IPL 2018: I Had 37 Missed Calls after Switching on My Phone, says Mayank Markande

Apr 6, 2018 at 2:58 PM

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IPL 2018: I Had 37 Missed Calls after Switching on My Phone, says Mayank Markande

There is no doubt about the fact that the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been a breeding ground for young cricketers. The money generated have sometimes changed their life forever. However, Chris Lynn had a different opinion on the topic. After a sleepless night ahead of the auction day another Indian leg-spinner Mayank Markande.

Markande was in between an Under-23 game when Mumbai snapped him up for Rs 20 lakhs. Anti-corruption measures don’t allow a top-level cricketer to access their phones during match hours.

So after his pick, he was welcomed with a series of messages when he opened his phone later that evening.

“On match days, you are not allowed to use your phone at the ground. But when I finally switched it on in the evening, I had 37 missed calls and 300 messages,” the former India Under-19 spinner told the Mumbai Indians’ official website.

“I rang up a few friends and they told me that the Mumbai Indians had picked me. I didn’t believe them,” he added.

 

“Then, I received a call from Mr Rahul Sanghvi (Mumbai’s team manager). I was finally convinced. And I thanked him wholeheartedly,” He maintained.

“had performed well at the Mumbai Indians trials, but I never thought I would be picked at the auction,” h

“As a matter of fact, I was mentally prepared to work hard for another couple of years and do well in domestic cricket,” he said.

A relatively experienced campaigner in the IPL with four seasons under his belt, Chris Lynn was by no means more composed than Markande. The Aussie described the progress of the action as pretty ‘daunting’.

“I was sitting on the couch and I’d connected the laptop up to the TV, and the auction’s on and I think I was player number 30,” Lynn recalled on a Players’ Voice podcast.

“It’s pretty daunting. You’re seeing blokes going from three hundred thousand to a million bucks in the space of thirty seconds,” he remarked.

“I was thinking I was next, so I was padding up in the changeroom and listening to it on one of the coach’s phones… then all of a sudden ‘Chris Lynn’ comes out,” Lynn stated.

“I got a couple of bids… I think it went to $300,000 pretty quickly, stalled for a bit, then up to $700,000 stalled for a bit, and then it went gangbusters,” He asserted.

Lynn also spoke about his fresh outing ahead of the season 11 with Mayank Markande cherish an opportunity.

“My good mate (Royal Challengers Bangalore and Brisbane Heat coach) Dan Vettori stuck his paddle up a few times.

“I was nervous, but I didn’t want to try and make that a priority because I had a game to win that night… and then all of a sudden it was $1.86 (million).

“I was already padded up in the nets, [but] I couldn’t really focus on the ball coming down,”

“Obviously, it’s life-changing stuff, but for me, the priority was winning the game that night, so to try and manage the emotions at the time was quite challenging,” Lynn concluded.

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