Rishabh Pant's "Real Bidding War To Start From Rs 20 Crore": IPL Official's Mega Revelation, 4 Teams Can Be In Fray

01.11.2024 - 14:51 sports.ndtv.com

With stars like Rishabh Pant and K L Rahul up for grabs, many IPL team owners will be rubbing their hands in glad anticipation at the upcoming players' auction which promises to create all-time record deals given the available Indian talent in the pool.

Aside from Pant and Rahul, there will be Shreyas Iyer, Arshdeep Singh, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj and Mohammed Shami also in the auction pool.

All of them can trigger bidding wars but let there be no confusion that Pant will be cynosure of all eyes at the two-day event supposed to be held in third week of December.

The Rs 75 crore retention cap on international players coupled with Right To Match cards will certainly make it an intriguing auction as some teams, which have exhausted their retention quotas, will now have to recruit at least 15 more players for a lesser sum.

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Former Indian cricketer Suresh Raina hinted at Indian wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant's potential move to Chennai Super Kings (CSK), revealing that the swashbuckling star met legendary MS Dhoni in Delhi. The Indian Premier League (IPL) player retention lists were announced by each franchise on Wednesday. MS Dhoni was retained as an uncapped player for Rs 4 crore as a per new IPL rule allowing Indian players having retired five years back to be retained by franchises as uncapped players. Pant was released by Delhi Capitals (DC) after playing eight seasons with the team since 2016.

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