Round 1
Renegades: Liam Livingstone
Strikers: Rashid Khan (matched Stars)
Stars: Trent Boult
Heat: Sam Billings (!)
Sixers: Chris Jordan
Scorchers: Pass
Thunder: David Willey
Hurricanes: Shadab Khan
Round 2
Renegades: Mujeeb ur Rahman
Stars: Joe Clarke
Heat: Colin Munro
Scorchers: Laurie Evans (matched Sixers)
Sixers: James Vince
Strikers: Colin de Grandhomme (!)
Thunder: Alex Hales
Hurricanes: Asif Ali
Round 3
Hurricanes: Faheem Ashraf
Thunder: Rilee Rossouw
Scorchers: Phil Salt
Strikers: Adam Hose
Sixers: Pass
Heat: Pass
Stars: Luke Wood
Renegades: Pass
"It's understood that Rashid Khan, Trent Boult, Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell are only available as platinum players, the rest can also be taken at gold if still available by then" (source: Cricinfo)
Was just having the same thought. Reckon this is going to spectacularly backfire on CA given the teams don't want players of even Russell, Pollard, Faf's calibre if they can't play the full season.
Can't imagine they'll be forking out the platinum rate for Dave Warner next season either.
Was just having the same thought. Reckon this is going to spectacularly backfire on CA given the teams don't want players of even Russell, Pollard, Faf's calibre if they can't play the full season.
yeah pretty much, massive financial investment to give a lot of the usual suspects a payrise. Goes against the whole point of this being introduced to add marketable stars to the pool of usual suspects.
if CH7 was ready to walk before this was introduced, I can't see them being any happier after tonight.
So does that mean DJ , DreRuss , Faf , Polly & Roy all missed out ? Only 7 platinums drafted , $ 340k+ not enough to entice them Down under for 2-3 weeks.