New Delhi: James Anderson, one of the world’s greatest fast bowlers, has retired from international cricket but now his dream was to play in the IPL. With this hope, this player had put his name in the IPL auction. Anderson hoped that some team would definitely buy him in the IPL auction, but this did not happen. Forget about buying Anderson, whose base price was 1.25 crores, his name was not even taken in the auction. All the 10 teams played a big game with James Anderson.
Actually, the IPL teams decided not to bring his name to the auction. This means no team wanted to buy him. Anderson’s name did not even come in the accelerated auction. Following the initial rounds of bidding, the 10 franchises submitted a list of 143 players for the accelerated round, which featured players from number 117 to 557, but Anderson’s name was not included in the list.
Anderson wanted to play IPL:
James Anderson is 42 years old and he was the oldest cricketer to put his name in the IPL auction this season. Anderson said that he wants to play IPL, his body is still fit and he can learn a lot from IPL. He came to the auction with this hope but he did not find any buyer.
James Anderson’s dream of playing in IPL is now crushed! No franchises were interested and he received no offers during the accelerated round, it’s hurt to heart that dream broken.#TATAIPLAuction #ipl2025auction#IPLAuction #JamesAnderson UnSold. #IPLAuctiononJioStar pic.twitter.com/wMxttXUPpF
— __Diipak_vsnv_24__ (@Diipak_vsnv24) November 25, 2024
James Anderson’s T20 career:
James Anderson has played very little T20 cricket in his career. This player played only 44 T20 matches in which he has 41 wickets to his name. Anderson played his last T20 match in 2014. It has been 10 years since Anderson played T20 cricket, due to which no team bet on him.
