26 Pakistanis Register for IPL Auction
Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 8:22 pm
MUMBAI : 26 Pakistanis Register for IPL Auction, Young batting sensation Umar Akmal and paceman Mohammad Aamir are among 26 Pakistan cricketers to register for the Indian Premier League player auction later this month.
Pakistan’s players last month missed the deadline to secure the necessary clearances to participate in the IPL, meaning they must go through the auction process to compete in the third edition of the lucrative Indian domestic Twenty20 competition.
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It now depends on whether the individual IPL franchises have slots available for more overseas recruits.
In all, 97 players from around the world have registered for the Jan. 19 IPL auction, and if franchises have expressed interest in any of those players, they will be informed on Tuesday.
Last year, over 100 players registered but only 50 were put on auction for the 17 available overseas places.
Four Pakistanis Misbah-ul-Haq, Umar Gul, Kamran Akmal and Sohail Tanvir had their IPL contracts suspended and have already been replaced by other overseas players by their respective franchises.
Bangalore Royal Challengers secured South Africa’s Roelof van der Merwe in place of Misbah. South African fast bowler Charl Langeveldt has replaced Gul at Kolkata Knight Riders, while the Rajhastan Royals brought in Johan Botha in place of Akmal and Tanvir.
The list of Pakistani players also included a number of cricketers who have now severed their ties with the unauthorized Indian Cricket League. Players like Azhar Mahmood, Mohammad Sami, Rana Naved, Imran Farhat, Imran Nazir and Saqlain Mushtaq all competed in the ICL.
Mohammad Aamir, Shahid Afridi, Ahmed Shahzad, Saeed Ajmal, Umar Akmal, Fawad Alam, Yasir Arafat, Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt, Imran Farhat, Mohammad Hafeez, Yasir Hameed, Faisal Iqbal, Asim Kamal, Danish Kaneria, Mohammad Khalil, Abdur Rauf, Khalid Latif, Azhar Mahmood, Shoaib Malik, Khurram Manzoor, Saqlain Mushtaq, Rana Naved, Imran Nazir, Abdul Razzaq and Mohammad Sami are among the Pakistani players registered for IPL auction.
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