With the euphoria over Argentina and Lionel Messi's FIFA World Cup triumph dying down, the attention has now shifted to cricket, beginning with the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 mini-auction scheduled to be held in Kochi on December 23.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the list of 405 players, of which 273 are Indians and 132 overseas players. Four players are from associate nations.
Here’s all you need to know about the mini-auction.
When and where is the IPL mini-auction?
At 2:30pm on December 23 in Kochi. The last one held in February this year was a mega auction.
Where to watch?
The auction will be broadcast on the Star Sports network in India.
Who will be the auctioneer?
Hugh Edmeades. He took over from Richard Madley in 2018 and has been hosting the IPL auction since.
How many players will be available?
The final auction pool will have 405 players from the originally registered 991, with a maximum of 87 slots available to be filled by the 10 franchises. Of these, 30 will be overseas players. There will be 273 Indian players, and 132 overseas - including four from associate nations. There are 119 capped players and 286 uncapped.
What is accelerated auction?
All of the shortlisted players will not go under the hammer. An accelerated process/round is one where the franchises give a list of players whom they would like to be presented in the auction. The players can be chosen from the ones who have not been presented yet or the ones, who went unsold in the first round.
In the 2023 auction, the process will begin from the player No. 87 onwards till 405, as mentioned by the IPL in a letter to all the franchises. The franchises will be asked to nominate a few players, whom they would like to be presented from 87-405 and the ones, who went unsold earlier. When the first accelerated round is completed, the auctioneer gives chance to the franchises to nominate another set of players (reduced number) if the slots are still vacant and thus the unsold/unpresented players get one more chance of finding the takers.
Money each franchise has
Sunrisers Hyderabad (Rs 42.25 crore), Punjab Kings (Rs 32.20 crore), Lucknow Super Giants (Rs 23.35 crore), Mumbai Indians (Rs 20.55 crore), Chennai Super Kings (Rs 20.45 crore), Delhi Capitals (Rs 19.45 crore), Gujarat Titans (Rs 19.25 crore), Rajasthan Royals (Rs 13.2 crore), Royal Challengers Bangalore (Rs 8.75 crore) and Kolkata Knight Riders (Rs 7.05 crore).
Who are the youngest and oldest players in the auction?
Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar of the Mis Ainak Knights is the youngest cricketer to be shortlisted for the IPL 2023 auction. Ghazanfar is a right-arm off-spinner from Afghanistan.
The oldest player in the auction is T20 veteran Amit Mishra. The 40-year-old is the only bowler to pick up three IPL hat-tricks for three different teams - Delhi Daredevils (2008), Deccan Chargers (2011) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (2013).
Current squads before IPL auction
Mumbai Indians squad:
Rohit Sharma (capt), Tim David, Ramandeep Singh, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, Jofra Archer, Jasprit Bumrah, Arjun Tendulkar, Arshad Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Hrithik Shokeen, Jason Behrendorff, Akash Madhwal.
Chennai Super Kings squad:
MS Dhoni (capt), Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Subhranshu Senapati, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Tushar Deshpande, Mukesh Chowdhary, Matheesha Pathirana, Simarjeet Singh, Deepak Chahar, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana.
Gujarat Titans squad:
Hardik Pandya (capt), Shubman Gill, David Miller, Abhinav Manohar, Sai Sudharsan, Wriddhiman Saha, Matthew Wade, Rashid Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Vijay Shankar, Mohammed Shami, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Pradeep Sangwan, Darshan Nalkande, Jayant Yadav, R Sai Kishore, Noor Ahmad.
Delhi Capitals squad:
Rishabh Pant (capt), David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Ripal Patel, Rovman Powell, Sarfaraz Khan, Yash Dhull, Mitchell Marsh, Lalit Yadav, Axar Patel, Anrich Nortje, Chetan Sakariya, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Khaleel Ahmed, Lungi Ngidi, Mustafizur Rahman, Aman Khan, Kuldeep Yadav, Praveen Dubey, Vicky Ostwal.
Lucknow Super Giants squad:
KL Rahul (capt), Ayush Badoni, Karan Sharma, Manan Vohra, Quinton de Kock, Marcus Stoinis, Krishnappa Gowtham, Deepak Hooda, Kyle Mayers, Krunal Pandya, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Mark Wood, Mayank Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi.
Rajasthan Royals squad:
Sanju Samson (capt), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Jos Buttler, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Prasidh Krishna, Trent Boult, Obed McCoy, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Sen, Kuldip Yadav, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, KC Cariappa.
Sunrisers Hyderabad squad:
Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kartik Tyagi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik.
Royal Challengers Bangalore squad:
Faf du Plessis (capt), Virat Kohli, Suyash Prabhudessai, Rajat Patidar, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat, Finn Allen, Glenn Maxwell, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shahbaz Ahmed, Harshal Patel, David Willey, Karn Sharma, Mahipal Lomror, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood, Siddarth Kaul, Akash Deep.
Punjab Kings squad:
Shikhar Dhawan (capt), Shahrukh Khan, Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jitesh Sharma, Raj Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Baltej Singh, Nathan Ellis, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Brar.
Kolkata Knight Riders squad:
Shreyas Iyer (capt), Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh.
