Mitchell Starc not among 1097 players registered for IPL Mini Auction
A total of 1097 players have registered for the Indian Premier League mini-auction which is scheduled to be hosted on 18th February. The biggest surprise has been of the Australian pacer Mitchell Starc pulling out of the auction. On the domestic front, S Sreesanth, who played his first competitive game for the first time in eight years has also been included in the players’ list.
Even though it is just a min auction 21 capped Indian players have registered for it, surprisingly the maximum number of registrations have come from the West Indies, whose 56 players have registered for the mini IPL auction. The other teams in the fray with high registration are Australia with 42 and South Africa with 38.
Although a huge number of players have registered for the auctions, even if every franchise were to have the maximum of 25 players in their squad, only 61 players could be taken in the auction and of that 61, only a maximum of 22 overseas players can play.
The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy has just concluded and thus a large number of Indian uncapped players, to be precise 743 such players would be in action. There are also 68 uncapped International players in the fray as well.
As far as associate nations are concerned, there are 27 players who have registered themselves as being part of associate nations, the highest number of them coming from UAE (9).
The auctions on 18th would coincide with the start of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
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