Revealed: Why Shakib Al Hasan hasn't registered his name for IPL 2024 auction

Shakib Al Hasan has also pulled out of the PSL 2024 players draft.

Bangladesh star spinner Shakib Al Hasan has not registered his name for the IPL 2024 auction. The IPL auction will take place in Dubai’s Coca-Cola Arena on December 19, 2023.

A total of 333 players will go under the hammer for 77 available slots out of which 30 are overseas. Of those, 214 are Indian players and 119 are overseas, including two players from associate nations.  

The total purse available to spend is INR 262.95 Crore. Kolkata Knight Riders (12) have the highest slots to be filled while Gujarat Titans, who traded Hardik Pandya to Mumbai Indians, in an all-cash transaction, have the highest purse (INR 38.15 Crore) heading into the auction.

“My plan is to give all this time to the national team”- Shakib Al Hasan on pulling out of PSL and IPL 2024 auction

Shakib al Hasan of Bangladesh revealed on Monday that he is considering giving up franchise-based T20 cricket to devote more attention to national duty.

Shakib has not entered the Indian Premier League (IPL 2024) auction and also had instructed his manager to withdraw his name from the Pakistan Super League players’ draft, where he belongs in the platinum category.

“I did not give my name in IPL and so there a window will be opened and when my manager gave my name in PSL I told him to withdraw it and my name is not there in PSL so my plan is to give all this time to national team because I will sacrifice the franchise tournament that I used to play,” Shakib was quoted by Cricbuzz.

“I am playing in three formats and hope that I can continue that but no one knows about future and what is in store but till now I have the desire to play cricket for a long time,” he said.

Shakib, who is now nursing an injured finger that kept him out of the just ended two-match Test series against New Zealand at home, has also been forced to miss their next white-ball trip of New Zealand. Shakib stated that he hopes to return to competitive cricket with the 2024 Bangladesh Premier League, the country’s lone franchise-based T20 league, which will begin on January 19.

“I was hoping that I will be going to New Zealand for the ODI and T20 series as now the team is departing for the tour and I was planning in that way because I felt I will be ok by four weeks. But I have consulted a doctor two days back and he asked me to wait as I will need another two weeks and later start the rehabilitation.

It is taking more time than expected as it will need six weeks and the next option is that after doing the rehabilitation and gaining fitness I don’t see any other way before BPL and there is election and so I will be busy so I will return to competitive cricket through BPL and can play from the start of BPL by getting full fitness,” Shakib added.

Shakib will feature for the Rangpur Riders in the forthcoming edition of BPL.

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