It was a day of steals at the IPL 2024 public sale at the Coca-Cola area in Dubai with a few of the gamers getting delicate bids and the World Cup 2023 hero Travis Head was one in every of them. Tipped to be one in every of the highest picks at the public sale, Travis Head was bought to the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) for INR 6.8 crore. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) went until INR 6.6 crore for the Australian opening batter earlier than SRH closed the bid at INR 6.8 crore.
Sunrisers Hyderabad had been absolutely in the temper for procuring as they bought Head, Wanindu Hasaranga at his base worth of INR 1.5 crore after which the Australian captain Pat Cummins in the most costly IPL deal of INR 20.5 crore of their three picks in the first two rounds.
Head final performed in the IPL in 2017 for the Royal Challengers Bangalore. He was in an out of the Australian crew earlier than making himself an all-format certainty after Aaron Finch retired and has now gotten possibilities and alternatives to showcase what he is bought throughout codecs.
Head joins a formidable abroad batting order for Sunrisers which comprises skipper Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen and Glenn Phillips. With Marco Jansen already there and Hasaranga and Cummins becoming a member of the forces, the 2016 champions have an awesome abroad roaster at their disposal and would look to add a couple of Indian choices to spherical up their squad.
Other gamers to get bids at the begin of the public sale had been Rovman Powell, Rachin Ravindra, Harry Brook, Shardul Thakur, Harshal Patel and Gerald Coetzee.
Sunrisers Hyderabad squad for IPL 2024 (thus far): Aiden Markram (c), Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Heinrich Klaasen, Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, (*6*)Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik, Anmolpreet Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Marco Jansen, Nitish Kuar Reddy, Upendra Yadav, Sanvir Singh, Mayank Markande, Travis Head, Wanindu Hasaranga, Pat Cummins
