IPL Mini Auction: Price range and full list of players going under the hammer on 18th February

IPL 2021: S Sreesanth reacts to auction snub

Fast bowler S Sreesanth was omitted from the list of players who will go under the hammer in IPL 2021 auction. The auctions is scheduled to take place on February 18 in Chennai.   The right-arm fast bowler had made his return to competitive cricket with Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He was banned for being allegedly involved in a spot-fixing scandal during IPL 2013.   Sreesanth has now responded to his omission and said, “I am disappointed not to be part of the final list of players in IPL auction - will be keep fighting, if I can wait for 8 years then I can wait for some more time, I am not giving up", he said in the video.   Sreesanth registered himself for the base price of INR 75   “A total of 1114 players had registered for the auction, of which the franchises shortlisted the candidates and the list was pruned. Maybe, Sreesanth did not attract the franchises for some reason,” one of the franchise officials told Sportstar.   As many 292 players have been shortlisted for the auction. Harbhajan Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Steve Smith, Shakib Al Hasan, Moeen Ali, Sam Billings, Liam Plunkett and Jason Roy have been bracketed in the Rs 2 crore base price category.   CSK have Rs. 22.9 Cr, DC have Rs. 12.8 Cr, KXIP have Rs. 53.2 Cr while KKR, MI, RR, RCB and SRH have Rs. 10.85 Cr, Rs. 15.35 Cr, Rs. 34.85 Cr, Rs. 35.7 Cr and Rs. 10.75 Cr respectively.

IND vs ENG: Virat Kohli on verge of toppling Ricky Ponting from special list

Virat Kohli has been in good form with the bat, but the centuries have dried up for the Indian captain in the period starting from last year. He has looked in good touch but has not been able to convert his fifties into hundreds. He will be itching to get back to his ton-scoring form in the second Test against England, and he has an extra incentive to hit a triple-figure target as one more ton will see him surpass Ricky Ponting in terms of centuries as a captain of their sides. Both Kohli and Pontied are tied at 41 hundred as the captain of their sides, and another century will take him to the top of the table among captains with most hundreds. Kohli has taken 188 international games to score 41 centuries as captain while Ponting has taken 324 games for the same number of tons. They are followed by Graeme Smith who has 33 tons from 286 games as the captain of the South Africa side. Kohli will be looking to score big in the second Test as India are 1-0 down in the series and the one of the major cause of the defeat in the first Test was the failure of batsmen, including Kohli himself to score big runs in the first innings. Kohli looked in great touch in the second innings, and will be hoping to start off well in the second Test scheduled to start from February 13 in Chennai.

Vijay Hazare Trophy 2021: Full list of Squads

The Vijay Hazare Trophy 2021 season is set to begin from February 20 and will go till March 14. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had earlier canceled the Ranji Trophy and decided to hold the 50-over tournament. The teams have been divided into six groups, Elite A, Elite B, Elite C, Elite D, Elite E and Plate Group. The Elite A group comprises of Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Hyderabad, Tripura, Baroda, Goa while Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Andhra Pradesh are in Elite group B. The Elite C group has Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Odisha, Railways, Bihar, Elite D has Delhi, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Pondicherry. The Elite E Group has Bengal, Services, Jammu & Kashmir, Saurashtra, Haryana, Chandigarh. The Plate Group has Uttarakhand, Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Sikkim. Here are the squads for all the teams. Baroda - Krunal Pandya (c), Kedar Devdhar (vc), Pratyushkumar, Vishnu Solanki, Abhimanyusingh Rajput, Smit Patel (wk), Ninad Rathwa, Atit Sheth, Kartik Kakade, Lukman Meriwala, Babashafi Pathan, Dhruv Patel, Bhargav Bhatt, Bhanu Pania, Chintal Gandhi, Parth Kohli, Jyotsnil Singh, Mitesh Patel (wk), Soeb Sopariya, Shivalik Sharma, Pradeep Yadav, Pratik Ghodedra Mumbai - Shreyas Iyer (c), Prithvi Shaw (vc), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Akhil Herwadkar, Suryakumar Yadav, Sarfaraz Khan, Chinmay Sutar, Aditya Tare (wk), Hardik Tamore, Shivam Dube, Aakash Parkar, Atif Attarwala, Shams Mulani, Atharva Ankolekar, Sairaj Patil, Sujit Nayak, Tanush Kotian, Prashant Solanki, Dhawal Kulkarni, Tushar Deshpande, Siddharth Raut, Mohit Awasthi Karnataka - Karun Nair (c), Devdutt Padikkal, Rohan Kadam, Pavan Deshpande, Krishnamurthy Siddharth, KL Shrijith, Sharath BR, Aniruddha Joshi, Shreyas Gopal, Krishnappa Gowtham, Jagadeesha Suchith, Praveen Dubey, Abhimanyu Mithun, Prasidh Krishna, Prateek Jain, V Koushik, Ronit More, Darshan MB, Manoj S Bhandage, Shubhang Hegde Jammu And Kashmir - Parvez Rasool (c), Shubham Khajuria, Aamir Aziz Sofi, Abdul Samad, Abid Mushtaq, Aquib Nabi, Ahmed Banday, Ram Dayal, Henan Malik, Jiyaad Magrey, Mujtaba Yousuf, Nawazul Munier, Shubham Pundir, Puneet Kumar, Qamran Iqbal, Usman Pandit, Suryansh Raina, Umar Nazir Mir Uttarakhand - Iqbal Abdulla (c), Ashish Chaudhary, Avneesh Sudha, Himanshu Bisht, Jay Gokul Bista, Kunal Chandela, Dhanraj Sharma, Samad Fallah, Gaurav Singh, Girish Rauturi, Karn Veer Kaushal, A Madhwal, Mayank Mishra, Dikshanshu Negi, Piyush Joshi, Saurabh Rawat, Arya Sethi, Vijay Sharma, Agrim Tiwari Chhattisgarh - Shubham Agarwal, Shashank Chandraker, Harpreet Singh, Sanidhya Hurkat, Jiwanjot Singh, Amandeep Khare, Shourabh Khairwar, Vishal Kushwah, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Veer Pratap Singh, Ravi Kiran, Rishabh Tiwari, Sumit Ruikar, Shahnawaz Hussain, Shashank Singh, Shubham Singh Himachal Pradesh - RI Thakur, Kanwar Abhinay Singh, Amit Kumar, Vaibhav Arora, Ankush Bedi, Prashant Chopra, Mayank Dagar, Rishi Dhawan, Arpit Guleria, Pankaj Jaiswal, Ayush Jamwal, Nitin Sharma, Abhimanyu Rana, Ekant Sen, Akash Vashist Gujarat - Axar Patel (c), Priyank Panchal, Piyush Chawla, Chintan Gaja, Devang Gandhi, Roosh Kalaria, Kshitij Patel, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Jayveer Parmar, Hardik Patel, Ripal Patel, Tejas Patel, Urvil Patel, Priyesh Patel, Dhruv Raval Maharashtra - Rahul Tripathi (c), Jagdish Zope, Satyajeet Bachhav, Pradeep Dadhe, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Swapnil Gugale, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Divyang Himganekar, Manoj Ingale, Kedar Jadhav, Azim Kazi, Shamshuzama Kazi, Vishant More (wk), Mukesh Choudhary, Nikhil Naik (wk), Naushad Shaikh, Tajinder Singh Jharkhand - Ishan Kishan (c), Varun Aaron, Anand Singh, Ashish Kumar, Kumar Deobrat, Kaushal Singh, Pankaj Kishor Kumar, Monu Kumar, Shahbaz Nadeem, Anukul Roy, Rahul Shukla, Sonu Singh, Vivekanand Tiwari, Saurabh Tiwary, Utkarsh Singh, Vikash Singh, Virat Singh, Satya Setu Tamil Nadu - Dinesh Karthik (c), Vijay Shankar, Baba Aparajith, Arun Karthik, Murugan Ashwin, Aswin Crist, Hari Nishanth, Baba Indrajith, N Jagadeesan, Jaganath Sinivas, Jagatheesan Kousik, M Mohammed, G Periyaswamy, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Sandeep Warrier, Shahrukh Khan, Manimaran Siddharth, Sonu Yadav, Laxmesha Suryaprakash Odisha - Subhranshu Senapati (c), Rajesh Dhuper (wk), Pappu Roy, Suryakant Pradhan, Abhishek Raut, Shantanu Mishra, Pratik Das, Govinda Poddar, Rajesh Mohanty, Biplab Samantray, Ankit Yadav, Sarbeswar Mohanty Bengal - Anustup Majumdar (c), Akash Deep, Sudip Chatterjee, Writtick Chatterjee, Abhishek Das, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shreevats Goswami, Mukesh Kumar, Arnab Nandi, Ishan Porel, Ravikant Singh, Prayas Barman, Ritwik Chowdhury, Kazi Saifi, Shahbaz Ahmed, Manoj Tiwary, Vivek Singh Railways - Mrunal Devdhar, Harsh Tyagi, Pradeep T, Vikrant Rajput, Himanshu Sangwan, Kanishk Seth, Shivendra Singh, Navneet Virk, Dinesh Mor, Amit Kuila, Pratham Singh, Ananta Saha, Saurabh Singh, Karn Sharma, Dhrushant Soni Tripura - Manisankar Murasingh (c), Ajoy Sarkar, Kaushal Acharjee, Joydeep Banik, Udiyan Bose, Saurabh Das, Rajat Dey, Bishal Ghosh, Subham Ghosh, Milind Kumar, Pratyush Singh, Rana Dutta, Tushar Saha, Abhijit Sarkar, Samrat Singha, Arkaprabha Sinha Punjab - Mandeep Singh (c), Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Abhishek Sharma, Anmolpreet Singh, Arshdeep Singh, Baltej Singh, Harpreet Brar, Karan Kaila, Siddarth Kaul, Gitansh Khera, Anmol Malhotra, Mayank Markande, Rohan Marwaha, Simran Singh (wk), Ramandeep Singh , Sandeep Sharma, Sanvir Singh, Barinder Sran Uttar Pradesh - Priyam Garg (c), Karn Sharma (vc), Suresh Raina, Rinku Singh, Madhav Kaushik, Samarth Singh, Shubham Choubey, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Aryan Juyal (wk), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ankit Rajpoot, Mohsin Khan, Shivam Mavi, Shiva Singh, Shanu Saini Assam - Rishav Das (c), Rajjakuddin Ahmed, Arup Das, Amlanjyoti Paresh Das, Pritam Das, Pallavkumar Das, Mrinmoy Dutta, Saahil Jain, Mukhtar Hussain, Riyan Parag, Rahul Singh, Amit Sinha, Abhishek Thakuri Hyderabad - Tanmay Agarwal (c), Rahul Buddhi, Mickil Jaiswal, Chama V Milind, Telukupalli Ravi Teja, Kolla Sumanth, Tilak Varma, Himalay Agarwal, Ajay Dev Goud, Kartikeya Kak, Prateek Reddy, Bavanaka Sandeep, Tanay Thyagarajan, Yudhvir Singh Chandigarh - Manan Vohra (c), Gaurav Gambhir, Arslan Khan, Shivam Bhambri, Bipul Sharma, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Gaurav Puri, Gurinder Singh, Jagjit Singh, Jaskaran Singh, Anirudh Kanwar, Sarul Kanwar, Uday Kaul, Ankit Kaushik, Kunal Mahajan, Jaskaranvir Singh Nagaland - Rongsen Jonathan (c), Hokaito Zhimomi, Stuart Binny, Chetan Bist, Chopise Hopongkyu, Jala uddin, Imliwati Lemtur, Shrikant Mundhe, Nagaho Chishi, Sedezhalie Rupero, Joshua Ozukum, Tahmeed Rahman, Mughavi Wotsa Arunachal Pradesh - Neelam Obi (c), Rahul Dalal, Techi Doria, Karkir Taye, Rakesh Kumar, Nabam Tempol, Akhilesh Sahani, Takam Tallam, Yab Niya, Kamsha Yangfo, Song Tacho, Kengo Goken Bam, Techi Neri, Samarth Seth, Shashwat Kohli Bihar - Ashutosh Aman (c), Mohit Kumar, MD Rahmatullah, Shasheem Rathour, Sachin Kumar, Amod Yadav, Babul Kumar, Mangal Mahrour, Samar Quadri, Vikash Ranjan, Yashasvi Rishav, Vikash Yadav, S Gani Delhi - Shikhar Dhawan (c), Anuj Rawat (wk), Ayush Badoni, Hiten Dalal, Himmat Singh, Jonty Sidhu, Vaibhav Kandpal, Karan Dagar, Kshitiz Sharma, Manjot Kalra, Pawan Negi, Nitish Rana, Pradeep Sangwan, Ishant Sharma, Siddhant Sharma, Simarjeet Singh, Pawan Suyal, Lakshay Thareja, Shivank Vashisht, Lalit Yadav Haryana - Ankit Kumar (c), Chaitanya Bishnoi, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ajit Chahal, Pramod Chandila, Arun Chaprana, Ashish Hooda, Kapil Hooda, Tinu Kundu, Aman Kumar, Sanjay Pahal, Harshal Patel, Himanshu Rana, Shubham Rohilla, Nitin Saini, Mohit Sharma, Rohit Parmod Sharma, Shivam Chauhan, Guntashveer Singh, Rahul Tewatia, Jayant Yadav, Yashu Sharma, Sumit Kumar Andhra - Ambati Rayudu (c), Srikar Bharat, Lalith Mohan, S Ashish, Ashwin Hebbar, Ricky Bhui, Dhruva Kumar Reddy, Girinath Reddy, SK Ismail, Karthik Raman, Kranthi Kumar, Manish Golamaru, Naren Reddy, Nitish Reddy, Prasanth Kumar, KV Sasikanth, Shoaib Md Khan, Cheepurapalli Stephen Mizoram - Pratik Desai (c), Taruwar Kohli, G Lalbiakvela, Lalhmangaiha, K Lalhmingmawia, Lalhruaizela, Khawlhring Lalremruata, KB Pawan, Parvez Ahmed, Andrew Vanlalhruaia, K Vanlalruata, Hmar Zothanchhunga, Bobby Zothansanga, Lalnunkima Varte, Lalhruai Ralte, Darremsanga, Lalfakzuala Renthlei, Sumit Lama Sikkim - Ajay Kumar Pradhan, Anureet Singh, Ashish Thapa, Bhusan Subba, Bibek Diyali, Dinesh Kumar Rai, James Lepcha, Lee Yong Lepcha, Mandup Bhutia, Md Ronak, Md Saptulla, Nilesh Lamichaney, Nitesh Kumar Gupta, Padam Bdr Limboo, Palzor Tamang, Pritam Nirala, Rajiv Malay Darjee, Robin Bist (c), Tashi Bhalla, Varun Sood Vidarbha - Ganesh Satish (c), Nachiket Bhute, Mohit Kale, Akshay Karnewar, Lalit M Yadav, Darshan Nalkande, Rushabh Rathod, Yash Rathod, Jitesh Sharma, Yash Thakur, Atharva Taide, Akshay Wadkar, Akshay Wakhare, Apoorv Wankhade, Siddhesh Wath Rajasthan - Ashok Menaria (c), Khaleel Ahmed, Akash Singh, Rajesh Bishnoi, Deepak Chahar, Rahul Chahar, Aniket Choudhary, Rajat Choudhary, Chandrapal Singh, Aditya Garhwal, Arjit Gupta, Salman Khan, Yash Kothari, Ankit Lamba, Mahipal Lomror, Manender Narender Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Tanveer-Ul-Haq Services - Arun Bamal, Anshul Gupta, Lakhan Singh, Nakul Sharma, Navneet Singh, Rajat Paliwal, Gahlaut Rahul Singh, Ravi Chauhan, Sumit Singh, Nakul Harpal Verma, Varun Choudhary, Vikas Hathwala, Mohit Kumar, Pulkit Narang, Nitin Yadav, Diwesh Pathania, Raushan Raj, Hardik Rajeev Sethi, Nitin Tanwar, Vikas Yadav Saurashtra - Jaydev Unadkat, Chirag Jani, Avi Barot , Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Harvik Desai, Arpit Vasavada, Samarth Vyas, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Prerak Mankad, Divyaraj Chauhan, Vandit Jivrajani, Parth Bhut , Agnivesh Ayachi, Krunal Karamchandani, Yuvraj Chudasama, Himalaya Barad, Kushang Patel, Parth Chauhan, Devang Karamta Meghalaya - Puneet Bisht, Kilco Marak, Wanlambok Nongkhlaw, Chengkam Sangma, Larry Sangma, Aditya Singhania, Akash Choudhary, Abhay Negi, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Dippu Sangma, Sanjay Yadav, Shaisngi Lyngdoh Manipur - Ahmed Shah (wk), Langlonyamba Keishangbam, Bishwash Singh, Kshetrimayum Narisingh (wk), Nitesh Sedai, Gemson Singh, Lamabam Singh , Prafullomani Singh, Rex Singh, Sagatpam Jayanta, Thokchom Kishan, Sheiteendra Singh, Karnajit Yumnam Kerala - Sanju Samson (c & wk), Sachin Baby, Abhishek Mohan, KM Asif, Basil Thampi, Akshay Chandran, Rohan Kunnummal, Vinoop Manoharan, Sudhesan Midhun, Mohammed Azharuddeen, MD Nidheesh, Salman Nizar, Jalaj Saxena, Vathsal Govind, S Sreesanth, Robin Uthappa, Vishnu Vinod Puducherry - Damodaren Rohit (c), Subramanian Anand, Paras Dogra, Vikneshwaran Marimuthu, Thamaraikannan Parandaman, Sheldon Jackson, S Karthik, A Aravindaraj, Fabid Ahmed, Iqlas Naha, Pankaj Singh, Sagar Trivedi, Sagar Udeshi, Ragupathy Madhya Pradesh - Parth Sahani (c), Rajat Patidar, Ankit Sharma, Avesh Khan, Abhishek Bhandari, Rishabh Chouhan, Mihir Hirwani, Venkatesh Iyer, Saransh Jain, Himanshu Mantri, Surendra Malviya, Arpit Gaud, Ishwar Pandey, Kuldeep Sen, Shantanu Raghuvanshi, Rakesh Thakur, Arshad Khan, Puneet Datey, Kumar Kartikeya, Ashutosh Sharma Goa - Amit Verma (c), Amogh Sunil Desai, Deepraj Gaonkar, Vaibhav Govekar, Aditya Kaushik, Eknath Kerkar, Amulya Pandrekar, Suyash Prabhudessai, Malliksab Sirur, Nihal Surlaker, Felix Alemao, Ashok Dinda, Lakshay Garg , Vishamber Kahlon, Snehal Suhas Kauthankar, Darshan Misal, Heramb Parab, Vijesh Prabhudessai, Shubham Desai

IND vs ENG: Jofra Archer ruled out of 2nd Test; England rest Anderson, drop Dom Bess

After winning the first Test convincingly against India, England suffered a setback in term of team selection as the pacer Jofra Archer has been ruled out of the second Test starting February 13 at Chepauk. Archer injured his right elbow and took injection for pain relief, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said ints statement. Reportedly, even before injuring his elbow, Archer had fallen sick and missed training session before the call was taken on the team for the second Test. Meanwhile, England have also released the 12-man team for the second Test and have excluded Dominic Bess and James Anderson along with Jos Buttler who is returning to the UK and Archer. In their places, they have included Moeen Ali, Olly Stone, Chris Woakes, and Stuart Broad in the 12-man team for the second Test. England are 1-0 up in the series and India will be under pressure to level the series in Chennai before the series will move to Ahmedabad for the third and fourth Test of the series.

Base Price- (2 Crore)	Base Price- (1.5 Crore)	Base Price- (1 Crore)	Prominent Players in Base Price- (<1 Crore)	Prominent Uncapped Players
Harbhajan Singh	Alex Hales	Hanuma Vihari	Carlos Brathwaite	Tanveer Sangha
Kedar Jadhav	Alex Carey	Umesh Yadav	Liam Livingstone	Arjun Tendulkar
Steve Smith	Dawid Malan	Aaron Finch	Shivam Dube	Vishnu Solanki
Glen Maxwell	Morne Morkel	Evin Lewis	Karun Nair	Mohammad Azharuddin
Mark Wood	Gregory Lewis	Sheldon Cottrell	Adam Milne	Avi Barot
Sam Billings	David Willey	Mustafizur Rahman	Thisara Perera	Hari Nishanth
Shakib Al Hasan	Tom Curran	Moises Henriques	Piyush Chawla	Lukman Meriwala
Moeen Ali	Shaun Marsh	Marnus Labuschagne	Ish Sodhi	Wes Agar
Jason Roy	Adil Rashid	Jason Behrendorff	Karn Sharma	Shahrukh Khan
Liam Plunkett	Mujeeb Ur Rahman	Billy Stanlake	Sandeep Lamichhane	Manimaran Siddharth
Jhye Richardson	Matthew Wade		Chris Morris	Riley Meredith
	Nathan Coulter-Nile		Devon Conway	Nathan Ellis
			Martin Guptill	Mark Steketee
			Cheteshwar Pujara
			Ben Cutting
			Rassie Van Der Dussen
			Kyle Jamieson
			Dan Christian
			Ben McDermott
			Jimmy Neesham
			Scott Kuggeleijn
			Kyle Mayers