Covid making players life tough in the bio bubble. 2 Australian players Josh Hazelwood and Mitchell Marsh pulled out from this IPL season as they have been part of different bio secure bubble on and off for the last 1 year.
Josh Hazelwood is part of the CSK, guess now they might stick with the Chahar-Ngidi combination.
Jason Roy replacing Mitchell Marsh in SRH. This is fine back up for SRH as Jason Roy was in good form against India in T-20s.
I was expecting this.. LOL.. Hazlewood's contract is worth just $280,000. It looks like a pittance when we compare that to the contracts for other pacers such as Pat Cummins ($2,200,000) and Kyle Jamieson ($2,100,000). So he is not losing much if he pulls out of the tournament. IPL auctions surprise me sometimes. Take Mumbai Indians for example. They have Nathan Coulter-Nile who is contracted for $700,000 per year, and Adam Milne, who is priced at $480,000. But the first choice overseas pacer is Trent Boult, whose contract value is just $310,000.
That's what happen when 1 franchise release their players and other goes for the same players with the bidding war. Mumbai Indian has clever management, they identify the talent before anyone else and buy them at fair price. They even got Bumrah cheaply, close to 1 million and compare this with other bowlers like Unadkat. MI never released Boult-Bumrah-Malinga, you can imagine if somehow they release Boult-Bumrah then those 2 will surely attract another bidding war, same goes for poor Hazelwood.
Kyle Jamieson price is high so he needs to perform really well for the RCB otherwise he's not going to fetch another big contract next year.
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