Indian Premier League is the biggest domestic competition in the world and now its in 7th season, which will be taking place after the T20 World Cup 2014. Though the venue has not been confirmed yet as there will be Indian political elections taking place at the same time, so we might see IPL in two halves, where first one will be taking place in India while the other in South Africa or UAE.

The IPL Auction 2014 will be taking place in 12 and 13 February where around 244 players will go under the hammer. Full list of available players can be found here. So today we are going to take a look at top 10 most expensive IPL Players in history and after the Auction we will also place the list which players was the most expensive in 2014 auction.

Most Expensive IPL Players

No#	Player	Team	Money	Auction Year
1	Gautam Ghambir	Kolkata	$2.4 million	2011
2	Yusuf Pathan	Kolkata	$2.1 million	2011
3	Robin Uthappa	Pune	$2.1 million	2011
4	Rohit Sharma	Mumbai	$2 million	2011
5	Ravinder Jadeja	Chennai	$2 million	2012
6	Irfan Pathan	Delhi	$1.9 million	2011
7	Yuvraj Singh	Pune	$1.8 million	2012
8	Kevin Pietersen	Bangalore	$1.55 million	2009
9	Andrew Flintoff	Chennai	$1.55 Million	2009
10	MS Dhoni	Chennai	$1,5 Million	2008

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As you can see most of the expensive players in the top 10 list are from India, while only two foreign players made the list which goes to show good indian players will always be more expensive than the rest of the world.

Pakistan still won’t participate in the IPL cricket, while England might refuse to let their players with central contracts be part of IPL. Check this page after the auction to see if any new entry made it to the list or not.