4 Odia cricketers in IPl auction list
Bhubaneswar: Four Odisha cricketers are in the Indian Premier league (IPl) auction list to be held at Bangalore on February 12 and 13. Nataraj Behera, Biplab Samantary, Basant Mohanty and Paresh Patel are the four OCA cricketer are enlisted for the auction. Batsman Natraj,Paresh, and bowler Basanta are having a base price of Rs 10 lakhs and all-rounder Biplab is having a base price of Rs 20 lakhs for the auction.
The final list has been trimmed to 514 from the original 895 names. There are 219 capped players in addition to 295 uncapped players. There are 30 players listed at the maximum base price of Rs 2 crore (US $320,00 approximately) which includes 11 Indians. Australia fast bowler James Pattinson, who was in the original list of players with a base price of Rs 2 crore, is not there in the updated list. This will also be the first time the auction will be carried out in Indian rupees. The players have been split into various categories according to their specialistation, batsman, fast bowler, spinner, all-rounder and wicketkeeper.