Kolkata: Six players have been included to the shortlist of cricketers who will go under the hammer at the IPL 2020 auction here on Thursday. R Vinay Kumar, Ashoke Dinda, Matthew Wade, Sanjay Yadav, Robin Bist, and Jake Weatherald are the players who made to the final auction pool along with other 332 cricketers.
In IPL 2019 auction, Vinay Kumar didn't find any buyer. Expressing his disappointment over his IPL snub Kumar said, "Before the 2018 IPL began, I was KKR's go-to bowler in the nets as well as all the practice games. But once the season started, I got only two matches where I was asked to bowl the first and the 20th over. It's a very challenging ask to bowl an over each at the start and at the death."
"So if people made up their minds after watching me in just two matches, then I don't know what to say. I am still hopeful of a call-up because it's a long tournament and some niggles here and there to some player might open the door for me," he added.
Meanwhile, South African batsman Jake Weatherald is expected to fetch a big deal. He has an outstanding batting record. In 33 matches, he scored 828 runs at an impressive strike-rate of 127.77 including one hundred.
