Carlos Braithwaite, Chris Lynn among top international players for LPL Player Auction

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Batsman Chris Lynn leads a long list of Australian players who will be up for auction for the upcoming Lanka Premier League (LPL) season, with West Indian T20 World Cup winner Carlos Braithwaite in the mix for a second season with the league.

The LPL will move away from the Player Draft system it used for the first three seasons of the tournament, and will conduct a Player Auction, where each franchise will have a US 500,000 dollar purse to fill out their squads.

Each franchise has already signed two local players and two overseas players and will use Wednesday’s auction to purchase upto 20 players, with teams allowed to have a squad of between 20 to 24 players for the tournament.

Lynn is joined by the likes of Ben McDermott, Jason Behrendorff, Mitchell Swepson and Andrew Tye in a list of more than Australian players who have registered for the draft.

Braithwaite, who played for the Kandy Falcons last season, headlines the West Indians in the draft, which includes Johnson Charles and Evin Lewis, and a smattering of internationally capped players.

As has been the case over the last three seasons, there is a heavy Pakistani presence in the player auction list, with players who have previously featured in the league hoping to be picked this season.

Suresh Raina remains the sole Indian in the auction list, that also includes players from South Africa, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ireland and New Zealand.

A total of 360 player have been included in the draft, divided into 51 sets.

"After the players in the first 21 sets are auctioned, the players from the remaining 30 sets, and those who were not bought, will be considered for the accelerated draft round. Each franchise will nominate 10 players each – amongst those unsold and yet to be auctioned – and those 50 players will be up for auction in the accelerated draft, with the rest discarded," LPL Tournament Director Samantha Dodanwela told the Daily Mirror.

Comments - 4

roni Monday, 12 June 2023 07:05 PM

Javad Miandad should be included as today is his birthday. Bravo Mathew Hayden Justin Langer Ricky Ponting. Retired New Zealand players must be considered as they play a huge part in the IPL as coaching staff and may be good enough to play here.

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Tissa Fernando Tuesday, 13 June 2023 02:16 AM

Utter waste of hard earned dollars.

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cricket fan Tuesday, 13 June 2023 06:53 AM

The Indian Premier League (IPL) affiliated to the Board of Control for Cricket In India is not only a money making enterprise but also a cunning ploy to destroy other cricket boards from around the world of their talented cricketers by offering them big money to play in the IPL while cricketers from India are totally banned from playing for other franchises like the BBL, LPL,, BPL, PPL etc. It is to make sure that they don't risk injury and are wrapped in cotton wool exclusively meant to play for their country the indian cricket team. Through sheer greed many cricketers from overseas have taken early retirement crippling the cricket boards of their best talent but still continue to play in the IPL to make a fast buck

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Tissa Fernando Wednesday, 14 June 2023 04:36 AM

The individual crickers would disagree. Indian IPL is the place where good performing crickers could earn some real money. Banning indian players from other tournaments is a typical 'indian thing' .

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