🛒🏏IPL Day 2:Owners Bidding Spree & Players' Animated Suspense 🏏🛒 - Page 25

Chennai Super Kings get Maheesh Theekshana for 70 lakhs.

Karn Sharma, Ish Sodhi, P Chawla unsold

Uncapped batters coming up

Sachin Baby, Ricky Bhui, Himanshu Rana, Harnoor Singh, Himmat Singh, Rinku Singh, Virat Singh, Manan Vohra

Originally posted by: LuvAlways

Feel bad for Pujara. Last year CSK bought him but didn't try in a single match. But he became the lucky mascot for them as CSK won the title ⭐

45 mins lunch break now

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Sachin Baby, Ricky Bhui, Himanshu Rana, Harnoor Singh, Himmat Singh Virat Singh unsold

KKR get back Rinku Singh for 55 lakhs.

Lucknow get Manan Vohra for 20 lakh.

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Originally posted by: LuvAlways

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Boiz

Originally posted by: LuvAlways

Kane stays injured for half of the matches so better SRH buy a back up captain also😆

I wonder if the opinion of the person is so important why he didn't come for the auction. Anyways he is on call for 10 hours, so he won't be able to do any other task at his place. Technique hi galat start ki hai hydrabad ne😕

Cheers..

Liam Livingstone was a base-price pick-up at 75 lakh for Rajasthan Royals last year and had a quiet season for them, hitting 42 runs in five innings in the UAE. 12 months on, he sparked a five-way bidding war in 2022 and ended up selling for 11.5 crore, the fourth-highest fee for an Englishman at an IPL auction.

There are two main reasons for the explosion in Livingstone’s salary. Firstly, 2021 was a breakout year for him with the bat: he forced his way into England’s T20I team after a four-year absence and hit 103 off 43 against Pakistan in his third innings back, before becoming the Hundred’s MVP in its inaugural season. He hit 86 T20 sixes in 2021, second only to Glenn Phillips.

Secondly, teams have recognised that Livingstone’s versatility - a quality on which he prides himself - is a huge asset. He has recent experience everywhere from No. 1-7 and has developed his ability to finish an innings in particular, while his bowling - a mixture of offbreaks and legbreaks in the same over, depending on match-ups and dimensions - has come on significantly. “People call him a part-timer,” Eoin Morgan said at the World Cup. “He's not. He's an allrounder.”

A notable subplot in the Livingstone bidding war was the role of Dan Weston, one of Punjab’s analysts. Weston pushed hard for Birmingham Phoenix to pick Livingstone up in the first round of the Hundred draft back in 2019 - he was the only domestic player picked in the draft, despite his limited England experience at the time - and this buy has his fingerprints all over it.

Credit to Cricinfo

This is 2nd year in a row when Finch got unsold. Insulting feel hota hoga unsold player ko