Key numbers ahead of the IPL auction

Rs 134.45 crore [approx $22.41 million] The total amount that teams can splurge on Monday. Of all the teams, Delhi Daredevils have the highest purse, with Rs 40 crore [approx $6.67 million] while Chennai Super Kings, with Rs 4.8 crore [approx 0.80 million] have the lowest purse available.

344 Number of players shortlisted for the 2015 auction. Initially, 724 players had expressed interest to be auctioned. The IPL authorities then asked franchises to share names of players they were interested in and the list was pruned accordingly.

Rs 2 crore [approx 0.33 million]. The maximum base price set during the auction. Four players have opted for it - Hashim Amla, Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Karthik and Kevin Pietersen.

88 Maximum number of players that can be bought in the auction. Each squad cannot include more than 27 players. At the moment, 128 players have been signed by all franchises.

60 Maximum number of Indian players available for purchase. No franchise can sign more than 18 Indian players for a season. Currently all eight teams have a total of 84 Indian players on their roster.

28 Maximum number of overseas cricketers who can be signed on Monday. Each franchise can sign nine overseas cricketers at the most. Of the possible 72, 44 have already been signed.

16 Maximum number of player slots available in a franchise. Having offloaded a major chunk of their players, Daredevils now have only 11 players on their roster. Slots available with other teams are: 14 [Sunrisers Hyderabad], 11 [Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians] 10 [Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore], and 8 [Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals].

2 Kevin O'Brien, the Ireland allrounder, and Navdeep Poonia, the Scotland pace bowler, are the only two players from Associate teams to have been shortlisted for this auction. While Poonia has made the cut for the first time, O'Brien has featured in auctions since his exploits at the 2011 World Cup but has never earned a bid.