India seamers Harshal Patel and Shardul Thakur were placed in the highest price bracket of Rs 2 crore as the Indian Premier League (IPL) Governing Council on Monday released the final list of players set to go under the hammer on 19 December in Dubai.
Besides Patel and Thakur, senior India pacer Umesh Yadav too has been slotted in the Rs 2 crore price bracket as the IPL GC trimmed the list down to 333 players from the 1,166 who had applied for this year’s mini-auction, which takes place in Dubai’s Coca-Cola Arena and will be the first to take place outside India.
Patel had gone for Rs 10.75 crore in the 2022 mega auction. Thakur, meanwhile, had to everyone’s surprise been released by the Kolkata Knight Riders on IPL Retention Day (26 November) as two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders went for an overhaul.
Of the 333 in the final list, 214 are Indians and 119 are overseas players — including two from Associate nations. A maximum of 77 slots can be filled across the 10 franchise, including 30 overseas slots for which the likes of Australians Pat Cummins and Travis Head, New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra and South Africa’s Gerald Coetzee will be in great demand.
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Cummins, Head as well as wicketkeeper-batter Josh Inglis and pacer Mitchell Starc are all in the 2-crore bracket, while New Zealand batting all-rounder Ravindra finds himself at a relatively modest base price of Rs 50 lakh.
Another player likely to generate a lot of interest in the upcoming auction is Sri Lanka leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga, who had missed out on the ICC World Cup due to injury and was subsequently released by the Royal Challengers Bangalore. Hasaranga has been placed in the Rs 1.5 crore category.
The 10 franchises have a combined purse of Rs 262.95 crore for the auction with Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), which had finished at the bottom of the 10-team table this year, having the biggest purse (Rs 34 crore).
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