UP T20 League Auction 2024: Uttar Pradesh Premier Cricket League is starting from 25th August. The matches of this tournament will be played at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium. Before this, a player auction was organized at Centrum Hotel located in Sushant Golf City. In this auction, Team India’s fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar was sold for the highest price. Bhuvneshwar Kumar was added to the Lucknow team at a price of Rs 35 lakh. Apart from this, Shivam Mavi got a good price, but Indian cricket team’s leg spinner Piyush Chawla was sold at his base price of Rs 7 lakh.
Piyush Chawla was bought by the Noida team. Sameer Rizvi, who was a part of Chennai Super Kings in IPL, did not get the expected price. Apart from these legendary players, more than 100 players were bought in the auction. After this, Rajeev Shukla, the head of Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association and Vice President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, put forth his point. He said that for the first time we will use technologies like DRS and Hawk Eye. Every match will be telecasted live and digitally. Also, the matches of this tournament will be played only in Lucknow.
There will be no tournament matches at Kanpur’s Green Park. In this regard, Rajiv Shukla said that since a test match will be played between India and Bangladesh there, efforts are being made to keep the ground in better condition. Talking about the teams in this tournament, apart from Kanpur Superstars, Gorakhpur Lines, Kashi Rudra, Noida King, Meerut Mavericks and Lucknow Falcons will play. It is worth noting that Bhuvneshwar Kumar was the most expensive player in this auction. Apart from him, Shivam Mahavir, Siddharth Yadav, Rituraj Sharma, Yash Dayal, Jaisalmer Dhankar, Kartikeya Kumar Singh and Bobby Yadav got good prices.
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