Cricket followers are eagerly anticipating the extremely aggressive second season of the Uttar Pradesh T20 League, set to start on August 25. The event guarantees exhilarating matches, all scheduled to happen on the famend Ekana Stadium in Lucknow.
Groups and format
Six groups will vie for the championship on this electrifying T20 occasion: Kanpur Superstars, Kashi Rudras, Gorakhpur Lions, Lucknow Falcons, Noida Tremendous Kings, and Meerut Mavericks. The league section will observe a double round-robin format, with the highest 4 groups advancing to the playoffs.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar turns into the best paid participant
The mega public sale for the second season of the UP T20 League was held on July 28, the place quite a few cricketers had been up for grabs. A complete of 171 gamers from UP had been shortlisted for the public sale, and out of them, 91 had been efficiently acquired by the franchises by way of open bidding. Collectively, the six groups will spend roughly INR 750 lakh on these gamers.
Veteran bowler and swing maestro Bhuvneshwar Kumar emerged because the highest-priced participant. A fierce bidding warfare ensued between Kashi Rudra, Meerut Mavericks, and Noida Kings, but it surely was the Lucknow Falcons who secured Bhuvneshwar with the best bid of INR 30.25 lakhs, surpassing his base value of seven lakhs.
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Prime bids
Proper-arm fast-medium pacer Shivam Mavi, with a base value of INR 7 lakh, grew to become the second-highest-paid participant after being picked up by Kashi Rudras for INR 20.50 lakh. Younger wicketkeeper-batter Uvais Ahmed, who impressed for Meerut Mavericks within the inaugural season, was surprisingly re-acquired by Meerut Mavericks for INR 20 lakh, far exceeding his base value of INR 2.50 lakh.
Gamers offered for greater than INR 10 lakh:
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar: INR 30.25 Lakh: Lucknow Falcons
- Shivam Mavi: INR 20.50 Lakh: Kashi Rudra
- Uwais Khan: INR 20.00 Lakh: Meerut Mavericks
- Mohsin Khan: INR 19.25 Lakh: Kanpur Tremendous Stars
- Shakib Siddiqui: INR 18.50 Lakh: Kanpur Tremendous Stars
- Shaurya Singh: INR 16.75 Lakh: Kanpur Tremendous Stars
- Siddharth Yadav: INR 15.50 Lakh: Gorakhpur Lions
- Rituraj Sharma: INR 15.25 Lakh: Meerut Mavericks
- Bobby Yadav: INR 15.25 Lakh: Noida Kings
- Kritagya Singh: INR 13.75 Lakh: Lucknow Falcons
- Shivam Bansal: INR 11.50 Lakh: Kashi Rudra
- Jasmer Dhankad: INR 11 Lakh: Kashi Rudra
- Prince Yadav: INR 10.50 Lakh: Kashi Rudra
Full checklist of gamers offered and their groups:
Lucknow Falcons
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar (30.25 lakhs)
- Kritagya Kumar Singh (13.25 lakhs)
- Sameer Choudhary
- Samarth Singh (each 5.40 lakhs)
- Vipraj Nigam
- Kishan Kumar
- Ankur Chauhan (all 3.50 lakhs)
- Prashant Choudhary (3.40 lakhs)
- Kamil Khan (2.60 lakhs)
- Parth Palawat
- Kirti Vardhan
- Shubhangi Raj
- Akshu Bajwa
- Parv Singh (all 2.40 lakhs)
Gorakhpur Lions
- Siddharth Yadav (15.50 lakh)
- Yash Dayal (7.00 lakh)
- Saurabh Kumar
- Ankit Chaudhary
- Yash Pradhan (each 6.60 lakh)
- Vaibhav Chaudhary (6.40 lakh)
- Akshdeep Nath (5.20 lakh)
- Ankit Rajput
- Aryan Jurel (each Rs 5.00 lakh)
- Abdul Rehman (4.00 lakh)
- Hardeep Singh (3.70 lakh)
- Rohit Dwivedi (3.50 lakh)
- Ansh Dwivedi (3.00 lakh)
- Vineet Dubey
- Kritagya Singh (each Rs 2.50 lakh)
Kashi Rudra
- Shivam Mavi (20.50 lakhs)
- Shivam Bansal (11.50 lakhs)
- Jasmer Dhankad (11.00 lakhs)
- Prince Yadav (10.50 lakhs)
- Yashovardhan Singh (5.80 lakhs)
- Almas Shauk (5.60 lakhs)
- Arn Baliyan (3.50 lakhs)
- Vansh (3.10 lakhs)
- Sunil Kumar (2.70 lakhs)
- Harsh Payal
- Ajay Singh
- Ghanshyam
- Manish Singh
- Karan Choudhary
- Chavez (all 2.50 lakhs)
Kanpur Tremendous Stars
- Mohsin (19.25 lakh)
- Shoaib Siddiqui (18.50 lakh)
- Shaurya Singh (16.75 lakh)
- Adarsh Singh (6.20 lakh)
- Aaqib Khan (5.00 lakh)
- Shubham Mishra (4.50 lakh)
- Nadeem (4.10 lakh)
- Aashiyan Ali
- Rishabh Rajput (each 3.70 lakh)
- Ankur Malik (3.30 lakh)
- Inzamam Hussain
- Osho Mohan
- Kuldeep Kumar
- Mukesh
- Asif Ali
- Sudhanshu (all 2.50 lakh)
Meerut Mavericks
- Uvesh Ahmed (20.00 lakh)
- Rituraj (15.25 lakh)
- Divyansh (7.80 lakh)
- Vijay Kumar
- Yash Garg (7.00 lakh)
- Jamshed Alam (3.80 lakh)
- Yogendra Dollaya (3.10 lakh)
- Deepanshu (2.60 lakh)
- Akshay Sain
- Shubhankar Shukla
- Rajat Sanserwal
- Yuvraj Yadav
- Divyansh Rajput
- Zeeshan Ansari
- Shiven Malhotra (all Rs 2.50 lakh)
Noida Kings
- Bobby Yadav (15.25 lakhs)
- Mohd. Sharim (7.80 lakhs)
- Kavya Tewatia
- Piyush Chawla (7.00 lakhs)
- Mohd. Aman (6.60 lakhs)
- Naman Tiwari (6.20 lakhs)
- Shanshu Saini (5.60 lakhs)
- Kunal Tyagi (5.20 lakhs)
- Kartikey Yadav
- Ajay Kumar
- Vishal Pandey (5.20 lakhs)
- Rahul Rajpal (5.00 lakhs)
- Manav Sindhu (3.5 lakhs)
- Rahul Raj
- Shivam Saraswat (2.50 lakhs)
