IPL Auction 2018: 5 players with a surprising base price
IPL Auction 2018 is less than a week away and the owners and the decision makers will be keen to make their mark and pick the best possible side ahead of the 11th edition of the IPL. They have 578 players to choose from and given the recent track record of buys in the auction, don't be surprised if there are a few surprise picks.
578 players will go under the hammer and 36 of them have the maximum base price of INR 2 crore. Among the players that will go for big money, there have been some interesting moves made by certain players as they listed their base price. Some players have opted for a surprisingly high price while others have opted for a lot less than they probably deserve.
Let us take a look at 5 players with a surprising base price in the IPL Auction 2018.
Note: All the base prices are mentioned in Indian Rupees.
#1 Colin Munro - 50 lakhs
Colin Munro is currently the No.1 ranked T20I batsman in the world. No batsman has hit more T20I centuries than the Kiwi star and the 30-year-old still has a base price of just 50 lakhs, when he is likely to be one of the most sought-after players in the auction in Bengaluru.
A strike rate of almost 150 after 150 T20Is speaks volumes about the southpaw's ability to take the game away from the opposition. In the last 12 months, he has been in blistering form in T20s across various domestic leagues and he will undoubtedly be one of the most expensive foreign players.
And despite all of this, he has a base price of just 50 lakhs, well below the base price of the likes of Travis Head (150 lakhs) and Colin Ingram (200 lakhs).