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Teams likely to have a purse of INR 100 crore to build their squads for next season

Nagraj Gollapudi26-Oct-2023The IPL player auction ahead of the 2024 season will be held on December 19 in Dubai; it is the first time the auction will be held overseas.The event will coincide with the second ODI of India’s tour of South Africa, which is scheduled for December 19 in Gqeberha.The ten IPL teams have until November 15 to submit the lists of players they are retaining and releasing, after which the auction pool will be finalised by early December.Each team will have a purse of INR 100 crore (USD 12.02 million approximately) to build their squad for the 2024 season, a INR 5 crore increase from last season’s purse of INR 95 crore. How much each team has to spend on auction day depends on the value of players they release, in addition to their unspent purse from the 2023 auction.Punjab Kings have the largest purse at present – INR 12.20 crore (USD 1.47million) – while Mumbai Indians have the smallest at INR 0.05 crore (USD 0.006 million). Of the remaining teams Sunrisers Hyderabad have INR 6.55 crore (USD 0.79 million); Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals both have INR 4.45 crore (USD 0.54 million); Lucknow Super Giants have INR 3.55 crore (USD 0.43 million); Rajasthan Royals have USD 3.35 crore (USD 0.40 million); Royal Challengers Bangalore have INR 1.75 crore (USD 0.21 million); Kolkata Knight Riders have INR 1.65 crore (USD 0.2 million); and defending champions Chennai Super Kings have INR 1.5 crore (USD 0.18 million).Despite being only a day-long event – compared to the two-day mega auction once every four years – mini auctions have produced some of the most expensive buys, especially in the overseas players category. Ahead of the 2023 season, Sam Curran became the most expensive player in IPL history when he was bought by Punjab for INR 18.5 crore in December last year.Several prominent overseas players are likely to enter the upcoming auction, including Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc who recently said he was “definitely” heading back to the IPL after an eight-year hiatus. Pat Cummins is also likely to put his name up for bidding, having skipped the IPL last year. Some of the other key players franchises expect to see at the auction are Travis Head, Chris Woakes, Alex Hales, Sam Billings, and Gerald Coetzee.

Chasing 189, West Indies slumped to 100 all out with Shimron Hetmyer playing a lone hand of 56

Sidharth Monga07-Aug-2022India thrashed a seemingly directionless West Indies by 88 runs in the fifth T20I to end the series with a 4-1 scoreline. Both sides made four changes each for the dead rubber but West Indies looked like just going through the motions. Their bowlers bowled three no balls, and on more than one occasion didn’t seem interested in fielding the ball in their follow-through, and most tellingly their attack lacked quality: there was no express pace, no point of difference, no accuracy.With their regular openers Kyle Mayers and Brandon King rested, West Indies’ batting order was bizarre. Jason Holder opened, the right-hand batters were bunched together, and Axar Patel feasted on them in the powerplay. A forgettable series for captain Nicholas Pooran ended with a 6-ball 3. Playing their first matches of the series, wristspinners Kuldeep Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi had some fun against the hapless middle and lower order as West Indies slumped to 100 all out. This was the first time spinners had taken all 10 wickets in a men’s T20 international.Iyer, Hooda set India up
Having rested both Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav, India opened with Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer. On a pitch that was in use for a second day running, shot-making wasn’t as straightforward as Kishan discovered when he went to pull Dominic Drakes in the fifth over but managed only a top edge to mid-on.Iyer and Deepak Hooda, though, made batting look easy during the course of a 76-run stand in 7.2 overs. It helped that West Indies often failed to bowl to their fields. Iyer often got width with the field up on the off side, and gleefully kept hitting over the 30-yard circle. He also played a gorgeous aerial off-drive off Odean Smith for his second consecutive six in the eighth over.He was only to be outdone by Hooda who drove legspinner Hayden Walsh inside-out, into the wind and over extra-cover for India’s third straight six. From 95 for 1 in 10 overs, the two batters showed even higher intent, taking 17 off the 11th over, bowled by Obed McCoy for whom the series has gone south after his six-for in the second match. India were looking for a massive total here.Shreyas Iyer top-scored for India with 64 off 40 balls•AFP/Getty Images

The pullback
Walsh and Smith made a good comeback in the second half of the innings, which was interrupted for a while with the lightning-threat alarm going off. Under the Florida state laws, no sporting activity can go ahead if there is a threat of lightning in a seven-mile radius of the venue. Even the spectators had to find shelter.On the field, West Indies found some respite with the ball sticking into the surface. Before the break, Walsh went round the wicket with a change of ends, made Hooda hit into the wind on the leg side, and had him caught in the deep. Holder had Iyer caught and bowled for 64 off 40.Smith conceded just 18 off his last three overs – the 16th, 18th and 20th – by bowling into the pitch and varying his pace. He was rewarded with three wickets as India looked for quick runs. Except for the 19th over, in which stand-in captain Hardik Pandya hit Holder for two sixes and four, India struggled to score briskly. The last nine overs produced just 76 runs, but India had an imposing total on the board.Axar owns the powerplay
Possibly because India saw two right-hand batters walk in to open, they threw the new ball to Axar, who consistently troubled the right-hand batters with lack of turn. After being hit on the inside half of the bat twice, Holder looked to paddle Axar only to be beaten on the inside edge and have his leg stump knocked back. After a wicket-maiden at the start, Axar took out Devon Thomas and Shamarh Brroks in the fifth over. Thomas looked to cut but the ball skidded on to beat the inside edge. Brooks was stumped, also beaten on the inside edge.Wristspinners take over
Hetmyer played a lone hand of 56 off 35 at one end, but at the other, Kuldeep and Bishnoi wreaked havoc. Pooran was done in by a Kuldeep flipper, playing back to a full ball. Rovman Powell and Keemo Paul had no clue about the Bishnoi wrong’un. Drakes and Smith failed to respond to Kuldeep wrong’uns. Only Hetmyer stretched the innings before holing out to long-off off Bishnoi.

Both sides will likely need a bonus point victory to qualify for the final against New South Wales

ESPNcricinfo staff07-Apr-2021Western Australia have been able to stack their one-day side with Australia players for their final Marsh Cup group match against Tasmania at the WACA with both sides chasing a bonus-point victory to qualify for the final against New South Wales.D’Arcy Short, Ashton Turner and Jason Behrendorff have been included along with Josh Philippe, Mitchell Marsh and Ashton Agar who were part of the recent Sheffield Shield squad. All six were in the Australia squad that toured New Zealand and had to undergo two weeks quarantine when they returned.If Behrendorff, the left-arm quick, makes the starting XI it will be his first appearance for Western Australia since October 2018.However, the home side will be without Shaun Marsh who is unavailable for personal reasons. Fast bowlers Matt Kelly and Joel Paris both picked up injuries in the Shield match against Tasmania.Tasmania have also been boosted by the availability of Ben McDermott who has recovered from a hamstring injury but are without three first-choice quicks: Riley Meredith (IPL), Nathan Ellis (injury) and Peter Siddle (border restrictions).A bonus-point victory for either side would see them leapfrog Queensland into second place and leave them ruing the fact they missed a double bonus point by one run against South Australia late last month which was followed by a heavy defeat against New South Wales.The final will take place at Bankstown Oval in Sydney on April 11.Western Australia squad Mitch Marsh (capt), Ashton Agar, Jason Behrendorff, Hilton Cartwright, Cameron Green, Liam Guthrie, Josh Inglis, David Moody, Lance Morris, Josh Philippe, D’Arcy Short, Ashton Turner, Sam WhitemanTasmania squad Matthew Wade (capt), Tom Andrews, Jackson Bird, Jake Doran, Jarrod Freeman, Caleb Jewell, Ben McDermott, Mitch Owen, Tim Paine, Alex Pyecroft, Sam Rainbird, Tom Rogers, Jordan Silk, Beau Webster

Rumana Ahmed, Lata Mondal left out for the 13th South Asian Games

ESPNcricinfo staff21-Nov-2019Bangladesh Women have made sweeping changes to their T20I squad for the 13th South Asian Games to be held in Nepal in December. Puja Chakravorthy and Rabeya have earned their maiden call-ups, while allrounder Rumana Ahmed, who had returned as captain for the ODIs against Pakistan earlier this month, has been left out. The other notable absentees include Panna Ghosh – who has been named as one of the standbys – and Lata Mondal and Sharmin Sultana.Fahima Khatun, Nahida Akter and Murshida Khatun, Ritu Moni and Shobnam Mostary have returned to the side. They all were part of Bangladesh’s win in the final of the women’s T20 qualifiers against Thailand in September but were left out of the 15-member squad for the Pakistan tour, being named as standbys then.While Bangladesh were whitewashed in the three-match T20I series against Pakistan, Rumana played a crucial role in helping Bangladesh tie the ODI series 1-1 by scoring 31 and picking up three wickets in the second match in Lahore. Sultana had played just the first ODI, while Ghosh and Mondal, who played all the five limited-overs games, had a lukewarm series. Sanjida Aker Meghla, Sharmin Akhter, Ekka Mollik are the other absentees from that squad.The South Asian Games tournament is scheduled to be played from December 1 to 10 in Kathmandu and Pokhara, with Bangladesh set to play their first match against Maldives on opening day.Squad: Salma Khatun, Nigar Sultana Joty, Jahanara Alam, Ayesha Rahman, Fargana Haque, Murshida Khatun, Sanjida Islam, Shobnam Mostary, Fahima Khatun, Shamima Sultana, Nahida Akhter, Kadija-Tu-Kubra, Ritu Moni, Puja Chakravorthy, Rabeya
Standbys: Mimta Hena Hasnat, Fariha Islam, Suraya Azmim, Panna Ghosh, Saila Sharmin

Their inclusion means Bangladesh now have 11 frontline batsmen at their disposal for the rest of the Asia Cup

Mohammad Isam21-Sep-2018Batsmen Soumya Sarkar and Imrul Kayes have been added to Bangladesh’s Asia Cup squad, which has suffered a spate of injuries. The additions were announced after Bangladesh were bowled out for 173 against India; a second batting debacle following their 136-run loss to Afghanistan on Thursday.Bangladesh’s leading batsmen have suffered setbacks: Tamim Iqbal fractured his wrist against Sri Lanka and is out of the tournament, while Shakib Al Hasan (finger) and Mushfiqur Rahim (rib) have been playing despite injuries. The bigger worry, however, has been the poor form of the younger batsmen.Openers Liton Das and Nazmul Hossain Shanto have been ineffective so far, so have Mominul Haque and Mosaddek Hossain, while Mohammad Mithun has scored one fifty in three innings.Both Soumya and Imrul have had played little cricket lately. They last featured in ODIs in the away series against South Africa last year, where Soumya played one match scoring 8 – making his tally 42 in his last five ODI appearances. Imrul played all three, totalling 100 runs. Neither was picked in the subsequent tri-series at home, or for the tour of West Indies in July-August.Their inclusion means Bangladesh now have 11 frontline batsmen at their disposal for the rest of the Asia Cup.Squad: Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), Shakib Al Hasan (vc), Mohammad Mithun, Liton Das, Mushfiqur Rahim, Ariful Haque, Mahmudullah, Mosaddek Hossain, Nazmul Hossain, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Nazmul Islam, Rubel Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Abu Hider, Mominul Haque, Soumya Sarkar, Imrul Kayes

The BCCI has agreed to accept most of the Lodha recommendations after an SGM on Wednesday, but were strongly against implementing five reforms

Nagraj Gollapudi26-Jul-2017After several months of staunch resistance, the BCCI members – state associations – have unanimously decided to implement most of the Lodha Committee recommendations with the exception of five broad reforms. The BCCI took the decision at a special general meeting (SGM) in Delhi on Wednesday, which was attended by all members including the newly-inducted north-eastern states.The recommendations that the BCCI said it has difficulty implementing include: membership status which includes the one-state-one-vote reform, disqualification of office bearers, ministers and government officials based on eligibility criteria such as the age cap, tenure and cooling off period, the strength of the Apex Council – which replaces the existing working committee, the division of powers between the office bearers and the professional management, and strength of the national selection committee.All five recommendations singled out by the BCCI on Wednesday have been raised by board members consistently in the past as major stumbling blocks preventing reforms.The one-state-one-vote recommendation primarily affects six members – Maharashtra, Mumbai, Vidarbha, Gujarat, Baroda and Saurashtra. According to the Lodha Committee, the six votes would be reduced to two with rotating representation at the board meetings every year. However, the BCCI wants the existing membership status to be restored. The BCCI also wants the voting powers granted at present to government institutions comprising Railways, Services and the Universities to be retained.The most contentious reform the BCCI is against is the eligibility criteria for an office bearer or a representative of a state association to attend board meetings. The BCCI wants a cooling-off period of three years after every term applicable to an office bearer removed because a maximum tenure of nine years has already been prescribed. It also does not want to impose the 70-year age cap put in place by the Lodha Committee for office bearers and administrators. The Indian board is also against not allowing government employees to be part of any board committee.Another area that concerns the BCCI is the distribution of power granted to the office bearers and the board’s professional management, led by the CEO. Under the existing system, the BCCI secretary informally carries out the role of the CEO and shares the power with the board president.Under the Lodha Committee’s recommendations, the role of the office bearers would be diminished while the CEO would be granted significant independent decision-making powers. Many of the BCCI members are against ceding control.The Lodha Committee had also suggested replacing the powerful BCCI working committee, which approves all decisions, with a nine-member Apex Council, comprising five office bearers – president, secretary, joint-secretary, treasurer and a vice-president – and a single representative from the general body (all BCCI members). At the SGM on Wednesday, the BCCI argued that the number of representatives from the general body – ideally one from each of the five zones – should sit on the Apex Council.The final reform the BCCI wanted the court to reconsider is increasing the number of heads on the national selection panel to five, two more than the Lodha Committee’s recommendation. The BCCI had already trimmed the selection panel to three, immediately after the Supreme Court approved the recommendations last year.On July 18 last year, the Supreme Court had approved the recommendations and asked the BCCI to implement them within six months from that seminal order. The BCCI remained unaffected. The court then put in place a Committee of Administrators on January 30 this year tasking it with implementing the recommendations.Various BCCI members raised objections, pointing out some of the recommendations could not be practically implemented and went against the constitution of both the board and their respective state associations.On Monday, the Supreme Court directed the BCCI to implement as many recommendations as were “practicable” at the SGM. The court also pointed out that it would revisit some of the recommendations the BCCI had highlighted in the past.According to more than one BCCI members who attended the SGM, the moderate tone of the court’s order on Monday gave an extra leash to those who stalled the reform process. “When the Supreme Court is giving us the liberty to choose [which recommendations to implement], then why object?” a member who attended the SGM said. “When the court itself is not keen in implementing some reforms and it openly says some are impracticable then how can they persuade the members?”

Sussex completed their first win of the season in the Specsavers County Championship after beating Derbyshire by 10 wickets at Hove

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ScorecardOllie Robinson finished with four wickets in the second innings•Getty Images

Sussex completed their first win of the season in the Specsavers County Championship after beating Derbyshire by 10 wickets at Hove.Derbyshire did have the satisfaction of making Sussex bat again after they were dismissed for 307, but Sussex’s openers Chris Nash and Ed Joyce needed just three balls to knock off their victory target of 11 runs to secure their first Championship win at Hove for more than a year.Resuming on 195 for 6, Derbyshire lost Matt Critchley in the fifth over of the day after the start had been delayed until 1.10pm because of rain.Critchley gloved a lifter from Steve Magoffin before Ollie Robinson struck in successive overs. Shiv Thakor, who had top scored in Derbyshire’s first innings 150 with 49, again impressed in making 81 from No. 6 from 102 balls with ten fours and it needed a good delivery which held its line and found the edge to remove him.Robinson had Tom Taylor caught by Ross Taylor, diving to his left at third slip in his next over to leave Derbyshire 256 for 9, still requiring 41 to make Sussex bat again.But the hosts were held up by some merry tail-end hitting by Tony Palladino and Ben Cotton, who smashed 53 from 29 balls together before Cotton was bowled by Ajmal Shahzad for 25.”There’s a great sense of relief that we have got that first win,” Mark Davis, the Sussex head coach, said. “We haven’t had the best of things with the weather this season and when I got up this morning and saw the rain I feared the worst but our groundstaff did a terrific job, both today and on the first day when they got the ground fit for us to have 40 overs and take nine wickets which really set us up for the victory.”I thought we bowled well in both innings and with the bat we were relentless. We’ve got a block of one-day cricket now and we’ll take some momentum from this into that.”Derbyshire batsman Wayne Madsen admitted it had been a tough four days for his team. “Being bowled out for 150 in the first innings put us under massive pressure against a good Sussex team.”It’s a massive learning curve, particularly for our young bowlers, at the moment and we have to make sure when we get back to red-ball cricket we learn from our mistakes and put things right.”But there is still a good vibe in the squad. We’re fighting hard and we will work hard to find the consistency of performance we need.”

Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim is determined to keep Pakistan winless until the end of their tour

Mohammad Isam in Mirpur05-May-2015Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim is determined to keep Pakistan winless until the end of their tour. Misbah-ul-Haq’s side has only the second and final Test in Mirpur to try and win something on this trip after losing the practice match, three ODIs, the T20 and then drawing the Khulna Test.To achieve that goal, taking 20 wickets is top priority for Mushfiqur. With Rubel Hossain out with a side strain – Abul Hasan, with three wickets at 123.66, is the replacement in the squad – Bangladesh have less experience in their bowling group. The pair from Narayanganj, Shahadat Hossain and Mohammad Shahid, could form the two-man pace attack and Mushfiqur said they will pick a specialist spinner if that was the case.”I will hope to begin this Test confidently with all those positives from the previous Test and the rest of the tour,” Mushfiqur said. “There is certainly just one goal. This is the final Test of the series and we will do whatever we need to do to win the match. Everyone is working hard towards it. We will try to keep them winless on this tour. We will want to finish it on a high so that the next series we play, we have the momentum for that.”Obviously they will also try to take our 20 wickets and will form their XI that way. In Khulna the wicket was of course batting friendly, still our bowlers tried. We have two options in our bowling attack. We have Abul Hasan and Shahadat Hossain, but we haven’t decided yet. We are hoping the wicket will help the bowlers. We could use two or a three-man pace attack. If we have two pace bowlers, then we will pick an extra spinner.”A higher-ranked team touring Bangladesh to play all three formats has never left without at least one victory. Kenya, Zimbabwe and Scotland (2006), Ireland (2008) and New Zealand (2010) were winless in ODIs. Last year Zimbabwe lost the Tests 3-0 and ODIs 5-0. In 2013, New Zealand drew both Tests and lost the ODI series 3-0, but finished the tour with a win in the T20. In 2009, Bangladesh beat West Indies 2-0 in Tests, 3-0 in ODIs but lost the T20.Mushfiqur said that far from being an upset, if his team won the second Test it would emphasise that this was Bangladesh’s best bilateral series. “I don’t think it will be an upset, if you see the way the boys have been playing in the last two or three months. There was a lot of talk that we have been playing in ODIs and not in Tests, but we have shown that we are capable of doing well in Tests too. Still I will say that it is a different pitch and ground so we have to be prepared for more fight. I think the boys are ready to fight for five days and after that hopefully we will grab a win and win the series.”So far the way we have performed, I don’t think we have done so in the past. We had three different teams in three different formats, so the challenge was no less. Also in our home ground there was expectation that we will retain our performance of the World Cup. Then there were expectations about the Test series.”Mushfiqur expressed concern over Shakib Al Hasan’s bowling form but backed him to succeed after poor returns in the Khulna Test. “Yes it’s a concern. Because he is the best bowler of the team, we always expect he will take five or six wickets, so when he gets one or two wickets it seems not that good by his own standards,” Mushfiqur said. “He is aware of that and he has a very good record in Mirpur against all the teams. So what he did right in the past I think if he can do that … I am really looking forward to it.”

Phillip Hughes was within touching distance of a century at stumps on day two of his first match for South Australia, but Queensland were in a powerful position thanks to Ben Cutting’s maiden first-class hundred

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ScorecardBen Cutting scored 109 from 78 deliveries•Getty Images

Phillip Hughes was within touching distance of a century at stumps on day two of his first match for South Australia, but Queensland were in a powerful position thanks to Ben Cutting’s maiden first-class hundred. The Redbacks finished the day in major trouble at 7 for 164, still 234 runs adrift of Queensland’s first-innings total, and the only positive for South Australia was that Hughes was still at the crease on 95, alongside Joe Mennie on 5.In his first outing for the Redbacks since moving from New South Wales during the off-season, Hughes carried with him the strong form that he showed for Worcestershire in county cricket this year. He struck 12 boundaries and was a lone resisting hand for South Australia as none of the rest of the top six managed to score more than 11.The wicketkeeper Tim Ludeman (28) gave Hughes some support in a 58-run partnership but the Bulls, led by their captain James Hopes with 3 for 26 from 15 overs, did not allow South Australia to gain any sort of momentum. There had been plenty of momentum during the tail-end of Queensland’s innings as Cutting propelled himself to triple-figures for the first time.Cutting was in an aggressive mood and struck four sixes and 12 fours, and brought up his century from the last ball before lunch with a leg glance for two. Gary Putland picked up 5 for 100 but there wasn’t much for South Australia to celebrate.