The Indian T20 Cricket League or IPL is the most famous cricket league in the world. Every cricketer in the world dreams of playing in the IPL but only a few are able to achieve this goal. The players’ desire to play in the IPL is so strong that they want to be a part of the league even after retirement. In fact, on November 5, BCCI made a big announcement regarding the IPL 2025 mega auction. It is reported that before the 18th season, the IPL 2025 large-scale auction will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from November 24th to 25th. This is the second consecutive year that the IPL auction is being held abroad. The last auction before IPL 2024 is held in Dubai, UAE.
A total of 1,574 cricketers, including 1,165 Indian players, have registered their names in the IPL mega auction. This includes 320 capped and 1224 uncapped players as well as 30 players from partner countries. From these numbers, we can estimate how popular IPL is around the world. The most surprising thing is that a 42-year-old legendary bowler who has bid farewell to international cricket also named the auction after himself. We are talking about a player who took 991 wickets in international cricket. Now you must understand what we are talking about. Yes, the player’s name is James Anderson and he has registered his name in the IPL auction.
The last T20I was played 15 years ago
Anderson, who took over 700 wickets in Test cricket, bid farewell to cricket in July this year. Just days after announcing his retirement, Anderson expressed his desire to play T20 cricket. He has said that he still wants to play cricket and is considering trying out T20 cricket. He has said that he wants to enjoy franchise cricket. Then no one expected him to appear in the big auction of IPL.
Notably, James Anderson has kept the reserve price for the mega auction at Rs 125 crore. Anderson last played a T20I match for England 15 years ago in 2009, while he last played T20 cricket in 2014. It will now be interesting to see which team will buy him in the IPL auction.
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