New Delhi, Jan 13 (PTI) A fierce bidding war for Indianstars, including Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and GautamGambhir, will headline the upcoming IPL auction which will seemore than 1000 players go under the hammer.
Besides the 2011 World Cup-winning trio, off spinnerRavichandran Ashwin, Ajinkya Rahane, mystery spinner KuldeepYadav and openers K L Rahul and Murali Vijay are likely to beon top of every franchise's wish list.
A whopping 1122 players have signed to be part of theupcoming auction, the BCCI announced today. The auction isscheduled to take place in Bengaluru on January 27 and 28.
Among the international cricketers, Chris Gayle and BenStokes lead the list. While Stokes,the costliest buy in 2017,played only one season, Gayle was not retained by RoyalChallengers Bangalore.
The list, sent out to the eight IPL franchises, has 281capped players, 838 uncapped players, including 778 Indiansand three players from the Associate nations.
About 282 overseas - 58 from Australia, 57 from SouthAfrica, 39 each from Sri Lanka and West Indies, 30 from NewZealand, and 26 from England have registered for the auction.
From Australia, hoping to show his full range of strokesin this edition's IPL will be Glenn Maxwell along with PatCummins and Mitchell Johnson, who bowled Mumbai Indians totheir third title last season with his final over heroics.
England's Test captain, Joe Root, has also thrown his hatinto the ring along with big names like Ben Stokes, ChrisLynn, Eoin Morgan and pacers Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins.
Dwayne Bravo, Carlos Brathwaite, Evin Lewis and JasonHolder will add the Caribbean flavor to the auction.
Hashim Amla, who hit two centuries for Kings XI Punjab inthe 10th season, will be hoping for a high bid withcompatriots Faf du Plessis, Quinton de Kock, David Miller andspeedsters Morne Morkel and Kagiso Rabada.
Kane Williamson, Colin Munro and Tom Latham from NewZealand will add the Kiwi charm.
Afghanistan, too, will see 13 players along with eightfrom Bangladesh, two from Ireland, seven from Zimbabwe and twofrom the USA. PTI APA AHAH.
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