Warner, Starc cop million dollar snubs

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Retired prima David Warner’s fearfulness week continued aft helium was sent backmost to the Indian Premier League auction, not retained by the Delhi Capitals days aft his “offer” to travel retired of status for the Test squad was swatted distant connected each level.

He wasn’t the lone Australian chopped adrift, however, with Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Starc, who returned to the IPL successful 2024 connected a mega woody worthy successful excess of $4 cardinal and was keen to instrumentality successful 2025, headed to the auction arsenic good aft a wide clean-out by franchises.

The 14 Australians released backmost to the excavation had contracts worthy adjacent to a combined $14 million, that database includes Cameron Green, who besides had a $3.1 cardinal woody with Royal Challengers Bengaluru, but has been sidelined by a backmost wounded which volition unit him retired for up to six months.

Only Pat Cummins and Travis Head, who play astatine Sunrisers Hyderabad, were retained for the adjacent season, with Cummins acceptable to skipper the squad again. They volition gain $3.66 cardinal and $1.22 cardinal respectively successful 2025.

Warner had a fearfulness IPL successful 2024, battling a manus wounded and was replaced by young dyanamo Jake Fraser-McGurk who lit up the tournament.

But helium excessively is headed to the auction aft the Delhi Capitals besides axed manager Ricky Ponting pursuing a disappointing tourney erstwhile they failed to marque the finals.

Despite helping Kolkata Knight Riders scope the last successful his archetypal IPL successful implicit a decade, Starc, who aft taking 7 wickets successful his Sheffield Shield outing astatine the MCG past week said he’s “heard nothing” from the franchise but wanted to return, was not retained.

Australian rotation prima Adam Zampa, who has regularly battled for IPL crippled time, was besides fto go.

AUSTRALIANS RELEASED BY THEIR IPL FRANCHISES

Mitchell Starc (Kolkata Knight Riders, $4.42m)

Cameron Green (Royal Challengers Bengaluru, $3.15m)

Glenn Maxwell (Royal Challengers Bengaluru, $2m)

Spencer Johnson (Gujarat Titans, $1.78m)

Marcus Stoinis (Lucknow Super Giants, $1.7m)

Tim David (Mumbai Indians, $1.53m)

Mitch Marsh (Delhi Capitals, $1.2m)

David Warner (Delhi Capitals, $1.16m)

Jhye Richardson (Delhi Capitals, $892,000)

Matthew Wade (Gujarat Titans, $446,000)