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Rajasthan Royals are backing left-hand batter Devdutt Padikkal. He has been retained by the side that is led by head coach Kumar Sangakkara. He was bought for INR 7.75 crore (a shade over 1 million USD approx) before the last IPL.
Padikkal has been in impressive touch in domestic cricket recently. As Karnataka opener he smacked a 62-ball 124 (unbeaten) against Maharashtra last month in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He also finished the Maharaja T20 tournament with unbeaten scores of 96 and 56 in the qualifier and final.
Interestingly, we still don't have word on the rest of his Karnataka top-order team-mates from that Maharashtra match: Agarwal (Kings), Manish Pandey (Lucknow Super Giants) and Abhinav Manohar (Gujarat Titans).
In IPL 2022, both his strike rate (122.87) and average (22.11) were his lowest in the three seasons he's had at the IPL, however, he was shuffled around the batting order, opening sometimes and batting as low as No. 4 on a few occasions.
Padikkal had played two T20Is for India in 2021, and being only 22, one good season of IPL might help him claim a spot in the national side's top order, especially if India decide to move on from at least one of their top three.
You'd expect Royals to also retain Jos Buttler and Sanju Samson, so their top order seems fairly set in stone. No news yet on the other young left-hand Indian batter in their squad Yashasvi Jaiswal, who was one of their pre-auction retentions last season.
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Padikkal has been in impressive touch in domestic cricket recently. As Karnataka opener he smacked a 62-ball 124 (unbeaten) against Maharashtra last month in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He also finished the Maharaja T20 tournament with unbeaten scores of 96 and 56 in the qualifier and final.
Interestingly, we still don't have word on the rest of his Karnataka top-order team-mates from that Maharashtra match: Agarwal (Kings), Manish Pandey (Lucknow Super Giants) and Abhinav Manohar (Gujarat Titans).
In IPL 2022, both his strike rate (122.87) and average (22.11) were his lowest in the three seasons he's had at the IPL, however, he was shuffled around the batting order, opening sometimes and batting as low as No. 4 on a few occasions.
Padikkal had played two T20Is for India in 2021, and being only 22, one good season of IPL might help him claim a spot in the national side's top order, especially if India decide to move on from at least one of their top three.
You'd expect Royals to also retain Jos Buttler and Sanju Samson, so their top order seems fairly set in stone. No news yet on the other young left-hand Indian batter in their squad Yashasvi Jaiswal, who was one of their pre-auction retentions last season.
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Lucknow Super Giants is set to release Ankit Rajpoot and Shahbaz Nadeem. There are also doubts cast over the impressive left-arm seamer Mohsin Khan who has been on the injury trail ever since the last season.
The latest buzz is that Punjab Kings could part ways with Mayank Agarwal who led the side last season, alongside Odean Smith and Shahrukh Khan.
According to the latest buzz, Sunrisers Hyderabad is expected to release Nicholas Pooran
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The latest buzz is that Punjab Kings could part ways with Mayank Agarwal who led the side last season, alongside Odean Smith and Shahrukh Khan.
According to the latest buzz, Sunrisers Hyderabad is expected to release Nicholas Pooran
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Green had impressed on the tour of India with two quick fifties opening the batting. However, he had an average outing in the T20Is against West Indies and England at home before the T20 World Cup.
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That will be brutal for them... Why would they release a potential captain?
Just so that they can hand over captaincy to Bhuvi
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Pooran is better suited to KKR as middle order wkt keeper batsman but at Max 2-3cr
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MS Dhoni will retire after IPL 2023. He might work with a specialized set of Indian players. (Reported by Telegraph).
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Why change a winning combination? That's what Hardik Pandya and Ashish Nehra are thinking. We're hearing that their first XI is basically retained, barring the transferred Ferguson and Gurbaz.
The only major player released by them, ESPNcricinfo has learned, is England opener Jason Roy. Roy has suffered a season-long slump at the Hundred and was then ignored for a T20 World Cup spot with England, where the likes of Phil Salt and Hales were picked, the latter a late call up after Bairstow's injury. Last season Roy was picked up for INR 2 crore (his base price) but later opted out of the tournament.
Royal Challengers Bangalore, who reached the play-offs for the third successive year in 2022, are expected to retain the majority of their squad. . ESPNcricinfo understands they will release Sherfane Rutherford and Jason Behrendorff (who has been traded to Mumbai Indians) but are expected to retain their other six overseas players (Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, Wanindu Hasaranga, Josh Hazlewood, Finn Allen and David Willey) and will also keep hold of most of their domestic players.
Having earlier learned that Devdutt Padikkal was retained by Royals, news now in that South Africa batter Rassie van der Dussen and New Zealand batting allrounder Daryl Mitchell have been released by the team from the pink city.
They have a plethora of allrounders to choose from. Maybe they end up keeping all, you never know, but the first one confirmed by Lucknow Super Giants, ESPNcricinfo has learned, is Australia allrounder Marcus Stoinis.
With a price tag of INR 9.20 crore (USD 1.25million approx.) Stoinis has always been one Australia player with many teams looking to grab him.
The only major player released by them, ESPNcricinfo has learned, is England opener Jason Roy. Roy has suffered a season-long slump at the Hundred and was then ignored for a T20 World Cup spot with England, where the likes of Phil Salt and Hales were picked, the latter a late call up after Bairstow's injury. Last season Roy was picked up for INR 2 crore (his base price) but later opted out of the tournament.
Royal Challengers Bangalore, who reached the play-offs for the third successive year in 2022, are expected to retain the majority of their squad. . ESPNcricinfo understands they will release Sherfane Rutherford and Jason Behrendorff (who has been traded to Mumbai Indians) but are expected to retain their other six overseas players (Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, Wanindu Hasaranga, Josh Hazlewood, Finn Allen and David Willey) and will also keep hold of most of their domestic players.
Having earlier learned that Devdutt Padikkal was retained by Royals, news now in that South Africa batter Rassie van der Dussen and New Zealand batting allrounder Daryl Mitchell have been released by the team from the pink city.
They have a plethora of allrounders to choose from. Maybe they end up keeping all, you never know, but the first one confirmed by Lucknow Super Giants, ESPNcricinfo has learned, is Australia allrounder Marcus Stoinis.
With a price tag of INR 9.20 crore (USD 1.25million approx.) Stoinis has always been one Australia player with many teams looking to grab him.
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