L. R. Chethan struck gold as he was procured for a princely sum of ₹8.6 lakh by Kalyani Bengaluru Blasters within the Maharaja Trophy KSCA T20 public sale held on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium right here on Thursday.
The 24-year-old right-hand bat, who performed for Gulbarga Mystics final season, noticed his worth swell on the mini public sale from the ₹6.2 lakh he commanded in 2023. There have been additionally massive offers for seasoned cricketers Shreyas Gopal (₹7.60 lakh, Mangaluru Dragons) and Okay. Gowtham (₹7.4 lakh, Mysuru Warriors). Wicketkeeper-batter Luvnith Sisodia earned ₹7.20 lakh from Gulbarga.
Opening batter Mohammed Taha returned to defending champion Hubli Tigers for ₹6.60 lakh, a good-looking 4.1 lakh greater than his 2023 billing. The 30-year-old Taha was the participant of the match final 12 months, scoring 448 runs at a strike-rate of 173.64.
One other good performer in left-arm pacer Abhilash Shetty noticed an increase in valuation too, shifting to Mangaluru for ₹6.3 lakh as in opposition to the ₹1 lakh he earned 12 months in the past at Gulbarga.
A watch-popping ₹6.2 lakh was splurged by Bengaluru on left-arm speedster Lavish Kaushal, a registered Karnataka State Cricket Affiliation participant who was within the lowest Class-D within the public sale.
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Karnataka’s age-group cricketers, who gained the red-ball double of Cooch Behar Trophy (U-19) and Col. C.Okay. Nayudu Trophy (U-23), had been picked up for good quantities with Hardik Raj attracting ₹5.8 lakh from Shivamogga Lions and Macneil Hadley Noronha ₹5 lakh from Mangaluru.
Aneeshwar Gautam, 21, zoomed as much as ₹6.20 lakh (Hubli) from ₹2 lakh (Mangaluru), whereas 18-year-old Samit Dravid, son of Indian legend Rahul Dravid, was picked up by Mysuru for ₹0.5 lakh.
Oft-injured India pacer Prasidh Krishna’s worth depreciated from ₹7.4 lakh to ₹1 lakh. Senior cricketer R. Samarth, who scored 422 runs at a strike-rate of 141.61 in 2023 and has since moved to Uttarakhand, skipped the public sale.
The 2024 Maharaja Trophy will get underway in Bengaluru on August 15.
The groups (participant value in lakhs):
Gulbarga Mystics: Pravin Dubey (6.80), Luvnith Sisodia (7.20), B.R. Sharath (1), Aaditya Nair (0.55), Monish Reddy (1.8), Sharan Goud (0.5), Yashovardhan Parantap (2.20), Nathan D’Mello Joachim (0.6), Faizan Riaz (0.25), Ritesh Bhatkal (0.25), Wahid Faizan Khan (0.25), Abhishek Prabhakar (0.25), Prithvi Shekhawat (0.25), Shimon Luiz (0.5); Retained: Devdutt Padikkal (13), V. Vyshak (8.8), R. Smaran (3.15), Okay.V. Aneesh (1.1).
Hubli Tigers: Okay.C. Cariappa (4.20), Mohammed Taha (6.60), Thippa Reddy (3.40), Okay.P. Karthikeya (1.2), L.R. Kumar (0.5), Aadarsh Prajwal (0.5), Kruthik Krishna (0.5), Aneeshwar Gautam (6.20), Madhav Prakash Bajaj (0.25), Shreesha S. Achar (2.3), Daman Deep Singh (0.25), Mitrakant Yadav (0.35), Nishchith Pai (0.5), Rishi Bopanna (0.5); Retained: Manish Pandey (10.6), Okay.L. Shrijith (2.1), Vidhwath Kaverappa (6.7), L. Manvanth Kumar (0.6).
Shivamogga Lions: T. Pradeep (1), Hardik Raj (5.80), Dhruv Prabhakar (0.5), Anand Doddamani (1.90), Rajvir Wadhwa (2.20), D. Avinash (5.40), Dheeraj Mohan (0.25), Bharath Dhuri (0.25), Aadithya Vishwa Karma (0.25), Aditya Mani (1), Okay. Rohit (0.5), Rohan Naveen (0.25), H.S. Sharath (1), B.A. Mohith (0.7); Retained: Abhinav Manohar (15), Nihal Ullal (2.1), V. Koushik (5.9), Shivaraj (1.1).
Mysuru Warriors: J. Suchith (4.8), Okay. Gowtham (7.4), Vidyadhar Patil (6.4), M. Venkatesh (3.4), Harshil Dharmani (0.5), Goutham Mishra (2), Dhanush Gowda (0.5), Samit Dravid (0.5), Deepak Devadiga (0.65), Sumit Kumar (0.25), Smayan Srivastava (0.25), E.J. Jasper (0.5), Prasidh Krishna (1), Mohammed Sarfaraz Ashraf (1); Retained: Karun Nair (6.8), C.A. Karthik (4.2), Manoj Bhandage (9), S.U. Karthik (0.5).
Kalyani Bengaluru Blasters: Anirudha Joshi (3), M.G. Naveen (2.3), Prateek Jain (1), L.R. Chethan (8.6), M. Kranthi Kumar (4.4), Santokh Singh (0.6), Aditya Goyal (1.1), S. Rakshith (0.75), T.N. Varun Rao (0.65), Niranjan Naik (0.27), Lavish Kaushal (6.20), Varun Kumar (0.25), Shikhar Shetty (0.5), Bheem Rao Navale (0.25); Retained: Mayank Agarwal (14), Shubhang Hegde (4.3), Mohsin Khan (0.5).
Mangaluru Dragons: Shreyas Gopal (7.6), Dheeraj J. Gowda (1), M.B. Darshan (1), Macneil Hadley Noronha (5), Tushar Singh (1.8), Okay.S. Lankesh (4), Samarth Nagaraj (3), S.S. Sankalp (0.7), Abhilash Shetty (6.3), Nischith Rao (0.5), Lochan S. Gowda (0.5), Pranav Bhatia (0.5), Sanjay Ashwin (0.29), Sagar Solanki (0.25); Retained: Okay.V. Siddharth (4.4), Nikin Jose (7), Rohan Patil (3.7), Paras Gurbax Arya (0.5).