IPL 2018 Auction: Mitchell Starc, Glenn Maxwell lead list of 55 Australian players
Mumbai: Mitchell Starc and Glenn Maxwell are the front-running names that will lead a fancy list of 55 Australian cricketers aiming to earn big in the Indian Premier League (IPL) players’ auction set to be held on the 27th and 28th of January in Bengaluru.
Both Starc and Maxwell fall into the list of the top 16 marquee players – the ones with the highest base price as named by the IPL officials.
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Apart from the duo, seven other Australian cricketers including the likes of Chris Lynn, James Faulkner, Marcus Stoinis, Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Johnson, Cameron White have been allotted a reserve price of 2 crores.
D’Arcy Short who has taken the Big Bash League (BBL) by storm is available for the lowest reserve price of INR 20 lakhs, while wicket-keeper Alex Carey, the only other player with more than 400 runs to his name will also be on the radar of IPL bidders.
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But the Australians will tough face competition in a total pool of 578 players, including 360 Indian players. A total of 1122 cricketers registered themselves for the cash-rich league but the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) trimmed the list to 578.
However, with 18 players already being retained in total by IPL teams, including Steve Smith and David Warner, only 182 out of 578 players will be awarded contracts.
Smith and Warner secured the most expensive IPL contracts offered to an Australian after they were retained by Rajasthan Royals (RR) and SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) respectively for a whopping sum of 12 crores.
Below is a full list of the Australians who are set to go under the hammer:
INR 2 crores
Mitchell Starc
Glenn Maxwell
Chris Lynn
James Faulkner
Marcus Stoinis
Pat Cummins
Josh Hazlewood
Mitchell Johnson
Cameron White
INR 1.5 crore
Aaron Finch
Travis Head
Shaun Marsh
Moises Henriques
Nathan Coulter-Nile
Nathan Lyon
Michael Klinger
Peter Handscomb
INR 1 crore
Shane Watson
Adam Zampa
Dan Christian
Ben Cutting
Jason Behrendorff
Andrew Tye
INR 75 lakhs
Usman Khawaja
Peter Siddle
INR 50 lakhs
Fawad Ahmed
Joe Burns
Ashton Agar
Hilton Cartwright
John Hastings
Ben Laughlin
Billy Stanlake
Michael Beer
Sean Abbott
Joel Paris
Jhye Richardson
Scott Boland
Ben Hilfenhaus
INR 40 lakhs
Tom Cooper
Mitchell Swepson
Michael Neser
INR 30 lakhs
Ben McDermott
Alex Carey
Daniel Hughes
Alex Ross
INR 20 lakhs
D’Aarcy Short
Ben Dwarshuis
Chris Green
Marcus Harris
Aaron Summers
Arjun Nair
Jack Wildermuth
Ryan Ninan
Cameron Gannon
