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The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 auction is going to be held on December 19 in Dubai. The player auction will be held outside the country for the first time. All 10 franchises are gearing up for the auction. At the same time, an IPL mock auction was organized by Jio Cinemas on December 18, i.e. Monday, in which a panel bid on the players on their own account. The panel included former players like Akash Chopra, Robin Uthappa, RP Singh, Zaheer Khan, Parthiv Patel, Anil Kumble, Eoin Morgan and Suresh Raina. These players represented different teams.
Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc and young South African fast bowler Gerald Coetzee stunned everyone. RCB bid the highest for Starc at Rs 18.5 crore. Mike Hesson represented RCB in the mock auction. Let us tell you that Starc played his last match in IPL in 2015. At that time he was part of RCB. Starke has set its base price for the upcoming auction at Rs. 2 crore has been kept. There is a possibility of heavy rain over them.
Coetzee made a huge impression at the 2023 World Cup in India. He took 20 wickets in 8 matches in the tournament. He is joint fourth in the list of bowlers who have taken the most wickets. In a mock auction on Coetzee, Gujarat Titans (GT) representative bid Rs. 18 crore was bid. Its base price is 2 crores. Australia’s World Cup-winning captain Pat Cummins and Indian all-rounder Shardul Thakur also impressed. The representative of Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) paid Rs. 17.5 crores and the Punjab Kings (PBKS) representative bid for Shardul at Rs. 14 crore was bid. The base price of both is 2 crores.