42-Year Old Retired England Star Registers For IPL Mega Auction After Ben Stokes Pulls Out

wait is finally over as IPL governing council finally anunced dates for IPL Mega Auction in 2024. mega auction will take place on 24th and 25th of vember in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  

With IPL mega auction nearing, a total of 1574 players registered for TATA IPL 2025 Player Auction. However, as per reports star England all-rounder Ben Stokes has t registered for auction as he wants to focus on being fully fit for his duties as England's white ball captain. While Ben Stokes makes himself unavailable for auction, retired England star cricketer has registered himself for IPL auction. 

Retired England star registers himself for mega auction

As per reports, 42-year old retired English cricket legend James Anderson has registered himself for IPL 2025 Mega Auction. report comes after ESPNcricinfo suggested that England skipper Ben Stokes made himself unavailable for auction given his fitness issues. 

But according to same reports, Anderson who recently retired from international Test cricket back in August is looking to start his franchise career having registered himself for player auction. 

As per reports, Anderson has set himself a base price of Rs 1.25 Crore in IPL mega auction. Apart from James Anderson, Indian cricket stars in KL Rahul , Rishabh Pant , Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravichandran Ashwin , Mohammad Shami have all set ir base price INR 2 Crore for IPL auction. 

Top overseas players in Jos Buttler, Mitchell Starc, Glenn Maxwell among ors have also registered mselves at INR 2 Crore. 

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James Anderson IPL Career 

legendary English pacer James Anderson has never played in IPL and if he is picked at mega auction n at 42-years he debut in IPL. 

Interestingly, James Anderson hasn't played a T20 game for a decade with his last T20 match coming back in 2014. 

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In his career, Anderson has only played 44 T20 matches including 19 internationals. He's picked 41 wickets with a strike rate of 22.7 and ecomy of 8.47 in se 44 games. 

It will be interesting to see if any franchise takes gamble and picks him in IPL auction or t.