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The 16th season of India’s biggest sports series IPL will take place in the summer of 2023. The players’ auction will be held on December 23 in Kochi, Kerala, before which all the teams have released the list of other retained players. 991 players from India and abroad are fielding in the auction that follows. There is not a single Indian player in the highest base price category of 2 crores while there are many foreign star players.
Most of the current in-forms in that category like Sam Karan and Ben Stokes are expected to fetch huge sums in excess of 2 crores. However, some foreign players are in modest form at the moment and doubted whether they will bid and have set their base price at a maximum of Rs 2 crore. But really if a player is of quality they will be auctioned for crores even if the base price is 20 lakhs. So let’s take a look at some of the players who are likely to miss the auction due to the exorbitant base price of Rs 2 crore:
5. Craig Overton: The young England fast bowler has been impressive in the domestic T20 Blast series but has yet to make his international debut. In that situation, it can be said that no team will pay 2 crores to buy him because it is not known how amazing he will be in the IPL series held on the Indian pitches.
4. Jamie Overton: His brother also played just one Test match for England. Still uncapped in ODIs and T20Is, he has bowled at a modest economy of 9.43 in 82 domestic T20Is. So it can be said frankly that no team will buy him for 2 crores who has no experience of playing on Indian pitches.
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3. Nathan-Coulder-Nile: This fast bowler from Australia has played in all the IPL series since 2020. But he did not play a full season due to injury and was bought for 2 crores in the 2022 season and got out injured in the first match.
Since then he has not played any first class cricket yet and is often injured and has crossed the age of 35 so all the teams can think of buying him again for 2 crores. Because Australian fast bowlers like Riley Meredith, Sean Abbott, Jay Richardson who are younger than him are in the same auction for 1.5 crores, so it can be said that the IPL teams will not find him.
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2. Travis Head: Australia’s action-packed opener in the recent England ODI series with David Warner who put up a stunning 250+ run partnership. Despite being in good form, he is only scoring runs at a modest strike rate of 133.20 in 27 matches in T20 cricket.
So it can be said that almost all the teams will think of buying him in the auction even if he is a left-handed batsman. Perhaps if he had set the base price even lower there would have been bright opportunities to buy into a team.
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1 Angelo Mathews: The star batsman from Sri Lanka is a good all-rounder but has not played T20 matches for the national team and even local cricket for the last one year. Despite his good experience, his T20 career is poorly marked by a batting strike rate of 119.55 and a bowling average of 32.03.
It is safe to say that IPL teams who are looking for younger action players will not buy him who is already over 35 even at base price.
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