EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DELHI THE HINDU 18 SPORT FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Rahul named KKR breaks the bank for Cummins with ₹15.50 crore bid KXIP captain Four of the five­most expensive signings are pace bowlers; Chawla is the priciest Indian star PRESS TRUST OF INDIA NEW DELHI IPL AUCTION India opener K.L. Rahul was on Thursday named KXIP Amol Karhadkar captain for IPL 2020. Wasim KOLKATA Jaffer was appointed batting As expected, pacers ruled coach, Sunil Joshi as bowling the roost as the eight franchi­ coach and Jonty Rhodes as sees splurged a combined fielding coach. sum of ₹140.30 crore on 62 “We are happy to appoint players who were sold dur­ Rahul as our captain for the ing the 13th Player auction of upcoming season. He has the Indian Premier League been through a lot in the last on Thursday. year or so and has come Bucking the trend of the back strongly,” said KXIP co­ big­hitters stealing the show owner Ness Wadia. at previous auctions, four of Shreyas Iyer was retained the five most expensive sign­ skipper of Delhi Capitals. ing were pace bowlers. While Australia’s Pat Cum­ mins attracted a historic bid of ₹15.50 crore from Kolkata Young India’s shining stars Knight Riders (KKR) in a five­ way battle — the highest look at the uncapped the Vijay Hazare Trophy. List A games and 11 T20s. amount ever paid for an AIndians who struck it Kartik Tyagi (Rajasthan Virat Singh (Sunrisers overseas cricketer and the big on Thursday. Royals, Price: ₹1.30 Hyderabad, Price: ₹1.90 second­highest across IPL Yashasvi Jaiswal crores): The Uttar crores): Unlike his more auctions — Chris Morris, the (Rajasthan Royals, Pradesh fast bowler has well­known namesake, this South African pace­bowling Price: ₹2.4 crore): The played one first­class game Virat bats left­handed. He all­rounder, joined him in the Mumbai left­hander left his and five List A games. He has already played 25 First three­member league of hometown in Uttar has featured regularly for Class matches for players with nine­digit pay Pradesh to move to the India under­19 team Jharkhand. In the T20 packets after a successful bid Mumbai to pursue his and is also part of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, of ₹10 crore by Royal Challen­ cricketing ambitions. As a World Cup squad. he scored 343 runs in 10 gers Bangalore (RCB). young boy, he endured Priyam Garg (Sunrisers games with three fifties at Separating the duo in the Busy day: The team owners and coaches met the media during breaks to explain their strategy. * RAJEEV BHATT several hardships, Hyderabad, Price: ₹1.90 the strike rate of 142. list of the highest expensive including selling paani­ crores): Priyam Garg will Ravi Bishnoi (Kings XI signings for the day was joined Royal Challengers we focussed on pacemen WHAT THEY SAID puri, to make a living while be captaining India at the Punjab, Price: ₹2 Cummins’ compatriot Glenn Bangalore, with the South and middle­order folks,” he played cricket. At 17, he Under­19 World Cup in crore): The leg­spinner Maxwell, the first big major African legend being picked Kumble said. became the youngest to hit South Africa. The right­ from Rajasthan is also part signing of the day, with Kings up for his base price towards e got a few steals at We have seen one of the a List A double­century, handed batsman from UP of the under­19 World Cup XI Punjab bagging him for the fag end of the auction Tambe’s feat Wbase price. Very happy best captains in Indian crick­ when he scored 203 in 154 already has the experience squad. He has played six ₹10.75 crore. that lasted well over five Besides the pacers and some about it. et (Dhoni) being a ’keeper balls against Jharkhand in of 12 First Class games, 19 T20s, taking six wickets. Pacers Sheldon Cottrell hours. promising young Indian bat­ Akash Ambani, MI owner and a batsman, so I don’t see (KXIP, ₹8.50 crore) and Nath­ Chennai Super Kings ad­ smen, including five India We have a fairly set over­ a problem. an Coulter­Nile (MI, ₹8 crore) ded England’s seam­bowling Under­19 squad members, seas roster. We didn’t need a Anil Kumble, from West Indies and Austra­ all­rounder Sam Curran the spin duo of Piyush Chaw­ lot of overseas players. So­ KXIP head coach lia respectively rounded up (₹5.50 core) and Australian la and Varun Chakravarthy meone like Mitch Marsh, we Aaron Finch brings a lot of the top­five. wizard Josh Hazlewood (₹2 also surprised many on the needed him there. experience to the group. Not crore) to its squad. England’s day, as did leggie Pravin Five local Indian boys who as much as second captain as Unadkat stays with RR Chris Jordan (₹3 crore) Tambe, who at 48 became are all good young players much as he is about helping Besides these big signings, joined the RCB ranks. the oldest signing for IPL, we want to give an opportun­ us out. more than a dozen other pac­ Anil Kumble, the newly­ beating Australia’s Brad ity to. He is super experienced. ers joined the roster of appointed Kings XI Punjab Hogg, who was 44 when he Trevor Bayliss, Mike Hesson, teams. Rajasthan Royals re­ head coach, said the onus on was in the KKR ranks in 2015. SRH head coach RCB team director tained Jaydev Unadkat with pacers was expected. ”It’s At the end of the auction, Our strategy was to bring Dinesh Karthik is definite­ an effective price correction pretty obvious that bowlers Delhi Capitals owner Parth in a death bowler. Pat Cum­ ly our captain. Morgan will — ₹3 crore as compared to are critical in T20s. Our gaps Jindal announced that the mins or Woakes. Pat went be a perfect lieutenant for ₹8.5 crore last time — while were evident. We had to fill team has retained Shreyas above our budget. We’re Karthik. Yashasvi Jaiswal. Virat Singh. Priyam Garg. Kane Richardson (₹4 crore) fast bowler slots. The choice Iyer as its captain for the happy with Woakes. Brendon McCullum, * FILE PHOTO: VIJAY BATE. * FILE PHOTO * FILE PHOTO: K. MURALI KUMAR and Dale Steyn (₹2 crore) and money we had to spend forthcoming season. Parth Jindal, DC owner KKR head coach Look forward to CSK stint: Chawla Coach Fleming stressed on the leggie’s rapport with Dhoni Amol Karhadkar KOLKATA Piyush Chawla feels the pres­ sure of being in the auction pool. On each of the four previous occasions when he was part of the Indian Pre­ mier League (IPL) auction pool — full auctions in 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2018 — he pre­ ferred to be away from the television. Thursday was no different. While his family was glued to the television in the afternoon, the leg­spinner opted to play a game of snooker at a club in Morada­ bad, his hometown. The mo­ ment he received a call from Pleasant surprise: Piyush Chawla said he was extremely home, the veteran leg­spin­ delighted when he heard the price and, more importantly, ner was relieved. the team. * FILE PHOTO: K.R. DEEPAK ‘Delighted’ head coach, also stressed on come in more than handy. “First, it was a sense of relief Chawla’s — who was a mem­ Just trying to add some bases when they told me I have got ber of India’s triumphant to what is a pretty good bids. And when I heard the campaigns in the 2007 puzzle.” price and more importantly World T20 and the 2011 Chawla is no stranger to the team, I was extremely World Cup — rapport with Chennai, having been a reg­ delighted,” Chawla told The Dhoni. ular for India Cements in the Hindu a day before he re­ TNCA League. joins Gujarat for its Ranji More than handy With 150 IPL wickets, the Trophy campaign. “We rate him very highly. leggie hopes to make the “I am really looking for­ The captain has a very good most of his latest opportuni­ ward to playing for Chennai relationship with him. Ob­ ty. “I love playing in Chennai Super Kings (CSK). It’s a biously, he is a different type and I hope I can contribute great team with Mahi bhai of bowler from Karn Shar­ to the rich legacy of CSK.” (Mahendra Singh Dhoni), ar­ ma, but we are happy to Having emerged as the guably the greatest captain have him,” Fleming said. most expensive buy among in the world. Just couldn’t “We have a well­balanced Indians, it will be interesting have asked for more.” squad. The home ground is to see if Chawla can repose Stephen Fleming, the CSK spin dominant, so he will the faith shown in him. Uthappa excited about Royals move M.R. PRAVEEN CHANDRAN especially with Steve Smith. Thiruvananthapuram “I had played with him be­ Robin Uthappa, picked up by fore and I am looking for­ Rajasthan Royals for ₹3 crore ward to sharing the dugout in the IPL Auction, says he is with Sanju. I played six sea­ excited at reuniting with sons for Kolkata. It has been Steve Smith. The Aussie and an exciting journey for me. Uthappa have been together The people in Kolkata loved at Pune Supergiants. me and I am thankful to The former India batsmen them,” he said. said he was also looking for­ Uthappa said Rajasthan ward to sharing the dugout Royals was a good team with with Kerala teammate Sanju world class players.