Indian cricket staff spinner Yuzvendra Chahal scripted historical past by changing into the most costly spinner in IPL public sale historical past. Chahal was bought for a mammoth Rs 18 Crore to Punjab Kings within the IPL 2025 public sale in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Sunday. The bidding battle began with PBKS and Lucknow Tremendous Giants with Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Sunrisers Hyderabad additionally becoming a member of in. Nevertheless, PBKS emerged victorious as they had been in a position to purchase the best wicket-keeper within the historical past of the competitors.
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India senior pacer Mohammed Shami has been purchased by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 10 crore within the IPL 2025 Public sale right here on the Abadi Al Johar Area in Jeddah on Sunday.
Hyderabad, who earlier expressed curiosity in shopping for Rishabh Pant and Arshdeep Singh, lastly obtained the primary purchase of the day after buying the providers of Shami within the first choose of the second marquee set.
Shami, who was a part of the Gujarat Titans squad, missed the final season as a result of knee surgical procedure. He not too long ago made his return to aggressive cricket earlier this month for Bengal within the Ranji Trophy. He’s anticipated to hitch the Indian staff in Australia for the latter stage of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Earlier than the public sale, Hyderabad retained Pat Cummins, Abhishek Sharma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen and Travis Head.
Lucknow Tremendous Giants, then again, purchased South African batter David Miller for Rs 7.5 crore. After the big-ticket buy of Rishabh Pant for an unprecedented Rs 27 crore, Miller turned the second purchase of the day in Jeddah.
Lucknow retained Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan and Ayush Badoni forward of the public sale.
(With IANS inputs)
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