New Replacements in KKR and SRH

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In KKR, Gurkeerat Singh will be replacing Rinku Singh for the forthcoming 14th edition of IPL, which will begin on the 9th of April.

Rinku Singh, the 23-year-old Uttarpradesh batsmen, will be unavailable for the entire season due to his knee injury. Kolkata Knight Riders issued the statement on Saturday. He made his debut in IPL in 2017 and played a total of 11 IPL games.

Gurkeerat Singh, the 30-year-old Punjab all-rounder, played 41 IPL matches since his debut in 2012. In his IPL career, he played for King XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings), Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals), and Royal Challengers Bangalore.

KKR acquired Gurkeerat Singh for 50 Lakhs, his base price. He played at least two matches a season, except in 2018. In which, he scored 511 runs including two half-centuries and he also picked two wickets in 2016.

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Jason Roy, a 30-year-old, English batsmen signed up for Sunrisers Hyderabad replacing Mitchel Marsh. Marsh opted out of IPL due to personal reasons.

Jason Roy made his debut in 2017 with Gujarat Lions in IPL and later joined the Delhi Daredevils in the 2018 edition. During the Auction, no team bid for him. During the England tour of India, he played beautiful innings and made the limelight again fall back on him.

In IPL, Roy has played a total of eight matches and scored 179 runs. He signed Sunrisers Hyderabad for his base price of two crores.

Axar Patel tests positive for coronavirus

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Axar Patel, a 27-year-old Delhi capitals all-rounder in the upcoming 14th edition of the Indian Premier League tests positive for the coronavirus today.

On his arrival, the player submitted a negative test report before joining the team in Mumbai for practice sessions. But on the second test after arrival, he tested positive for the virus. The player is in a secure bio-bubble during his sessions over time.

The player is currently in isolation according to the BCCI procedure and the players who are in contact with him will be tested again for the virus. 

The team has already missed their captain due to a shoulder injury in an ODI match against England and they also miss their star all-rounder who performed well in the previous season.

Currently, the team is practising in Barbourne Stadium, Mumbai. The stadium officials have barred access to outsiders in the areas where the team is accessing.

Axar Patel is the second player after Kolkata Knight Riders player Nitish Rana contracted the virus in Mumbai. Rana went into twelve days of extended quarantine and joined the team later after testing negitive.

The Delhi Capitals team is going to miss two important players ahead of the IPL. These players helped the team to win crucial matches in the last two year and took the teams to qualifiers and finals. The team might struggle to fill the gap with other players.

Here is the official announcement from Delhi Capitals

🚨 UPDATE 🚨

Delhi Capitals all-rounder #AxarPatel has tested positive for COVID-19. He had checked into the team hotel in Mumbai on Mar 28, 2021, with a negative report. His report from the second COVID test, came positive. pic.twitter.com/CjRKlfzvWR

— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) April 3, 2021

RGIC Stadium as backup option for BCCI

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As the coronavirus cases are soring in Maharashtra, BCCI has already kept the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium (RGIC) at Hyderabad as the backup option in case if necessary, reported CricTracker.

If you carefully observe the IPL schedule, the teams only need to travel thrice during the tournament. The schedule is designed in such a way that teams require to move less compared to normal IPL.

As of now, no team has received a message from BCCI to move from Mumbai to Hyderabad, reported by ESPNCricinfo.

The coronavirus cases are rising daily in Maharashtra, during the press meet, Chief Minister said, complete lockdown of the state is inevitable if, the COVID-19 cases are increasing at an alarming rate with no alternate solution in sight.

BCCI is confident that players will be fine under the protocols and bio-bubbles. Even though the matches will be played behind closed doors, the state government might object to the match being played if, the state is in lockdown.

If any of the state government is forced to cancel the matches at any of the venues in the schedule, the matches are immediately shifted to Hyderabad.

Eight groundsmen at Wankhede Stadium test positive

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Sports Star reported that eight groundsmen at the Mumbai Wankhede Stadium tested positive for the coronavirus just a week ahead of the 14th edition of the Indian Premier League.

Out of 19 members who are tested, eight of them were tested positive. Three of them were confirmed on March 26th and the remaining five members tested positive on the 1st of April.

Recently, the Maharastra government announced that the Lockdown is imminent if the coronavirus cases are continued to surging in the state.

In this situation, the BCCI has to take stricter action towards the virus protocols of the players. Even though the spectators are not allowed to watch the game, the threat of virus contracting to the players is high.

In my view, the matches will be played as planned with a lot of caution towards the virus. If the Maharastra government forced BCCI, the matches will be played elsewhere with the same schedule.

Watch RCB Head Coach Simon say about his role in auction

During the IPL auction time, the Australian government and Indian government requires a two-week mandatory quarantine on each side. So the RCB management and the team head coach Simon worked online during the auction times.

 He shares, how his family appreciated the efforts of the team management by allowing him to take part in crucial team meeting through zoom calls from Australia even in awkward timings.

And he explained how the team got ready for the auction by placing the scouting team to search the players for the Auction.

You can watch the video here.

AB de Villiers joins the RCB team in Chennai

 AB de Villers joins the team just before a week for practice sessions in Chennai. The team is scheduled for their first match on the 9th of April 2021 against the Mumbai Indians.

Royal Challengers Bangalore qualified for the semi-finals despite losing to Sunriser Hyderabad, an important match on the league stage and lost again to the same team in the eliminators.

This year the is expected to do well unlike the previous year. 

Mr. 360 has posted on his Instagram saying that he is joining the team.

Loving the form @imVkohli .. I’m all packed to join the team pic.twitter.com/6rBIV3T3EH

— AB de Villiers (@ABdeVilliers17) March 29, 2021

The Royal Challengers Bangalore team released a video of the skipper joining them in Chennai.

Josh Hazelwood to stay out of 14th edition of IPL

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Australian cricketer, Josh Hazelwood has dropped out of the 14 edition of IPL. The player supposed to play for Chennai Super Kings for this season has taken this decision, as he is in either bio bubble or quarantine for the last 10 months playing cricket for CSL or for his country.

He said I want to get ready physically and mentally at home for the next year to cricket.com.au. As there is a T- Twenty world cup and Ashes tournament ahead for the player for 12 months after completing the IPL.

Hazlewood didn't play many matches for the Super Kings last year. He just played in only three matches as they lined up their bowling with domestic options alongside all-rounders Sam Curran and Dwayne Bravo for the most part.

He joined the list of players who are missing the tournament.

 Chennai Super Kings official Twitter page tweeted that he would be missed this year.

Will be missing some Josh this #Summerof2021! Hoping for some aussome action soon in #Yellove! #WhistlePodu 💛 🦁 pic.twitter.com/cTRGbFvHP7

— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) April 1, 2021

Delhi Capitals Training Session

 Delhi Capitals just posted the pictures of their training session for the upcoming 14th edition of the Indian Premier League. Recently, the team announced 23-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman, Rishab Pant, as the team's captain after ruling out Shreyas Iyer for a shoulder injury.

The skipper will undergo surgery on the 9th of April, just a day ahead of the teams first match. He congratulated Rishab Pant and welcomed the team management decision.

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Here is the video of the first-day training session of the Delhi Capitals for the upcoming IPL.

 

Punjab Kings training camps for 2021 IPL

 Here are a few images from the Punjab Kings training camp for the upcoming 14th edition of the Indian Premier League. The team is practising in Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. 

If you are following the Punjab Kings Instagram page you can see the insta stories related to these pictures. 

In one of the Insta stories, you can see that Mayank Agrawal is tracing the flower from the hotel walls to submit a picture as a part of the team activity and calls it education.

*All the Above images are from the www.punjabkingsipl.in

In the video Punjab Kings coach, Anil Kumble said that the team missed narrowly qualifying for the top four with a few bad decisions last year. This year we will keep everything aside and focus on playing the matches well and looking forward to playing this IPL.  

List English Commentators for Indian Premier League 2021

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Unlike last year, this year the IPL is played in India without spectators in the stadium with few new rules. The time limit for the 20 overs is now 90 minutes and the new soft signal rule. 

"The on-field umpire giving soft signal while referring the decision to the third umpire will not be applicable," the BCCI stated.

The broadcasting team of the Indian Premier League Just announced the list of commentators for the 2021 edition of the Indian Premier League who are going to entertain the viewers with their commentary. 

 Here is the list of English Commentators for the Indian Premier League 2021 edition

1. Ian Bishop 
2. Simon Dull
3. Harsha Bhogle
4. Lisa Sthalekar
5. Danny Morrison
6. Matthew Hayden
7. Murali Karthik
8. Mark Nicholas
9. Mel Jones
10. Alan Wilkins
11. Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
12. Sunil Gavaskar
13. Mark Salter
14. Kevin Peterson
15. Deep Dasgupta
16. Poomie Mbangwa

Punjab Kings unveiled their new jersey for 2021 IPL

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In 2021, Preeti Zinta co-owned Indian Premier League franchise has got huge modifications in the team, name and jersey too.

At first, the team changed its name from Kings IX Punjab to Punjab Kings, then they brought entirely new players by spending a huge amount in the 2021 auction held in Chennai. 

Today, the team has unveiled their new jersey for the players. A video was released on the team's official handle, in it, a red jersey with golden font is shown with the captain of their team K L Rahul's name and number on it.

According to the report, the players are going to wear golden helmets along with Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore who are wearing them for the past few years.

IPL 2021: Punjab Kings squad

Retained players: KL Rahul, Arshdeep Singh, Chris Gayle, Darshan Nalkande, Harpreet Brar, Mandeep Singh, Mayank Agarwal, Mohd. Shami, M Ashwin, Nicholas Pooran, Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Ishan Porel, Ravi Bishnoi, Chris Jordan, Prabhsimran Singh.

Players bought at Auction: Jhye Richardson (Rs 14 crore), Shahrukh Khan (Rs 5.25 crore), Dawid Malan (Rs 1.5 crore), Riley Meredith (Rs 8 crore), Moises Henriques (Rs 4.20 crore), Jalaj Saxena (Rs 30 lakhs), Utkarsh Singh (Rs 20 lakhs), Fabian Allen (Rs 75 lakh), Saurabh Kumar (Rs 20 lakh).

Here is the video of the New Jersey

Adam Zampa to miss the first match of IPL

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Adam Zampa 29-year old, Royal Challengers Bangalore retained leg spinner to miss the selection for the first match against Mumbai Indians on the 9th of April due to his marriage.

Royal Challengers Bangalore director Mike Henson confirmed the news via a video on the official RCB Twitter page. And also said most of the overseas player might not be available for the first match. 

You can watch the video here

RCB’s IPL 2021 Camp and Player Availability

When’s the pre-season camp starting? When are the overseas players arriving? On @myntra presents Bold Diaries, Mike Hesson leaves no room for speculations ahead of #VivoIPL2021.#PlayBold #WeAreChallengers #IPL2021 #Classof2021 pic.twitter.com/yxBFNYVwW8

— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets) March 24, 2021

In this video, Mike Henson also explained how the overseas players and the Indian players will be joining the team after their ongoing domestic/international matches. A few of them are already quarantining in Chennai. Head coach Simon Katich's arrival from Australia has been delayed due to a documentation issue.

The Transfer of the Indian players who are playing against England in Pune in a secure bio-bubble is easy to transfer from bubble to bubble. Whereas the senior players who are coming from other countries are kind of hard to transfer.

The players will be arriving in India till April 1st in a staggered manner, as the time is shorter to prepare for the matches it's kind of hard said, Mike Henson.

Shreyas Iyer to Miss entire IPL 2021

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Delhi Capitals captain, Shreyas Iyer to miss the entire 14th edition of the Indian Premier League due to a shoulder injury in the 1st One Day International match against England on March 23rd.

The skipper tried to catch the ball during the 8th over of the match and fell on the left shoulder. Immidealty, he was rushed out of the field by his fellow teammates.

The scan of his shoulder shown a subluxation (partially dislocated) in his shoulder and is likely to undergo major surgery in the month of April. 

According to the reports, Shreyas might take 4-5 months of leave from the sport to heal his injury. Hopefully, he might be back by the T-Twenty world championship.

Meanwhile, the Delhi capitals need to find a new captain for their team and also a new batsman at the middle order. The question is who is going to take his position in the team and take the team towards the finals of IPL 14th edition.

Delhi Capitals extraordinarily well compared to other big teams in the season under Shreyas captaincy. This news is a big blow for the team who are looking to actually grab the cup this year.

BCCI Released the IPL schedule for 2021

On March 7th, BCCI released the schedule for India Premier League for 2021 and stated that the matches will be played behind closed door due to the ongoing pandemic.

Here are some highlights of the Schedule

The first match is played between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challenger Bangalore in Chennai M.A Chidambaram Stadium on April 9th.

The stadiums and the teams playing in the stadium are irrelevant - it is unlikely that the Chennai team will play in Chennai and other teams too, as the BCCI planned less movement to ensure the COVID protocol are in place. So each team will travel only three times during the league stage.

If you observe the IPL schedule carefully only two stadiums are used at any given point in time. After using these two stadiums, the matches are shifting to another two stadiums. So, there is no wonder why the teams are not playing on their home grounds at any given point.

Stadiums Using in the IPL 2021

Chennai - M.A Chidambaram Stadium

Mumbai - Wankhede Stadium

Kolkata - Eden Gardens

Bangalore - Chinnaswamy stadium

Ahmadabad - Motera Stadium

Delhi - Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium

Delhi and Ahmedabad host eight matches each and the remaining all stadiums host 10 matches each in the league stage.

Double Matches on weekends

There will be a total of 11 doubleheaders where 6 teams will play three-afternoon matches & two teams will play two-afternoon matches. The afternoon games start at 3:30 PM IST and the evening games will start at 7:30 PM IST.

Qualifiers

The first qualifier match is on the 25th of May, Eliminator is on the 26th, the second qualifier is on 28th and the final is on the 30th of May. All these matches are going to take place in Ahmedabad Motera Stadium.

Where to stream the matches

You can stream the matches in Disney Plus Hotstar app by paying a minimum of ₹365 per annum or you can watch it on Star Sports by paying to your DTH or cable operator.

IPL Schedule

You can download the IPL Schedule at https://hpurl.tk/IPLcal

Chances of postponement of the Tournament

BCCI successfully hosted last year’s tournament with strict protocols and bio bubbles. But the tournament is postponed as the covid cases are increasing in the country.

There is a high chance that this tournament might be postponed again this year as the Covid cases in Maharashtra are increasing. If the local government impose or the central government impose any stricter rules to seize the virus, there will be the slightest chance that these matches might take place.

BCCI can argue that there will not be any crowd involved in the entire tournament and allow them to play the matches.

Let’s hope for the best that the tournament will be played without any disturbances from the government and the virus.

Indian Premier League 2021 Teams Squads

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Here is the list of players with their teams for the Indian Premier League 2021.

 Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)

Virat Kohli ® Batsman 17 crore

Devdutt Padikkal ® Batsman 20 lakhs

Sachin Baby Batsman 20 lakhs

Rajat Patidar Batsman 20 lakhs

Suyash Prabhudessai Batsman 20 lakhs

KS Bharat Batsman 20 lakhs

Josh Philippe ® Wicket-keeper 20 lakh

AB de Villiers ® Wicket-keeper 11 crore

Mohammed Azharuddeen Wicket-keeper 20 lakhs

Washington Sundar ® All-Rounder 3.2 crore

Shahbaz Ahmed ® All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Pawan Deshpande ® All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Glenn Maxwell All-Rounder 14.25 crore

Daniel Christian All-Rounder 4.8 crore

Kyle Jamieson Bowler 15 crore

Navdeep Saini ® Bowler 3 crore

Mohammed Siraj ® Bowler 2.6 crore

Adam Zampa ® Bowler 1.5 crore

Yuzvendra Chahal ® Bowler 6 crore

Kane Richardson ® Bowler 4 crore

*R- Retained

The RCB squad now has 22 players after the IPL 2021 auction. They picked 5 Indian domestic players and 3 foreign stars to complete their squad. The 26-year-old Kyle Jamieson has been added to the RCB squad alongside Australians Dan Christian and Glenn Maxwell. The latter, who failed to hit a single six in the entire IPL 2020 season, was picked for Rs. 14.25 crores. He had already dreamt of playing alongside Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers and he got his wish.

Mumbai Indians Squad (MI)

 

Player Role Price

Rohit Sharma ® Batsman 15 crore

Surya Kumar Yadav ® Batsman 3.20 crore

Anmolpreet Singh ® Batsman 80 lakhs

Chris Lyn ® Batsman 2 crore

Anukul Roy Batsman 20 lakhs

Ishan Kishan ® Wicket Keeper 6.20 crore

Quinton de Kock ® Wicket Keeper 2.80 crore

Aditya Tare ® Wicket Keeper 20 lakhs

Hardik Pandya ® All-Rounder 11 crore

Krunal Pandya ® All-Rounder 8.80 crore

Kieron Pollard ® All-Rounder 5.40 crore

James Neesham All-Rounder 50 lakhs

Yudhvir Charak All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Arjun Tendulkar All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Rahul Chahar ® All-Rounder 1.90 crore

Nathan Coulter Nile Bowler 5 Crore

Adam Milne Bowler 3.2 crore

Piyush Chawla Bowler 2.4 crore

Marco Jansen Bowler 20 lakhs

Jayant Yadav ® Bowler 50 lakhs

Trent Boult ® Bowler 3.20 crore

Jasprit Bumrah ® Bowler 7 crore

Mohsin Khan ® Bowler 20 lakhs

*R- Retained

When it comes to judging IPL 2021 squads, hardly anyone can argue that MI possesses the strongest of them all. The MI management smartly picked up their foreign bowlers in Adam Milne and Nathan Coulter-Nile and the all-rounder from New Zealand, James Neesham. They filled their quota of a senior leg-spinner in Piyush Chawla as well. Their scouts followed Yudhvir Charak and Marco Jensen and managed to get them on their side. The IPL 2021 auction came to an end with the junior Tendulkar, Arjun, being picked by MI for his base price of Rs. 20 lakhs.

Chennai Super Kings Squad (CSK)

Player Role Price

Suresh Raina ® Batsman 11 crore

Faf du Plessis ® Batsmen 1.60 crore

Ruturaj Gaikwad ® Batsman 20 lakhs

Ambati Rayudu ® Batsman 2.20 crore

Cheteshwar Pujara Batsman 50 lakhs

C Hari Nishanth Batsman 20 lakhs

MS Dhoni ® Wicket Keeper 15 crore

Narayan Jagadeesabn ® Wicket Keeper 20 lakhs

KM Asif ® All-Rounder 40 lakhs

Karn Sharma ® All-Rounder 5 crore

Dwayne Bravo ® All-Rounder 6.40 crore

Sam Curran ® All-Rounder 5.50 crore

Ravindra Jadeja ® All-Rounder 7 crore

Moeen Ali All-Rounder 7 crore

K Gowtham All-Rounder 9.25 crore

Shardul Thakur ® Bowler 2.60 crore

Mitchell Santner ® Bowler 50 lakhs

Lungi Ngidi ® Bowler 50 lakhs

Imran Tahir ® Bowler 1 crore

Josh Hazlewood ® Bowler 2 crore

Deepak Chahar ® Bowler 80 lakhs

M Harisankar Reddy Bowler 20 lakhs

K. Bhagath Varma Bowler 20 lakhs

*R- Retained

The MS Dhoni-led side grabbed eyeballs with the peculiar addition of Cheteshwar Pujara to their squad. CSK owner, K Viswanath revealed the pick to be ‘out of respect for Pujara’s contribution to India’ and there has been no doubt about that. CSK grabbed Moeen Ali, who scored a raving quickfire 18-ball 43 at CSK’s home, the Chepauk in a Test match just a couple of days before the auction. Ali was joined by Karnataka all-rounder K Gowtham to solve CSK’s off-spin conundrum. They also picked three domestic players in MH Reddy, KB Varma and CH Nishaanth to complete their tally of 25 players.

Delhi Capitals Squad (DC)

Player Role Price

Shikhar Dhawan ® Batsman 5.20 crore

Prithvi Shaw ® Batsman 1.20 crore

Ajinkya Rahane ® Batsman 5.25 crore

Shimron Hetmyer ® Batsman 7.75 crore

Shreyas Iyer ® Batsman 7 crore

Steven Smith Batsman 2.2 crore

Sam Billings Batsman 2 crore

Ripal Patel Batsman 20 lakhs

Vishnu Vinod Batsman 20 lakhs

Rishabh Pant ® Wicket Keeper 15 crore

Pravin Dubey ® All-Rounder 10 lakh

Lalit Yadav ® All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Tom Curran All-Rounder 5.25 crore

Marcus Stoinis ® All-Rounder 4.80 crore

Kagiso Rabada ® Bowler 4.20 crore

Anrich Nortje ® Bowler 30 lakhs

Chris Woakes ® Bowler 1.5 crore

Axar Patel ® Bowler 5 crore

Daniel Sams ® Bowler -

Amit Mishra ® Bowler 4 crore

Harshal Patel ® Bowler 20 lakhs

Ishant Sharma ® Bowler 1.10 crore

Avesh Khan ® Bowler 70 lakhs

Ravichandran Ashwin ® Bowler 7.60 crore

Umesh Yadav Bowler 1 crore

Lukman Meriwala Bowler 20 lakhs

M Siddharth Bowler 20 lakhs

*R- Retained

The runners-up of IPL 2020 began the IPL 2021 auction with a steal buy of Steve Smith for just Rs 2.20 crores. Later in the day, they also roped in Tom Curran and Sam Billings to end their day. With the foreigners being signed up towards both ends, the Capitals also bought 5 Indian players including the pacer Umesh Yadav to complete their 25 players for the upcoming season.

Punjab Lions Squad (PBKS)

Player Role Price

Arshdeep Singh ® Batsman 20 lakhs

Nicholas Pooran ® Batsman 4.20 crore

Chris Gayle ® Batsman 2 crore

Prabhsimran Singh ® Batsman 55 lakhs

Mayank Agarwal ® Batsman 1 crore

Sarfaraz Khan ® Batsman 25 lakhs

Harpreet Brar ® Batsman 20 lakhs

Darshan Nalkande ® Batsman 30 lakhs

Dawid Malan Batsman 1.5 crore

Shahrukh Khan Batsman 5.25 crore

KL Rahul © ® Wicket Keeper 11 crore

Chris Jordan ® All-Rounder 3 crore

Mandeep Singh ® All-Rounder 1.40 crore

Deepak Hooda ® All-Rounder 50 lakhs

Moises Henriques All-Rounder 4.2 crore

Jalaj Saxena All-Rounder 30 lakhs

Utkarsh Singh All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Saurabh Kumar Bowler 20 lakhs

Jhye Richardson Bowler 14 crore

Riley Meredith Bowler 8 crore

Mohammed Shami ® Bowler 4.80 crore

Ravi Bishnoi ® Bowler 2 crore

Ishan Porel ® Bowler 20 lakhs

Murugan Ashwin ® Bowler 20 lakhs

*R- Retained

Preity Zinta was at the helm of things for the fourteenth year in a row, but this time with a changed name on the jersey. The ‘Punjab Kings’ had plenty of money in their purse but couldn’t really manage the high profile picks in IPL 2021 auction. They were lucky to get the No. 1 ranked ICC T20I batsman in Dawid Malan for just Rs 1.5 crores but weren’t at their best for the rest of the day. PBKS have got three X-factor foreigners like Jhye Richardson, Moises Henriques and Fabian Allen along with four domestic Indian players.

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)

Player Role Price

Eoin Morgan ® Batsman 5.25 crore

Sheldon Jackson Batsman 20 lakhs

Harry Gurney ® Batsman 75 lakhs

Karun Nair Batsman 50 lakhs

Nitish Rana ® Batsman 3.40 crore

Shubman Gill ® Batsman 1.80 crore

Rinku Singh ® Batsman 80 lakhs

Rahul Tripathi ® Batsman 60 lakhs

Dinesh Karthik ® Wicket Keeper 7.40 crore

Sunil Narine ® All-Rounder 12.50 crore

Andre Russell ® All-Rounder 8.50 crore

Shakib Al Hasan All-Rounder 3.2 crore

Ben Cutting All-Rounder 75 lakhs

Pawan Negi All-Rounder 50 lakhs

Venkatesh Iyer All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Pat Cummins ® Bowler 15.5 crore

Varun Chakravarthy ® Bowler 4 crore

Lockie Ferguson ® Bowler 1.60 crore

Kuldeep Yadav ® Bowler 5.80 crore

Kamlesh Nagarkoti ® Bowler 3.20 crore

Shivam Mavi ® Bowler 3 crore

Prasidh Krishna ® Bowler 20 lakhs

Sandeep Warrier ® Bowler 20 lakhs

Harbhajan Singh Bowler 2 crore

Vaibhav Arora Bowler 20 lakhs

*R- Retained

KKR picked two veteran spinners, Harbhajan Singh and all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan for IPL 2021. They will be very happy with their outing in the auction as they also got the Australian all-rounder Ben Cutting along with Indians Karun Nair and Pawan Negi, who has a healthy IPL experience in their kitties. KKR also got three domestic players with the veteran Sheldon Jackson making a comeback to the side.

Rajasthan Royals (RR)

 

Player Role Price

Manan Vohra ® Batsman 20 lakhs

David Miller ® Batsman 75 lakhs

Riyan Parag ® Batsman 20 lakhs

Yashasvi Jaiswal ® Batsman 2.40 crore

Robin Uthappa ® Batsman 3 crore

Sanju Samson (Captain) ® Wicket Keeper 8 crore

Jos Buttler ® Wicket Keeper 4.40 crore

Anuj Rawat ® Wicket Keeper 80 lakhs

Ben Stokes ® All-Rounder 12.50 crore

Mahipal Lomror ® All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Rahul Tewatia ® All-Rounder 3 crore

Shreyas Gopal ® All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Shivam Dube All-Rounder 4.4 crore

Chris Morris All-Rounder 16.25 crore

Jofra Archer ® Bowler 7.20 crore

Jaydev Unadkat ® Bowler 3 crore

Kartik Tyagi ® Bowler 1.30 crore

Mayank Markande ® Bowler 2 crore

Andrew Tye ® Bowler 1 crore

Mustafizur Rahman Bowler 1 crore

Chetan Sakariya Bowler 1.2 crore

KC Cariappa Bowler 20 lakhs

Liam Livingstone Bowler 75 lakhs

Kuldip Yadav Bowler 20 lakhs

Akash Singh Bowler 20 lakhs

*R- Retained

The one that made the headlines in the IPL Teams & squads list is Chris Morris. The South African all-rounder got the fattest paycheck of them all in the history of IPL auctions when the auctioneer sold him to the Royals for Rs 16.25 crores. The rest of the picks for the Royals weren’t as extravagant as they picked the foreigners Mustafizur Rahman and Liam Livingstone alongside 5 Indians. The only Indian to have played international cricket out of the 5 was Shivam Dube.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)

 

Player Role Price

David Warner ® Batsman 12.50 crore

Manish Pandey ® Batsman 11 crore

Kane Williamson ® Batsman 3 crore

Priyam Garg ® Batsman 1.90 crore

Virat Singh ® Batsman 1.90 crore

Abhishek Sharma ® Batsman 55 lakhs

Jonny Bairstow ® Wicket Keeper 2.20 crore

Wriddhiman Saha ® Wicket Keeper 1.20 crore

Shreevats Goswami ® Wicket Keeper 1 crore

Vijay Shankar ® All-Rounder 3.20 crore

Mohammad Nabi ® All-Rounder 1 crore

Mitchell Marsh ® All-Rounder 2 crore

Jason Holder ® All-Rounder 75 lakhs

Abdul Samad ® All-Rounder 20 lakhs

Kedar Jadhav All-Rounder 2 crore

J Suchith All-Rounder 30 lakhs

Rashid Khan ® Bowler 9 crore

T Natarajan ® Bowler 40 lakhs

Khaleel Ahmed ® Bowler 3 crore

Sandeep Sharma ® Bowler 3 crore

Basil Thampi ® Bowler 95 lakhs

Shahbaz Nadeem ® Bowler 3.20 crore

Siddharth Kaul ® Bowler 3.80 crore

Bhuvneshwar Kumar ® Bowler 8.50 crore

Mujeeb ur Rahman Bowler 1.5 crore

*R- Retained

SRH picked just 3 players in the auction and completed their set of 25, which shows the promise the team management has in the rest of their players. The three lucky guys to get to wear orange in IPL 2021 along with the retained players are Kedar Jadhav, Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Jagadeesha Suchith.

IPL Teams, Captains, Home Grounds and Coaches

 

Team Home Ground City Coach Captain

Mumbai Indians, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, Mahela Jayawardene, Rohit Sharma

Chennai Super Kings M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Stephen Fleming MS Dhoni

Delhi Capitals Arun Jaitley Stadium Delhi, NCR Ricky Ponting Shreyas Iyer

Punjab Kings IS Bindra Stadium Mohali, Punjab Anil Kumble KL Rahul

Kolkata Knight Riders Eden Gardens Kolkata, West Bengal Brendon McCullum Eion Morgan

Rajasthan Royals Sawai Mansingh Stadium Jaipur, Rajasthan Andrew McDonald N/A

Royal Challengers Bangalore M. Chinnaswamy Stadium Bengaluru, Karnataka Simon Katich Virat Kohli

Sunrisers Hyderabad, Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad, Telangana, Trevor Bayliss, David Warner

Released and Retained List of Players for IPL 2021

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Here is the full list of players retained and released by all eight franchises.

Mumbai Indians:

Players retained -

Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan (WK), Chris Lynn, Anmolpreet Singh, Saurabh Tiwary, Aditya Tare (WK), Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan

Released players:

Lasith Malinga, Mitch McClenaghan, James Pattinson, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Sherfane Rutherford, Prince Balwant Rai, Digvijay Deshmukh.

Chennai Super Kings:

Players retained -

N Jagadeesan, R Gaikwad, KM Asif, R Jadeja, MS Dhoni, J Hazlewood, K Sharma, A Rayudu, S Raina, I Tahir, D Chahar, Faf du Plessis, S Thakur, M Santner, D Bravo, L Ngidi, S Curran, S Kishore.

Released players:

Harbhajan Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Piyush Chawla, Shane Watson, Murali Vijay, Monu Singh.

Royal Challengers Bangalore:

Players retained -

Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Yuzvendra Chahal, Devdutt Padikkal, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa, Josh Philippe, Shahbaz Ahmed and Pavan Deshpande.

Released players:

Aaron Finch, Chris Morris, Isuru Udana, Moeen Ali, Pawan Negi, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Shivam Dube, Dale Steyn, Parthiv Patel and Umesh Yadav.

Rajasthan Royals:

Players retained -

Sanju Samson, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Riyan Parag, Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror, Kartik Tyagi, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, David Miller, Manan Vohra, Robin Uthappa.

Released players:

Steve Smith, Ankit Rajpoot, Oshane Thomas, Akash Singh, Varun Aaron, Tom Curran, Anirudha Joshi, Shashank Singh.

Delhi Capitals:

Players retained -

Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma, R Ashwin, Lalit Yadav, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, Pravin Dubey, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Woakes, Daniel Sams.

Released players:

Mohit Sharma, Tushar Deshpande, Keemo Paul, Sandeep Lamichhane, Alex Carey, Jason Roy.

Kolkata Knight Riders:

Players retained -

Eoin Morgan, Dinesh Karthik, Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Rahul Tripathi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Pat Cummins, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Tim Seifert.

Released players:

Tom Banton, Chris Green, Nikhil Naik, Siddharth M and Siddhesh Lad

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 

Players retained -

David Warner ©, Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha, Abdul Samad, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh

Released players:

Sanjay Yadav, B Sandeep, Billy Stanlake, Fabian Allen, Yarra Prithviraj

Kings XI Punjab:

Players retained -

KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Nicholas Pooran, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Prabhsimran Singh, Mohammed Shami, Chris Jordan, Darshan Nalkande, Ravi Bishnoi, Murugan Ashwin, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Ishan Porel

Released players:

Glenn Maxwell, Karun Nair, Hardus Viljoen, Jagadeesha Suchith, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Sheldon Cottrell, Jimmy Neesham, Krishnappa Gowtham, Tajinder Singh.

Available Slot and Purse

Here are some details of the Indian Premier League Auction.

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Auction for 2021 IPL to begin on 15th of this month in Chennai. Only 292 are shortlisted from 1114 registered cricketers.

Harbhajan Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Glenn Maxwell, Steve Smith, Shakib Al Hasan, Moeen Ali, Sam Billings, Liam Plunkett, Jason Roy & Mark Wood are capped at 2 crores.

Alex Hales, David Malan, Alex Carey, Nathan Counter-Nile, Jhye Richardson, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Adil Rashid, Shaun Marsh, Tom Curran, David Willey, Lewis Gregory, Morne Morkel are capped at 1.5 crores.

AaronFinch, Evin Lewis, Hanuma Vihari, Sheldon Cottrell, MustafizurRahman, Umesh Yadav, Moises Henriques, Marnus Labuschagne, Jason Behrendorff, Billy Stanlake, Matthew Wade are capped at 1 crore.

Chris Morris, Corey Anderson, Darren Bravo, Ben Cutting, Kyle Jamieson, Fabian Allen, Daniel Christian, Liam Livingstone, Tim Southee, KeemoPaul, Fidel Edwards, MohammadMahmud Ullah, SherfaneRutherford, HiltonCartwright, James Faulkner are capped at 0.75 crores.

• Noor Ahmad Lakanwal, a 16-year-old, left-arm-slow-blower from Afghanistan is the Youngest Player on the shortlist.
• Nayan Doshi, a 42-year old, left-arm-slow-orthodox-bowler is the oldest player on the shortlist.
• Harbhajan Singh is the most experienced player in Test and ODI formats and the second-oldest player in the list after Nayan Doshi.
• Martin Guptill is the Most experienced T20 player on the List.
• Piyush Chawla played the most IPL matches followed by Harbhajan Singh with four matches short.

Most Experienced Players in the Indian Premier League

Thisara Perera and Aaron Finch Played for the SIX IPL teams in 13 years of IPL.

Aaron Finch played for RR, DD, PWI, SRH, MI, GL, KXIP, RCB.

Thisara Perera played for CSK,KTK,MI,SRH,KXIP,RPS.

The number of players according to specialization.

There are 128 All-rounders, 40 Batsman, 99 Bowlers, 23 Wicket keepers.

In which 7 Wicket keepers, 40 Bowlers, 14 Batsman, 49 All-Rounders are capped.

Players According to Nationality.

7 Afghans, 35 Australians, 4 Bangladeshis, 17 Brits, 164 Indians, 1 Nepali, 20 New Zealand, 14 South Africans, 9 Sri Lankans, 1 UAE, 1 USA, 19 West Indies nationalist are on the shortlist.

In Percentages

2.40 % Afghans, 12 % Australians, 1.4 % Bangladesh, 5.9 % Brits, 56 % Indians, 0.34 % Nepali’s, 6.84 % New Zealanders, 4.74 % South Africans, 3.0 % Sri Lankans, 0.34 % UAE, 0.34 % Americans, 6.6 % West Indians are short listed.

According to the IPL, only 22 Overseas player Slots are available and 39 Indian player slots available.

That’s only 17.1875% of overseas player will be selected from 128 overseas players. Only 23.7804 % of Indians will be selected from 164 Indians.