Published 16:44 IST, January 27th 2021

SRH ask fans for their favourite picks at IPL 2021 auction, get hilarious responses

After BCCI confirmed the IPL 2021 auction date, the SRH franchise asked its fans for their favourite picks, only to get hilarious responses in return.

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Indian Premier League 2021 (IPL 2021) auction has been scheduled for February 18, as confirmed by Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday, January 27. All eight franchises, who recently revealed list of ir retentions, will be looking to boost ir line-ups with furr ditions at bidding event. Apparently, Sunrisers Hyderab (SRH) is one franchise that seems to be taking auction tips from ne or than its own fanbase.

IPL 2021 auction: BCCI confirms IPL auction date

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SRH seek vice from fans ahe of IPL 2021 auction

Immediately after anuncement of IPL auction date, SRH franchise took to its social media accounts to pose an interesting query for fans. y asked ir fans to mention a player who y want m to go after at IPL 2021 auction. However, y also ded a condition stating that those players should be mentioned without use of ir direct names.

Several SRH fans used this opportunity to leave hilarious responses in comments section. While some fans shared encoded messs for franchise, ors simply shared pictures of popular Bollywood celebrities who share ir names with cricketers. Quite a few fans also urged franchise to go after Kings XI Punjab’s outbound Glenn Maxwell, by describing him as someone who h a lacklustre IPL season last time only to regain back form later in Australian colours.

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Here is a look at some of hilarious responses by SRH fans to ir IPL 2021 auction vice.

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SRH players retained and released

SRH franchise released just five cricketers from its squ of previous edition of tournament. Sunrisers Hyderab released Billy Stanlake, Fabian Allen, Sanjay Yav, B. Sandeep and Y. Prithvi Raj. Meanwhile, y retained as many as 22 players from ir previous squ, including captain and star-attraction David Warner. T. Natarajan, who recently me his international debut in all formats in Australia, will also reprise his role in upcoming season.

Here is a look at all 22 players retained by SRH franchise:

David Warner (c), Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow, Wriddhiman Saha, Shreevats Goswami, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh, Rashid Khan, Vijay Shankar, Mohamm Nabi, Abhishek Sharma, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Abdul Sam, T. Natarajan, Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Basil Thampi, Shahbaz Neem, Siddharth Kaul and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

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16:44 IST, January 27th 2021