IPL Player Auction 2018: South Africans Who Have Failed To Deliver

“Hope and despair will walk hand in hand when some of the world cricket’s biggest names go under the hammer during the two-day IPL players” auctions starting on Saturday with the likes of Ben Stokes and R Ashwin expected to be among the most sought after.This year’s auction will feature 578 players in all with 361 of them being Indians.

Pandey amassed 401 runs at a strike-rate of 117.94, including two fifties in the 2014 season – the year KKR lifted the IPL trophy for the second time.

The meteoric rise of Rashid Khan, the face of Afghanistan cricket, from playing tennis-ball cricket has been a key factor in the team being accorded Test status a year ago, giving fans from the warn-torn nation a lot to cheer.

Right To Match cards:Franchises could retain five players with either three through direct retention or three through Right to Match cards that will be used during the auctions.

“The eight franchises have given us an indication of what their core would be with their player retentions”, IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla said.

They were for Shikhar Dhawan, but to their dismay, the Sunrisers Hyderabad bagged the Indian left-handed batsman back via the Right to Match (RTM) card.

How does the IPL season work? Starc will challenge Steve Smith and David Warner – who were retained by their teams for $1.9 m each – to become Australia’s highest-paid IPL player. Generally, most teams come prepared with who they want to have in their armoury and have no hesitation in breaking their bank for a few of them when many parties get involved.

The marquee lot will be followed by capped and uncapped players – batsmen, allrounders, wicketkeepers, fast bowlers and spinners (in that order) – being alternated. Also included in the list are 2 cricketers from Associate Nations. The other four franchises have three RTMs, each having retained no more than two players.

Yes. Each franchise will have to have a minimum of 18 players and a maximum of 25 players at the end of the auction.

Who are the players retained? The Chennai Super Kings retained MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja. Aussie batsman Chris Lynn went to Kolkata Knight Riders for 9 crores 60 lakhs, and so did his fellow countryman pacer Mitchell Starc for nearly same amount.

Royals and Kings XI went onto continue the bidding war before the Kings finally bagged the Tamil Nadu tweaker for Rs 7.60 crore. Gayle had set his base price at INR 2 crore (USD 312,500 approx), and Malinga at INR 1 crore (USD 156,000 approx). A whole load of talented players is in the list and it all depends on who the teams want.

Quite rightly, he was among the marquee players in the ongoing auctions in Bangalore. There have been occasions when players hitherto unheard of have gone for huge amounts while teams have remained silent when accomplished names have been read out by the auctioneer Richard Madley. The 26-year-old paceman and left-hand batsman is in the top bracket, with a base price of $312,500.

Royal Challengers Bangalore bought Chris Woakes for Rs 7.4 crore, and Umesh Yaadav for Rs 4.2 crore while New Zealand’s Colin de Grandhomme and England’s Moeen Ali were bought for Rs 2.2 and Rs 1.7 crore respectively.

Offspinner Harbhajan Singh opened the second round of bidding, attracting only one bid and going at his base price of INR 2 crore (USD 312,000 approx) to Super Kings.