England Test skipper Joe Root and Australian speedster Mitchell Starc opted out while returning from their respective bans, Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan and India’s S Sreesanth were among the 1097 players who registered for the Indian Premier League auction to be held in Chennai on February 18, reported PTI.
Left-arm pacer Arjun Tendulkar, son of Sachin Tendulkar, also enrolled in the auction with a base price of Rs 20 lakh.
A total of 814 players from India and 283 from overseas registered for the auction with most entries coming from the West Indies (56) followed by Australia (42) and South Africa (38).
While Starc, who last played in the T20 league in 2015, missed out once more, Root – centurion on the first day of the ongoing opening Test against India – didn’t enroll for the second successive time, joining fellow England players Harry Gurney and Tom Banton, who also did not register.
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