of their own auction strategy's video has gone viral on social media. 

Here's the video:

It's not RCB , It's not DC , It's not KKR, It's not SRH, It's not GT

The proper Clowns of ipl is PBKS

They picked the wrong player(who have the same name of the player they want) and acknowledged it infront of every one
🤡pic.twitter.com/tQWaTZ97Ws

— సందీప్ (@ursSAND33P) December 20, 2023

PBKS buy wrong player

Mallika asked, "It was a wrong name? You don't want the player?. We are talking about Shashank Singh. But the hammer has come down. Player No. 236 and 237 both went to you. I think the hammer has come down for 237 (Shashank) as well." The franchise had no other option but to keep the player. 

They bought some good buys in the auction picking English all-rounder Chris Woakes, Harshal Patel who was the highest paid Indian player at 11.75 crore INR and in the end picked Rilee Rossouw as well. 

Punjab Kings squad after auction 

Shikhar Dhawan (c), Matthew Short, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Sikandar Raza, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis, Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa, Shivam Singh, Harshal Patel, Chris Woakes, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Shashank Singh, Tanay Thyagarajann, Prince Choudhary, Rilee Rossouw.