For those unaware, tomorrow is IPL auction, starting 1 PM IST. Coetzee, Starc, Cummins, Madhushanka will likely get high bids. Pat cummins should captain the team wherever he goes 

He has been retained that means he will play but not as captain and there are lot of rumors/speculations about this on social media but we don't know what is the real truth but as per the veterans this decision can't be made without discussing with Rohit.

@libert19, On the batting we may expect Head, Daryl Mitchell, Rachin will probably go for the highest bid and I expect this year we may see new record for costliest buy since the many teams have huge purse. Previous costliest sold player Sam Curran– Rs 18.50 Cr. – Punjab Kings (2023).

That's true, I mentioned about it in India cricket thread. There ought to be yes nod from rohit before making Hardik captain


History has shown, costly players usually don't play up to their cost, so hopefully bidders won't overdo it. I feel players also feel pressure due to high purchase, pressure to play good and in return they do worse.

Damn, true. Sam Curran, Benstokes, Yuvi, Pat cummins can be the best examples for this while contrastingly players bagged at the base price is becoming the future part of the teams and the best example is Rinku who is banging the doors for finisher spot in 2024 T20 WC.

I am excited to see the Auction tomorrow because few teams released a lot of their players and need to build from the scratch now.

Kenya has beaten Malawi and they will play against Uganda in the final. It was no surprise they won, but the match was very close. Kenya gave a target of 139 but after DLS it was required to score 44 runs in 5 overs for Malawi. Malawi came very close and fell 5 runs short.

Kenya vs Uganda will happen tomorrow. I believe Kenya will take it all. I hope Kenya wins the upcoming match and return to their old days of glory. They used to be a good team and used to play bilateral series against some of the good teams currently like Bangladesh. But now they have become a team which nobody knows about. They are making a return.

A lot of times they bring in players for a huge amount of money and the player also comes into the team with a lot of expectations. But in the end, he does not perform as well as he was supposed to. And that causes a lot of problems. Because most of the time the team is made around him. So it starts to be a big problem for the team.

I would actually like to see the teams that build from scratch. Because I do not want to see the same players play for the same team for a long period of time. Because what's the point of having a tournament like this then?

Here we go people. IPL 2024 auction time. Sam Curran's preposterous 18.5 cr bid will most probably be broken by someone being bought for 20+ cr and that someone could be Daryll Mitchell in my opinion.

Shahrukh Khan will probably get the highest bid for an uncapped player thanks to his finishing skills. Excited!

As we are having early media reports this time we are going to have new records for investment with few players are under radar to have historic amounts and for me Australians can break the records because currently they are at their best in all formats even this huge amount never pay back rightly many times IPL most expensive players fall like crap as we have Sam Curran who was completely failure and few more examples are available but IPL is all about money and personal likes so lets watch now in this season who is going to have huge amounts from rich Indians.
I am feeling not good about Rohit Sharma because this is not a good way to sidelined him Mumbai Indians officials needs to do something different for his long services for this franchise because without doubt he was one of the best in this team for long time.

That actually happens during mega auction, to most extent, here, franchises are only allowed to retain 4 players (this was case in 2022's mega auction, prior to it was 5), so team's have to build remaining squad from scratch unlike mini auctions where there is no limit to retained players, so teams remain more or less same.