In a mock auction conducted by official broadcasters of IPL, wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant was sold to PBKS for ₹33 crore. "I anticipated his price to soar between ₹26 crore and ₹29 crore...but his eventual price was a record-shattering ₹33 crore, deservedly so," Eoin Morgan, who was representing Team Punjab, said. Notably, Pant was released by DC ahead of mega auction.