Stokes missing from IPL's list of 1,574 players ahead of auction

PTI Mumbai: England's Ben Stokes is missing from the long list of 1,574 players while former pacer James Anderson has registered himself at a base price of Rs 1.25 crore ahead of the IPL mega auction to be held in Jeddah on November 24 and 25. The list, which will be shortened after the franchises provide their inputs, has all the marquee Indian players who were released from their teams including Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, R Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal. Each of these players have listed themselves at a base price of Rs 2 crore. India quick Mohammed Shami, who has been sidelined from action due to various injuries since last November, was also released by his former team Gujarat Titans and has listed himself at Rs 2 crore as has left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh. Among the other Indian players with the maximum base price of Rs 2 crore are Khaleel Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar, Venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan, Deepak Chahar, Ishan Kishan, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

This list also includes Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj , Devdut t Padikkal , Krunal Pandya, Harshal Patel, Prasidh Krishna, T Natarajan, Arshdeep Singh, Washington Sundar and Umesh Yadav. India batters Sarfaraz Khan and Prithvi Shaw, who were unsold in the last IPL auction, have registered themselves at the base price of Rs 75 lakh. Stokes decided to give the last season of the IPL a miss in order to manage his workload and focus on his fitness.

The 42-year-Anderson, who retired from Test cricket earlier this year, has registered for the IPL for the first time. The veteran pacer last played a T20 10 years ago in 2014. He has never competed in a global franchise T20 league. Ace Australian off-spinner Nathan Lyon, who has gone unsold in previous auctions, has also entered the fray with the a base price of Rs 2 crore.