Mitchell Starc overtook Pat Cummins & changed history..!

Sowmiya Sriram
Mitchell Starc overtook Pat Cummins & changed history..!

Fast bowler Mitchell Starc became the first player in IPL history to be auctioned at Rs 24.75 crore, overtaking Pat Cummins who set the record for being the first player to be auctioned at Rs 20.50 crore. The auction for the 17th season of IPL 2024 is underway at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai. In this, every team is competing to get talented players. In this, Sunrisers hyderabad are bidding for every player to strengthen their squad. So far, Sunrisers Hyderabad's Travis Head has been bid for Rs 6.80 crore, Hasaranga has been bid for Rs 1.5 crore, while Australian captain Pat Cummins has been bid for the highest amount of Rs 20.50 crore. With this, he became the first player to be auctioned for the highest amount in IPL history. Earlier, sam Curran was auctioned for Rs 18.50 crore in punjab Kings last season.
In this situation, to put all this aside, the fast bowler of the Australian team has been bid for Rs. 24.75 crores in the kolkata Knight Riders team. Through this, the highest amount in history is Rs. 24.75 crores. Mitchell Starc has set the record of being the player who was auctioned for 24.75 crores. mumbai Indians and delhi Capitals were in fierce competition to bid for Starc. Later, a tough competition between gujarat Titans and kolkata Knight Riders ensued as these two teams backed out of the bid. When the Rs 24.75 crore finally came, gujarat Titans head coach ashish Nehra waved 'Enough is enough' and kolkata Knight Riders were announced to have bid for Rs 24.75 crore.
In the recently concluded 13th cricket World Cup, when he had played 13 matches and taken only 16 wickets, the question has arisen as to why he was auctioned for such a sum. In this auction, the highly anticipated players like Rachin Ravindra, Travis Head, Gerald Coetzee, Daryl Mitchell, and Hasaranga were bid for a lesser amount, and why the much-anticipated Starc was bid for Rs 24.75 crore by the kolkata team is a mystery.

Before this, Starc, who played in the kolkata team in 2014 and 2015, took 20 and 14 wickets. KKR's purse amount is Rs 32.7 crore. A total of 12 players including 4 foreign players are up for auction. Apart from Starc, indian player chetan Zakaria has been bid for Rs 50 lakh and wicketkeeper KS bharath for Rs 50 lakh. So far it has spent Rs.25.75 crore. Still, only Rs.6.95 crore is outstanding.

Players Bid:

Mitchell Starc – Rs 24.75 crore

KS Bharat – Rs.50 lakh

Chetan Sakaria – Rs.50 lakhs
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