In a historic moment in IPL history, Kolkata Knight Riders shattered all records to sign the star Australian pacer Mitchell Starc for a whooping price of INR 24.75 crore in a player auction in Dubai on Tuesday.
Australia's left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc has created history in auction going for a massive amount of INR 24.75 crore. He is the highest paid player in the history of Indian Premier League (IPL) now and broke Cummins' record within a couple of hours.
IPL auction 2024: Mitchell Starc became the most expensive in the history of IPL within hours after Pat Cummins became the highest-paid player in the tournament's history.
Before the event proper on December 19, a mock auction was conducted on Jio Cinema where certain cricket experts represented IPL teams and selected the players they would like to get in their side. Mitchell Starc was the most expensive player in the mock auction.
The clock has started ticking for probably the biggest mini IPL auction in the recent few years with some of the biggest names in the pool to get picked on December 19 in Dubai. Among big names, seven of Australia's World Cup stars have registered themselves in the top bracket of INR 2 crore.
The Indian Premier League 2024 will have a lot of star attraction as it will lead to the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024, slated to be played in the USA and the West Indies.
Mitchell Starc hasn't been at his absolute best in this World Cup but the man stepped up in the knockout game against South Africa both with bat and ball. He first picked 3/34 and then played a vital hand with the bat scoring an unbeaten 16 in the 213-run chase.
Batting first, South Africa lost four wickets on just 24 runs but the star batter David Miller single-handedly helped South Africa post a challenging total against Australia in the second semi-final match of the ICC World Cup 2023 at Kolkata's Eden Gardens.
Indian pacer Mohammed Shami continued his impressive run in the ongoing ICC Men's Cricket World Cup as he notched up another four-fer in the tournament against New Zealand in the semi-finals. Shami, who has now 20 wickets to his name in the tournament, achieved a massive feat on Wednesday in Mumbai.
Australia will be up against a formidable South African side in the second semifinal of the ongoing World Cup at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday, November 16. The Proteas hold a psychological advantage over the Aussies as they had defeated them in the round-robin stage.
Trent Boult, the left-arm pacer, has taken 48 wickets in just 25 ODI innings in the ODI World Cup history. Boult has taken 9 wickets in the 2023 edition and needs only two more scalps to become the first New Zealand bowler to reach 50 wickets in tournament history.
Pakistan seemed to have found themselves in their comfort zone bowling first against a weak opposition in Bangladesh as Shaheen Afridi gave the Men in Green a terrific start in the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 match in Kolkata on Tuesday, October 31.
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Australia continued their resurgence in the ongoing ICC Men's Cricket World Cup after losses in the first two games and their win on Friday, October 20 against Pakistan saw them jump up five places to number 4. While David Warner was the star of the show, Mitchell Starc continued to achieve feats.
Australia are desperate to get a win under their belt as they are languishing at the bottom of the points table with a net run rate of -1.846. They lost their opening fixture against the Men in Blue at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
Mitchell Starc is one of the most feared new ball bowlers going around in world cricket at the moment. He is coming into Australia's World Cup campaign on the back of an injury. Just like the previous two World Cup editions in 2015 and 2019, the Aussies will rely heavily on Starc for early wickets.
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Big update regarding Australia captain's injury, will play 3-match ODI series against India, Cummins told in the press conference that he is fit and will play, Cummins suffered this injury on the first day of the last match of the Ashes series.
"A few different players will get a chance but ideally we'd like to structure up pretty closely to how we'll play in the World Cup," Cummins said.
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