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The Indian Premier League's (IPL) mega auction is scheduled to take place on February 12 and 13 and two new teams (Ahmedabad and Lucknow) will be a part of the upcoming edition of IPL. 1,214 cricketers have already registered for the tournament and now another cricketer is going to be a part of the grand auction. Former Indian pacer S Sreesanth is believed to be taking part in the upcoming auction after he could not successfully register his name for last year’s auction.
Base price
As per the ESPNcricinfo report, Sreesanth’s base price is going to be INR 50 lakhs.
He has previously been a part of three different IPL teams- Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings), Rajasthan Royals and Kochi Tuskers Kerala (now-defunct).
The Kerala-born pacer has played 44 games in IPL till now and has taken 44 wickets. In terms of batting, he has a strike rate of 61.82.
In 2013, Sreesanth, who was a part of Rajasthan Royals team, faced a ban because of his alleged involvement in the spot-fixing incident that had jolted Indian cricket.
Sreesanth's comeback
The 38-year-old right-arm fast bowler is now aiming to make a comeback to the IPL and will time tell whether he manages to handle this successfully.
Cricketers from different parts of the world- Australia, South Africa, Bhutan, Namibia, Oman and many other countries will feature in the upcoming IPL auction.
The new team Ahmedabad had signed in Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan and Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya and Indian batsman Shubman Gill. Pandya will be seen as the leader of the Ahmedabad side. The prolific Indian all-rounder was signed for Rs 15 crore.
Rashid who was previously a part of Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) was roped in for Rs 15 crore also. Gill on the other hand, who previously had played for the Kolkata Knight Riders franchise was signed for Rs 8 crore.
The other new team, Lucknow, on the other hand roped in KL Rahul as their captain after the former Punjab Kings skipper was signed for Rs 17 crore. It is worth mentioning that in the last season’s IPL Rahul was in terrific form in terms of batting.
Apart from Rahul, the Lucknow team had also roped in players like Australia all-rounder Marcus Stoinis and India’s Ravi Bishnoi.
