'Chaaron ka mila kar hoga' - Fans react as 4 out-of-action Indian players set their base price INR 2 Crores

In a recent piece of news, a total of 1,166 registered for the IPL 2024 mini-auction, which is set to be held on Tuesday, December 19, 2023. Star performers in the recently concluded ODI World Cup 2023, including the likes of Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Daryl Mitchell and Rachin Ravindra also registered for the auction of the next edition of the tournament.

Meanwhile, a few of the Indian players who are currently ‘out-of-action’ from the regular cricket have surprisingly set their base price of INR 2 crores. The list of these players includes the likes of Harshal Patel, Kedar Jadhav, Umesh Yadav, and Shardul Thakur.

“Of the 830 Indians, 18 are capped players, namely Varun Aaron, KS Bharat, Kedar Jadhav, Siddarth Kaul, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shivam Mavi, Shahbaz Nadeem, Karun Nair, Manish Pandey, Harshal Patel, Chetan Sakariya, Mandeep Singh, Barinder Sran, Shardul Thakur, Jaydev Unadkat, Hanuma Vihari, Sandeep Warrier and Umesh Yadav,” reads a report in Cricbuzz.

“Of the capped Indians, only four - Harshal Patel, Kedar Jadhav, Shardul Thakur, and Umesh Yadav - all recently released by their franchises, have set their base price at a maximum of Rs 2 crore. The remaining 14 will be available at the reserve price of Rs 50 lakh,” the report adds further.

IPL 2024 mini-auction to be held in three weeks 

Notably, the mini-auction for the 17^th edition of the Indian Premier League will be held on Sunday, December 19, 2023.

Coming back to the capped Indian players with base price of INR 2 crores, this news also garnered a lot of reactions from the cricket fans. Some of the fans also predicted that this decision of 2-crore base price decision might lead to the players going unsold during the min-auction for the IPL 2023.

“Franchisees have also been instructed to respond with a list of players from the Register that they would like to be included in the Auction, with a reminder that only 77 slots are to be filled, of which a maximum of 30 can be overseas players,” reads Cricbuzz report.

Here’s how fans reacted: 

चारो का मिला कर ?

— How Dare You Isolated Monk ? (@IsolatedMonk) December 1, 2023

That's an exciting auction price! Can't wait to see them perform in IPL 2024.

— Stewie (@StewzieGriffin) December 1, 2023

Summing up all useless players lol

— ADIfications (@adi_fications) December 1, 2023

Harshal Patel will be brutal if selected in Chennai or Lucknow. Those grounds suits him.

— World of Sujith (@worldofsujith88) December 1, 2023

Not sure Harshal will get that. He cannot mankad good.

— Himanshu Pareek (@Sports_Himanshu) December 1, 2023

Umesh Yadav will definitely be picked at high price. He can be dangerous in Indian pitches. Harshal Patel career has gone down after each domestic and IPL season. Kedar to remain unsold

— Sports syncs (@moiz_sports) December 1, 2023

Kedar going to unsold

— ANANT 🇮🇳 (@Akk_vk18) December 1, 2023

Harshal patel ko 5 cr toh easily mil jayege, umesh shayad unsold jayega

— shreyas iyer (parody) (@shreyas_iyerkkr) December 1, 2023

Great👏👏

Excited😇

For ipl 🙌

— GORDXROHIT (@gordxrohit) December 1, 2023

Jitesh and Rinku Cooking today🔥🔥

— Guri Pbks (@Guri_Pbks) December 1, 2023

Kedar is he still playing

— Balaji Iyengar (@imbalaji007) December 1, 2023