Mitchell Starc witnessed a historic return to the Indian Premier League as he bagged a staggering quantity throughout the IPL public sale 2024 on Tuesday, December 19. Kolkata Knight Riders recorded the biggest-ever bid of INR 24.75 crore to signal an Australian pacer and stole all of the limelight.
Earlier within the public sale, Sunrisers Hyderabad shattered information to signal Australian captain Pat Cummins for INR 20.50 crore, breaking the earlier all-time record of Punjab Kings’s signing of Sam Curran throughout the 2023 public sale. But Starc’s title emerged at the most costly IPL public sale listing with KKR beating Gujarat Titans to stun everybody.
After studying a record bid for him, Mitchell Starc talked about his pleasure to signal for the Kolkata Knight Riders forward of the 2024 season. Starc mentioned that he’s thrilled to hitch KKR and is trying ahead to play at Eden Gardens subsequent season.
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After beating Gujarat Titans in a heated bidding warfare, Kolkata Knight Riders CEO Venky Mysore revealed the rationale behind the group’s record-breaking bid for Starc.
“Somebody told me just now before Starc’s bid, they put up something like a historic bid. Very quickly history changed. IPL has changed and the salary cap has changed (laughs). Everyone comes with their own plans. This is my 14th auction – you know you win some and lose some. Starc was a proffered player from that skillset standpoint. We were not successful in some bids, so that favoured us. We were just happy to have him in our side,” Venky Mysore mentioned.
Starc, 33, performed two IPL seasons (2014 & 2015) with Royal Challengers Bangalore. Notably, KKR had signed Starc throughout the IPL 2018 public sale however the bowlers missed out on a complete match resulting from an harm.Â
