The auctioneer acknowledged that she may need missed Delhi Capitals’ bid as a result of quick tempo of the public sale.
The second day of the IPL 2025 mega public sale was marked by a major controversy. The auctioneer Mallika Sagar missed a bid from Delhi Capitals (DC) and mistakenly bought younger Swastik Chikara to Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). RCB started the bidding on the base value of Rs 30 lakh and secured the participant after the gavel got here down, with no different franchise trying . However, DC’s head coach, Hemang Badani, later claimed that his group had raised the paddle through the bidding course of.
The auctioneer acknowledged that she may need missed Delhi Capitals’ bid as a result of quick tempo of the public sale. However, regardless of DC elevating a priority, Chikara was nonetheless bought to RCB as a result of, in response to public sale guidelines, as soon as the gavel falls, the sale is closing and can’t be reversed.
This oversight left Delhi Capitals’ co-owner, Kiran Grandhi indignant and annoyed.“It cost us an opportunity so as to add a younger participant to our squad. This was a major oversight,’ Gandhi stated throughout a post-auction interplay.
Swastik Chikara was a part of the Delhi Capitals squad in IPL 2024 however didn’t get a possibility to play that season. The younger expertise gained important consideration for his record-breaking efficiency within the UP T20 League, the place he scored 499 runs and gained each the MVP and Super Striker of the Season awards whereas representing Meerut Mavericks.
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