All eyes of world cricket might be on the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 public sale on December 19. Though it is a mini-auction, 77 slots are to be crammed from a bunch of 333 gamers. Out of 333 gamers, 214 are Indians and 119 are abroad gamers of which 2 gamers are from affiliate nations. The complete capped gamers are 116, uncapped gamers are 215 and a couple of from affiliate nations. A complete of 30 abroad gamers are to be picked. Leading as much as the IPL 2024 public sale, all of the speak concerning the potential costliest bid has been surrounding abroad gamers.

Australia’s Mitchell Starc has been primed to go for an enormous quantity. However, former Indian cricket group coach and captain Anil Kumble feels that the Rs 20 crore mark won’t be breached.

“No, I don’t think the Rs 20-crore mark will be breached. This is where I feel in a squad of 25 players, where you have eight overseas players, the purse also needs to be one third for the overseas players,” Anil Kumble mentioned on Jio Cinema.

“I think that’s something that should happen eventually. Otherwise, you will see a lot of disparity at the auction. I know the overseas fans won’t be happy with what I am saying, but I think it’s important that you look at that to be a benchmark.”

Anil Kumble had an attention-grabbing suggestion in bridging the hole.

“You have a separate overseas purse, otherwise you will see this disparity of 50%, 60% of the squad where you have options for only four players,” Anil Kumble added.

“With eight India players now part of the playing XI, that will help them, especially in these smaller auctions. There will be the challenge of bridging this gap and you will invariably go to the overseas players.”

Players can begin bidding for as little as Rs 2 crore, with the expectation that the highest will command a lot bigger sums. There is loads of hypothesis about who might be rewarded handsomely.

This might be a mini-event, however there’ll undoubtedly be some giant cash thrown round and a few important strikes made given the kind of gamers that sure groups have launched and among the names which are up for grabs. This 12 months’s public sale pool contains quite a lot of nig names in addition to some younger names that would spark bidding wars.

With ANI inputs