A massive 1097 players were registered for the upcoming IPL 2021 Auction including international and domestic capped and uncapped players.
IPL board announces players with the eligibility to get part in IPL to complete the registration before February 4.
Left-arm fast bowler Arjun Tendulkar, son of the legendary Sachin Tendulkar, will be among the players available for the IPL 2021 players’ auction. Arjun Tendulkar made his T20 debut during the Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy, picking up 1/34 for Mumbai against Haryana. He played another game against Puducherry, claiming 1/33.
Kerala fast bowler S Sreesanth, who returned to playing competitive cricket a month ago during the Syed Mushtaq Ali tournament, setting his base price at ₹75 lakh.
Among other Indians, Kedar Jadhav, having been released by Chennai Super Kings, has put his base price at Rs 2 crore. Harbhajan Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Steven Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Moeen Ali, Sam Billings, Jason Roy, Mark Wood, Liam Plunkett, and Colin Ingram – all set their base price at ₹2 crores.
Finch, Umesh, Vihari, Labuschagne, Cottrell registered their name for 1 Crore. While Mujeeb, Carey, NCN, J Richardson, Swepson, T Curran, Gregory, Hales, Adam Lyth, Adil, Willey registered for 1.5 crores. Where Pujara, Dube, Karun Nair, Varun Aaron has a base price of 50 Lakh in the IPL auction 2021.
Players registered for IPL 2021 Player Auction
The IPL Player Registration closed on 4th February 2021 with 1097 players (814 Indian and 283 overseas players) signing up to be a part of the IPL 2021 Player Auction set to take place in Chennai on 18th February 2021.
The Auction will begin from 3 PM onwards.
The players’ list incorporates 207 capped, 863 uncapped, and 27 Associate players. The detailed list is as below
- Capped Indian (21 players)
- Capped International (186 players)
- Associate (27 players)
- Uncapped Indian players who have played at least 1 IPL match (50 players)
- Overseas uncapped players who have played at least 1 IPL match (2 players)
- Uncapped International (68 players)
If every franchise were to have a maximum of 25 players in their squad, 61 players will be taken in the auction (of which up to 22 may be overseas players).
The country-wise breakdown of 283 overseas players is listed below
| Country |
Players Registered
|
| Afghanistan | 30 |
| Australia | 42 |
| Bangladesh | 5 |
| England | 21 |
| Ireland | 2 |
| Nepal | 8 |
| Netherlands | 1 |
| New Zealand | 29 |
| Scotland | 7 |
| South Africa | 38 |
| Sri Lanka | 31 |
| UAE | 9 |
| USA | 2 |
| West Indies | 56 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 |
