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Speaking to ANI, a GC member on conditions of anonymity said while the final approval will be given in the GC meeting, the league is expected to start on April 9 and a call on the venues will be taken next week.

“I was not expecting to get picked up at all. It wasn’t until I woke up to go to the bathroom that I saw a couple of messages saying congrats on the pick-up, and I thought, ‘That’s nice,’ and tried to go back to sleep as soon as possible," said Henriques.

CSK skipper MS Dhoni and batsman Ambati Rayudu have already reached Chennai and the other Tamil Nadu players will soon be joining the camp.

As if now it's all speculation whether it's Punjab or Hyderabad. We will soon have IPL GC in which we will decide what needs to be done and how the IPL needs to be conducted this year, as of now nothing has been decided yet.

Justifying his on-and-off IPL career, Steyn said this was one of the reasons he had not featured regularly in the world's biggest franchise-based T20 tournament

He supported an appeal made by Telangana minister and ruling TRS Working President K T Rama Rao to BCCI and IPL to include Hyderabad as one of the venues.

South African-born New Zealander Conway smashed a 59-ball 99 and powered his team to a 53-run win over Australia in the first of five T20 Internationals in Christchurch on Monday.

The 38-year-old fast bowler was banned for IPL spot-fixing before the Supreme Court had overturned the verdict.

Lesser-known players like Riley Meredith also became millionaires overnight fetching Rs 8 crore.

The IPL is likely to start in the second week of April and its knockout matches may stretch till early June

Wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant, all-rounder Axar Patel and pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar also returned to a fresh-looking squad.

Smith, who didn’t have a great season with the bat and also in leading the team, may struggle to get into the playing XI given the number of batsmen the last-year finalists have in their ranks.

And the RCB too obliged shelling out Rs 14.25 crore to buy him. However, this left the twitterati in splits. While Maxwell failed to perform to his potential in his IPL history, barring just once in 2014, he has always struggled.

Bhagath Varma is an off spinner from Hyderabad and represented India under-19 team against England in England in 2017 and Jammu-born fast bowler Yudhvir Singh Charak came to Hyderabad

They roped in spinners Krishnappa Gowtham for Rs 9.25 cr and Moeen Ali for Rs 7 cr. They have also roped in Test specialist Cheteshwar Pujara for his base price Rs 50 lakh.

Playing for Kings XI Punjab in the last season, Maxwell had a disappointing tournament scoring just 108 runs in 13 games. Maxwell has been released from the squad and he will go under hammer when the IPL auctions commences on February 18.

"Higher number of releases is leading to strong growth for originals and movies consumption on various OTT platforms," the report noted.

Labuschagne, who is also a leg-spinner, showed his all-rounder credentials in the ongoing Big Bash League in Australia representing Brisbane Heat.

India staged an incredible turnaround to clinch the four-match rubber 2-1 for one of their biggest wins of all time.

Nineteen Australian players took part in the last edition of the Indian Premier League, which was held in the UAE last November due to Covid-19 pandemic.