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IPL 2023: Royal Challengers Bangalore trade Jason Behrendorff to Mumbai Indians

The left-arm fast bowler was with Mumbai from 2018 to 2020 as well but played only five games

Australia's left-arm fast bowler Jason Behrendorff will return to Mumbai Indians after Royal Challengers Bangalore traded him ahead of IPL 2023. He was acquired by Royal Challengers at the 2022 auction for his base price of INR 75 lakh but didn't get any game-time.

Behrendorff has been part of the IPL for the last five years but he has spent four of those years on the bench. He was with Mumbai from 2018 to 2020 but got a chance to play only in the 2019 season. That year, he picked up five wickets in as many games at an economy rate of 8.68.

In 2021, Chennai Super Kings drafted him as a replacement for Josh Hazlewood. He did not make an appearance in the first half of the tournament, and Hazlewood returned when the competition resumed in the UAE.

Behrendorff has represented Australia in nine T20Is, picking 7 wickets with a best of 4 for 21. In all, he has 117 wickets in 105 T20s at an economy of 7.41

Jasprit Bumrah, Jofra Archer, Riley Meredith and Daniel Sams are some of the other fast bowlers Mumbai currently have in their squad. The most successful team in IPL's history, Mumbai finished tenth in a ten-team tournament in 2022.

The auction for the 2023 season will take place in Kochi on December 23. It will be a mini auction as opposed to the mega auction ahead of the 2022 edition, when the ten franchises had to rebuild their squads virtually from scratch. In addition to the money left over from their previous auction purse and the value of the players they release, each team will have an additional INR 5 crore (approx. US $607,000) to spend at this auction, making the overall purse INR 95 crore (approx. US $11.5 million).

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Ee sari IPL boycott... it's working against India

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Lockie Ferguson and Rahmanullah Gurbaz traded from Gujarat Titans to Kolkata Knight Riders

New Zealand fast bowler Lockie Ferguson has been traded from Gujarat Titans to Kolkata Knight Riders for the upcoming TATA IPL 2023. He played 13 matches for Gujarat Titans and picked 12 wickets that included a 4-wicket haul.  

Kolkata Knight Riders have also traded Afghanistan wicketkeeper-batter Rahmanullah Gurbaz from Gujarat Titans. He was included in the Gujarat Titans squad in the 2022 TATA IPL edition as a replacement for England batter Jason Roy but did not play any game last season. 

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England Wicketkeeper Sam Billings To Skip IPL 2023 To Focus On “Longer Format Cricket”

 

 

 

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Shardul Thakur traded from Delhi Capitals to Kolkata Knight Riders

He had finished IPL 2022 with 15 wickets in 14 matches at an economy of 9.79, among his weakest bowling numbers since IPL 2017

In a significant trade, Kolkata Knight Riders have acquired India allrounder Shardul Thakur from Delhi Capitals. The trade, which ESPNcricinfo has learned was finalised on Monday, is an all-cash deal but also involves Capitals getting uncapped Mumbai allrounder Aman Khan, who Knight Riders had bought at last year's auction for INR 20 lakh (USD 26,000 approx).

Thakur, who is currently in New Zealand as part of India's ODI squad, was bought by Capitals at the 2022 IPL mega auction for INR 10.75 crore ($1.433 m approx.). With Indian bowling allrounders being a prized commodity, Thakur's former IPL team Chennai Super Kings - along with Gujarat Titans and Punjab Kings - too had attempted to buy him back, but Capitals did not retreat.

Thakur had finished the IPL 2022 season with 15 wickets in 14 matches at an economy of 9.79, among his weakest bowling numbers since he became an IPL regular in 2017. As for his batting, he finished with 120 runs and a strike rate of almost 138.

Knight Riders have been the most active franchise before the trading window closes on Tuesday, which also happens to be the deadline the IPL has set for teams to finalise the list of players they want to retain or release. The retention window is scheduled to close on Tuesday at 5pm IST.

Thakur is the third player whom Knight Riders have acquired via a trade, after getting the pair of Lockie Ferguson and Rahmanullah Gurbaz from Titans in another all-cash deal.

One reason Capitals bid hard to get him last season was also because the IPL was played solely in Mumbai, Thakur's hometown and the team he represents in domestic cricket. But with the 2023 IPL reverting to its original home-and-away format, Capitals' thinktank would have weighed Thakur's numbers at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, their own home ground in Delhi.

In the half a dozen IPL matches he has played there, Thakur has picked just three wickets in 20 overs in which he has leaked 209 runs at an economy rate of 10.95. But at Eden Gardens, Knight Riders' home base, Thakur has played just two matches with a good record: he has two wickets in seven overs while giving away only 39 runs at an economy of 5.57.

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Be ready for so many Big names to be part of released list for the up-coming mini auction..

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4 hours ago, Kool_SRG said:

Be ready for so many Big names to be part of released list for the up-coming mini auction..

yup hearing big names like pollard,kane, mayank will be released

Stokes, curran and green will go very big if they are part of the ipl mini auction...

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Cummins opts out of IPL 2023

Kolkata Knight Riders fast bowler Pat Cummins has opted out of IPL 2023 in order to "take some rest" ahead of the Ashes and the 50-over World Cup scheduled next year.

Cummins was bought at the 2022 auction by Knight Riders for INR 7.25 crore. His stint at the IPL 2022 was cut short by a hip injury. He played five games last season, picking up seven wickets including 3 for 22 in his last game against Mumbai Indians. He also hit the joint-fastest fifty in the tournament's history.

 

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Delhi Capitals offload batters

News finally trickling in. ESPNcricinfo has learned that Delhi Capitals have released Mandeep Singh, KS Bharat, New Zealand's Tim Seifert and Andhra batting allrounder Ashwin Hebbar. This is in addition to them losing the services of Shardul Thakur to KKR.

Capitals had finished fifth last season. They had played Bharat, a wicketkeeper-batter, only twice with Rishabh Pant the No. 1 wicketkeeeping choice. Seifert, too, played only two games while Mandeep played three. None of them made significant impact in their outings, while Hebbar never got a game. Hebbar, though, was the second-highest run-scorer in the Andhra Premier League recently.

The release of these four players frees up 3.70 crore for the Capitals.

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POLLARD BIDS GOOD BYE TO IPL  😢

 

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