All Rounders –
Chamika Gunasekara (Sri Lanka) – Sold to Colombo Strikers for US$ 10,000
Sahan Arachchige (Sri Lanka) – Sold to Galle Marvels for US$ 20,000
Dhananjaya De Silva (Sri Lanka) – Sold to Jaffna Kings for US$ 50,000
Mohammad Nawaz (Pakistan) – Unsold
Fabian Allen (West Indies) – Sold to Jaffna Kings for US$ 32,000
Dwaine Pretorius (South Africa) – Sold to Galle Marvels for US$ 30,000
Janith Liyanage (Sri Lanka) – Sold to Galle Marvels for US$ 36,000
Round 1-
Rilee Roscoe Rossouw (South Africa) – Sold to Jaffna Kings for US$ 60,000
Martin James Guptill (New Zealand) – Unsold in the first round
Rassie Van Der Dussen (South Africa) – Unsold in the first round
Ibrahim Zadran (Afghanistan) – Retained by Dambulla
Pathum Nissanka (Sri Lanka) – Unsold in the first round
Dinesh Chandimal (Sri Lanka) – Sold to B-Love Kandy for US$ 40,000
Ashen Bandara (Sri Lanka) – Sold to B-Love Kandy for US$ 28,000
12.24 pm
The ‘Player Auction’ for the upcoming Lanka Premier League (LPL) 2024 cricket tournament commenced in Colombo today.
This is the second consecutive year that Sri Lanka’s topmost domestic T20 League is conducting a player auction.
Charu Sharma, who was part of the previous LPL player drafts, will be the auctioneer of the LPL Player Auction 2024, which will consist of 18 rounds.
Nearly 420 cricketers are to be presented for the ‘Player Auction’ out of which 154 are from Sri Lanka and the remaining 266 are overseas players.
The LPL will be played from July 1st to 21st, starting in Kandy, then in Dambulla, before heading to Colombo for the end of the tournament.
