Ishant Sharma:
India’s fast bowling spearhead, Ishant Sharma, was the most surprising name who failed to attract a bid today. Ishant, who featured for Rising Pune Super Giants last season, was put in the auction pool after the franchise didn’t retain him. Thus, he entered the auction as a marquee player with a base price of 2 crores. Unfortunately, no franchise was remotely interested in getting him as a part of their line – up as repeated call for a bid went unheard in the morning session as well in the post – lunch session. This eventually meant that he was the only ‘marquee’ to have gone unsold today.