New Delhi: At least 144 international cricketers’ will be auctioned on February 4 for the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League.
According to The News Tribe correspondent, VVS Laxman, S Sreesanth, Ravindra Jadeja RP Singh, Parthiv Patel, Ramesh Powar, R Vinay Kumar and VRV Singh are among the Indian players who will be up for grabs at the ITC Royal Gardenia while Brad Hogg, Mitchell Johnson, Peter Siddle, Usman Khawaja, Luke Ronchi are among the 16 players from Australia who will be up for sale.
From England, 13 cricketers, including James Anderson, Ian Bell, Owais Shah, Ravi Bopara, Graeme Swann and Chris Tremlett will be up for grabs.
South Africa and New Zealand will have 19 and 10 players respectively, while dashing opener Tamim Iqbal will be the lone cricketer from Bangladesh to go under the hammer.
Sri Lanka will have as many as 18 cricketers, while West Indies and Zimbabwe will have 16 and seven players respectively in the auction list.
Tom Cooper, who played 18 ODIs will be the sole player from Holland, while O’Brien brothers – Niall and Kevin – from Ireland will also be up for auction.
“The shortlist comprises some outstanding cricket talent. Given that it was prepared on the basis of the feedback of the franchises themselves, the stage is set for an exciting and eventful player auction, this Saturday,” IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla said in a statement.
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