{"id":4229,"date":"2025-12-16T19:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:26:07","slug":"ipl-2026-auction-cameron-green-becomes-most-expensive-overseas-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4229","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 auction: Cameron Green becomes most expensive overseas player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green, 26, has played for Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the IPL, scoring 707 runs at a strike-rate above 150 and taking 16 wickets in 29 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although he was sold in the capped batters category, Green said he will be available as an all-rounder and attributed the listing to a &#8220;stuff-up&#8221; by his management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green has struggled with back injuries throughout his career and missed the 2025 IPL following surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He returned to action as a specialist batter in June but is being used an all-rounder by Australia in the ongoing Ashes series against England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England opener Ben Duckett will make his IPL debut after being picked up by Delhi Capitals for 2 cr (\u00a3167,000).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was the only England player selected in the initial phase of the auction but four were picked in the accelerated rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All-rounder Liam Livingstone was purchased for 13 cr (\u00a31.085m) &#8211; the fifth-highest price of the auction &#8211; by Sunrisers Hyderabad, who will become the 32-year-old&#8217;s fourth IPL side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Batter Tom Banton and left-arm seamer Luke Wood will join Jos Buttler at Gujarat Titans, while batter Jordan Cox was picked up for the first time by holders Royal Challengers Bengaluru and will play alongside Phil Salt and Jacob Bethell. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sri Lanka seamer Matheesha Pathirana was the second-biggest earner of the day, signing for Kolkata Knight Riders for 18 cr (\u00a31.5m).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Uncapped Indian wicketkeeper-batter Kartik Sharma and all-rounder Prashant Veer were both signed by Chennai Super Kings for 14.2 cr (\u00a31.185m) in the next biggest deals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia&#8217;s Steve Smith, England&#8217;s Jamie Smith and Jonny Bairstow and New Zealand&#8217;s Devon Conway and Daryl Mitchell were among the players unsold. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c997j2y2ey0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green, 26, has played for Mumb&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229"}],"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=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}