{"id":24365,"date":"2026-02-23T11:27:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=24365"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:27:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:27:47","slug":"the-hundred-pakistan-batter-sahibzada-farhan-says-outcome-of-hundred-auction-out-of-our-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=24365","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred: Pakistan batter Sahibzada Farhan says outcome of Hundred auction &#8216;out of our hands&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pakistan players do not play in the Indian Premier League (IPL) amid ongoing political tensions between the two countries, and that trend is reflected at IPL-owned franchises around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MI London, Manchester Super Giants, Sunrisers Leeds and Southern Brave are all now part or fully-owned by IPL sides after the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) sold stakes in the teams last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trent Rockets, London Spirit, Birmingham Phoenix and Welsh Fire are the non IPL-owned teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Farhan is currently the leading run-scorer at the T20 World Cup and scored a century against Namibia in the group stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has registered for the auction at a base price of \u00a350,000 \u2013 half the amount of some players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very hopeful,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Because every player wants to play every league, play in the good leagues. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Hundred is one of the best leagues. So I hope for the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pakistan play England in the T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thirteen of their 15-strong squad registered for the auction with batter Fakhar Zaman and former captain Babar Azam, who is likely to be with the Test squad during the Hundred, the only absentees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Left-arm seamer Shaheen Afridi and fellow quick Haris Rauf, who have played in the Hundred previously, and all-rounder Saim Ayub are among those to have signed up with the highest base price of \u00a3100,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England captain Harry Brook said last week it would be &#8220;a shame&#8221; if Pakistan players were not involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ECB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c4g08zzmy8no\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">wrote to the eight franchises on Sunday<\/a> reminding them of their responsibilities around discrimination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Pakistan #batter #Sahibzada #Farhan #outcome #auction #hands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan players do not play i&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}