The IPL 2021 will hold the auction on February 11 at a venue not yet decided. The BCCI has reportedly given the deadline of January 20 for the franchises to submit the list of players who have been retained and released. While this announcement has made the franchises busy in co-ordinating which players should be released or who should be retained, it makes for an interesting analysis of what the franchise thinks heading into the IPL 2021. Each team will be wanting the best players in order to plug the holes and deficiencies that the team might be suffering from.
What will be the strategy of the teams heading into the IPL 2021 auction which is reportedly going to take place on February 11? Which players are likely to be released and which players might be retained. Here is an explainer of all these factors. The first team in focus is Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Royal Challengers Bangalore squad in IPL 2020
Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Gurkeerat Mann, Devdutt…