IPL Auction: After the way the franchise teams have shown interest in uncapped players during the IPL auction, it can be said that IPL can be a great opportunity for the players who are uncapped, i.e. new and who do not have much name. But what happened to Shashank Singh of Chhattisgarh was surprising.
Apart from Punjab, no team bid for Shashank Singh.
Actually Shashank Singh has been bought by Punjab Kings. Apart from Punjab Kings, no team bid for Shashank Singh. Shashank Singh has been bought by Punjab Kings at the base price of Rs 20. When the auction of Shashank Singh ended and the auctioneers moved towards another player, there was chaos in the camp of Punjab Kings, the reason was that Punjab Kings did not want to buy Shashank Singh, by mistake they bid on Shashank Singh. . When the auctioneer moved towards Tanay Thiagarajan, Ness Wadia and Preity Zinta signaled him, but by then it was too late and nothing could be done after the hammer came down.
Punjab Kings’ objection rejected outright
Auctioneer Mallika Sagar rejected Punjab Kings’ objection outright and Shashank Singh joined the Punjab Kings camp like an uninvited guest. Actually, there were two Shashank Singhs in the IPL 2024 auction. One was 32-year-old Shashank Singh, who was released by Sunrisers due to poor performance, while on the other hand, there was 19-year-old young player Shashank who has not played first-class cricket yet. His base price was also only Rs 20 lakh, due to which Punjab Kings got confused.
Delhi Capitals made a mistake in the auction also
It is not that this kind of mistake has happened for the first time in the IPL auction, even before this many types of mistakes have come to light. This time too, Delhi Capitals made a mistake in the auction, they had to bid for Sumit Kumar, but they bid for Sumit Verma. Although Sourav Ganguly later corrected the mistake, since the hammer had not gone down, Delhi’s mistake was corrected, but this was not possible in the case of Shashank Singh.