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Allrounder Cameron Green is set to pocket up to nearly $3 million at the IPL auction overnight on Tuesday.
The 25-year-old is expected to be in hot demand when he is the third name to go under the hammer after New Zealand’s Devon Conway and Aussie young gun Jake Fraser-McGurk.
Green was listed as a batter but he said on the weekend that his status was supposed to be as an allrounder but his manager did not fill in the auction forms correctly.
“I’ll be good to bowl,” Green said on Sunday as he prepared for the third Ashes Test.
“I don’t know if my manager would like to hear this, but there was a stuff-up on his end.
“He didn’t mean to say batter. I think he accidentally selected the wrong box. It was pretty funny how it’s all played out, but it was actually a stuff-up on his end.”
Under new regulations, salaries for foreign players are capped at 18 crore rupees which roughs out at just under $3m so Green will not challenge Mitchell Starc’s $4m payday from last year’s auction.
Green, who went for $2.9m in the 2023 bidding bonanza, avergaed 50.22 while striking at over 160 for Mumbai Indians with Chennai and Kolkata reportedly keen on his services this time around.
He played for RCB last year, tallying 255 runs in 13 matches at 31.87 while also taking 10 wickets.
Jake Fraser-McGurk. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)
Starc will not be put up for auction as he has already been retained by his IPL franchise along with fellow Aussie stars Pat Cummins, Travis Head (Sunrisers Hyderabad), Marcus Stoinis, Mitch Owen, Xavier Bartlett (Punjab Kings), Mitchell Marsh (Lucknow SG), Josh Hazlewood, Tim David (RC Bengaluru), and Nathan Ellis (Chennai SK).
As well as Fraser-McGurk and Green, there are another 18 Aussies hoping to strike it rich in the auction: Spencer Johnson, Steve Smith, Sean Abbott, Ben Dwarshuis, Daniel Sams, Matthew Short, Josh Inglis, Ben McDermott, Cooper Connolly, Will Sutherland, Beau Webster, Riley Meredith, Jhye Richardson, Jason Behrendorff, Wes Agar, Billy Stanlake and Jack Edwards.
The IPL auction gets underway on Wednesday morning at 2am (AEDT).
