New Delhi. The player auction for the 2024 season of the Indian Premier League will take place on Tuesday, December 19. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has shared the names of 333 players who will participate in this IPL Mini Auction (IPL 2024 Auction). There are 77 vacant slots in 10 teams which means 77 players out of these 333 will be picked in the auction out of which 30 will be foreigners. The IPL has also seen the performances of many players who were bought by franchises at very low prices, many at their original prices, but they have left a huge impact with their performances. In other words, in terms of performance, they have outperformed even the big name players sold for crores of rupees. In a way, he has proved to be a ‘full value for money player’ for his franchise.
Rinku Singh’s name stands at the fore among these players who performed ‘big’ despite their low salary. Apart from him Sai Sudarshan, Ayush Badoni, Mohit Sharma, Vijay Shankar and Piyush Chawla are among these players. Let’s take a look at these special underpaid players.
Rinku Singh:Aligarh’s diminutive Rinku Singh has made a ‘big’ name in the world of cricket in a very short span of time. Today Rinku has emerged as a big star of IPL as well as Indian team. In IPL 2023 season, KKR’s Rinku hit 5 sixes in 5 consecutive balls in the 20th over to give the team a great win and gain a lot. fame. You will be surprised to know that Rinku currently earns only Rs 55 lakh per season salary from IPL. His salary in 2021 was Rs 80 lakh, but KKR bought him for Rs 55 lakh in the 2023 auction. His salary has decreased in the last 3 years. Rinku will also be seen playing for KKR in IPL 2024. It should be expected that the KKR team management will give him his fair value considering his excellent performances so far. Rinku has so far scored 725 runs in 31 IPL matches at an average of 36.25 and a strike rate of 142.16 with four half-centuries.
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Mohit Sharma: Has played as a fast bowler for India. Mohit Sharma joined CSK for Rs 5 crore in the 2019 season but his price kept dropping after that. In IPL 2023, Gujarat Titans included him for just Rs 50 lakh but he proved to be the most important bowler of the team along with Mohammad Shami. His accurate yorker and slower delivery gave the opposition batsmen a tough test. In the 2023 season, he took 25 wickets for GT at an excellent average of 13.24 and proved to be a much bigger player than his estimated price.
Sai Sudarshan: In the very first match of the ODI series against South Africa, Tamil Nadu’s Sai Sudarshan left a special impression by scoring an unbeaten half-century. Sai has joined the Gujarat Titans team for the 2022 season of IPL for a nominal fee of Rs 20 lakh and has become a special player of the team in just two seasons. His performance last season was outstanding. In the 2023 season, he scored 362 runs in eight matches at an average of 51.71 and a strike rate of 141.41, including three half-centuries. In terms of batting, his performance was very effective. Overall in the IPL, he has scored 507 runs in 13 matches at an average of 46.09 and a strike rate of 137.03, which is why the GT team has retained him for the 2024 season.
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Piyush Chawla: Piyush Chawla, a member of India’s 2011 World Cup champion team, was bought by Mumbai Indians for a mere Rs 50 lakh in the 2023 season, but the player left a huge impact and performed ‘well above’ his cost for the team. Piyush joined the Chennai team in IPL 2020 at a price of Rs 6.75 crore but his price kept dropping in the following season. However, in the last IPL season i.e. 2023, he took 22 wickets for MI at an average of 22.50. He was the main bowler of the team.
Ayush Badoni: The 24-year-old is being touted as a star of the future. Ayush, who made his IPL 2022 debut, was signed by Lucknow Supergiants for a paltry price of Rs 20 lakh but managed to impress with his performances. Scored 238 runs at an average of around 24 and a strike rate of 138 in IPL 2023. Even in fielding, he looked dashing on the field.
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First published: December 18, 2023, 09:19 IST