Punjab Kings seemed to have made a blunder during the IPL auction picking up a player with name Shashank Singh by mistake.
The said player is 32 years old and is an all-rounder who plays for Chhattisgarh. He has already played 55 T20 matches and previously featured for SRH in the cash-rich league. However, he had gone unsold in IPL 2023 after being released by the franchise. Coming back to the incident, a minute after picking Shashank in their squad, PBKS owner Ness Wadia seemed to have asked the auctioneer Mallika Sagar to reverse the bid stating that they mistakenly bid on the player.
However, Sagar denied reversing saying that she had already brought down the hammer and sold the player to them. Even the auction rules prevented PBKS from putting Shashank Singh back into the auction as they had bid for him and the hammer had already come down which indicates that they purchased the player. (India TV)
Fantastic scenes here as the notoriously inept Punjab Kings manage to not only purchase a player they didn’t want, (Shashank Singh), they also admit to this in front of literally everyone. Singh we can guess is sat at home wondering whether to show up in March. #IPLAuction #pbks pic.twitter.com/PtLQv9t07H
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