The BCCI on Friday announced the final list of 574 players for the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction. In which 366 Indian and 208 foreign players are involved. The base price of 81 players is Rs 2 crore.
England's fast bowler Jofra Archer and Australia's all-rounder Cameron Greene have not been included in the auction list. The auction will be held on November 24 and 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
With 204 players available in 10 teams, teams can buy 70 foreign players.
Bihar's 13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi is the youngest player while England's 42-year-old fast bowler James Anderson is the oldest player. The base price of James is Rs 1.25 crore. Vaibhav plays domestic cricket in Bihar.
The auction will start at 3 pm The IPL Mega Auction will start on November 24 at 3 PM. The auction will start from 3 PM on the next day as well. Of the 574 players, 244 are capped, while 330 are uncapped. Among the capped players will be 48 Indians, 193 foreign players and 3 allied players. Among the uncapped players are 318 from India and 12 from abroad.
Archer, Green is not included in this list English fast bowler Jofra Archer and Australian all-rounder Cameron Green have not been included in the list. Both the players had registered at a base price of two crore rupees, but the IPL team did not show interest in these two players.
Archer's name was not included in the final list of players. Archer was part of Mumbai Indians in IPL-2023.
81 players at a base price of 2 crores The base price of uncapped players has been kept at Rs 30 lakh, with 320 players. This time also the biggest base price in the auction is Rs 2 crore, in which the names of 81 players are mentioned. There are 27 players with a base price of 1.50 crore, 18 players with a base price of 1.25 crore and 23 players with a base price of 1 crore.
The base price of Pant and Shreyas is Rs 2 crore The auction will have 2 lists of marquee players. The names of Rishabh Pant, Kagiso Rabada, Jos Buttler, Shreyas Iyer, Arshdeep Singh and Mitchell Starc are included in the first list. The second list includes Yuzvendra Chahal, Liam Livingston, David Miller, KL Rahul, Mohammad Shami and Mohammad Siraj.
10 teams retained 46 players IPL Mega Auction is held once every 3 years. For which this time the team could retain maximum 6 players. 31 October was the last date of retention, on this day 10 teams retained 46 players. Punjab Kings retained the least 2 players. While Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders kept maximum 6 players each.
Highest purse in Punjab Due to retaining only 2 players, Punjab has Rs 110.50 crore left in the auction. After that, Bengaluru is left with Rs 83 crore. 41 crore is the lowest amount outstanding in Rajasthan. Rajasthan and Bengaluru also have no right to match cards. While Punjab has 4 and Bengaluru has 3 RTM cards left.
What is a Right to Match card? All teams retaining less than 6 players will get Right to Match i.e. RTM cards in the auction. With the RTM card, the team will be able to include the previous player in the team.
Let's understand RTM with an example, suppose Glenn Maxwell, who was part of RCB last season, was bought by MI in the auction with a bid of Rs 7 crore. Now RCB can keep Maxwell with them using the RTM card if they want.
However, this time MI will also have the option of increasing the bid for Maxwell. After using the RTM, MI can also bid Rs 10 crore on Maxwell. Now, if RCB wants to keep Maxwell with them, they will have to pay Rs 10 crore. Along with this, his RTM card will be used. If RCB then refuses, Maxwell will go to MI for Rs 10 crore.
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