Why Ishant, Irfan went unsold in the IPL auctions
NEW DELHI: When one looks at the 2017 Indian Premier League auction, there were some surprises. England’s Ben Stokes and Tymal Mills were snapped up for record sums of ~14.5 crore and ~12 crore by Rising Pune Supergiants and Royal Challengers Bangalore respectively. Among the Indian players, Karn Sharma was the most expensive pick as he was picked up by Mumbai Indians for ~3.2 crore. However, two notable players went unsold in the 2017 IPL Auction. They were Ishant Sharma and Irfan Pathan. Both these players, who were part of the Rising Pune Supergiants franchise in the 2016 IPL, went unsold. The lack of buyers for these two players left many people surprised.
He played only one Test against England and the
Test against Bangladesh and in both matches he impressed. Although he picked up only three wickets in each match, he bowled with hostility and aggression. In the Hyderabad Test against Bangladesh, he bowled wonderfully with the new ball and the old ball and troubled the batsmen with reverse swing and bouncers.
However, having played only two matches since October and having a high base price of ~2 crore probably went against Ishant. A very high base price for an Indian bowler is pretty rare, considering that no Indian pace bowler is present in the high brackets from ~1 crore to 2 crore. The high base price and lack of matches probably went against Ishant.
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Irfan Pathan too will be very disappointed. In the 2016 IPL, he played only one game for Rising Pune Supergiants. Following the end of the IPL, Irfan was plagued by injuries and a dip in form with both bat and ball. He impressed in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in which he picked five wickets in four games at 17.6 (economy rate of 6.28). However, with the bat, he managed just 32 runs in four games and this probably went against him, considering that he is an all-rounder. With a base price of ~50 lakh, Irfan could have been picked. However, a combination of injuries and loss of form in the domestic circuit probably influenced the teams and that is the reason he went unsold. MAHILPUR: BSF, Jalandhar, defeated Punjab Police, Jalandhar, 2-1 to lift the inter-club trophy on the concluding day of the 55th edition of the Principal Harbhajan Singh Memorial Football Tournament at Mahilpur on Tuesday.
Punjab Police took the lead (1-0) when Harvinder Singh scored a goal in the 72 minute. But in the last phase of the match, BSF scored an equalizer through Md. Asif (82nd min). As both the teams were tied at 1-1 till the stipulated time, the match was stretched to extra time.
In the second half of the extra time it was Vishal’s goal that led BSF to title victory (2-1). In the under-17 category, Football Academy Baddon defeated Football Academy Mahilpur 2-0 to lift the title. While in the college category final, Layalpur Khalsa College, Jalandhar, defeated SGGS Khalsa College, Mahilpur, 1-0. Results (Final):
U-17: FA Baddon (Amarpreet Singh -20th, Jaswinder Singh –39th) beat FA Mahilpur 2-0.
College category: Lyalpur Khalsa College, Jalandhar, (Manjit Singh -22nd) beat SGGS Khalsa College, Mahilpur, 1-0.
Club: BSF Jalandhar (Md. Asif – 82nd, Vishal – 115th) beat Punjab Police, Jalandhar, 2-1 (Harvinder Singh – 72nd).