The bowler who took 1500 wickets was insulted in the auction, know why his name was not called in the auction

IPL 2025: Bidding on players for 2 days in the Indian Premier League 2025 mega auction. Franchise teams spent a lot of money on players. A total of 182 players were sold in this auction. However, there were many big players who were not bought by any team in the mega auction. England's legendary fast bowler James Anderson was also included in this list.

Nobody bought James Anderson

England's legendary bowler James Anderson had given his name in the IPL 2025 auction. Everyone's eyes were on Anderson to see which team would buy him. However, fans just kept waiting on both the days of IPL 2025 mega auction. Anderson's name was not called in the auction. This clearly means that no team showed interest in Anderson. He had kept his base price at Rs 1.25 crore.

Anderson never played IPL

James Anderson had expressed his desire to play IPL for the first time. Let us tell you that he has never played IPL. Even he played the last T20 match of his career about 10 years ago. Anderson was playing only Test cricket for England for the last several years. He bid farewell to his international career by playing his last match against West Indies at Lord's in July 2024. Now he had expressed his desire to play in T20 leagues around the world, but no team included him in the IPL auction.

This has been the career of James Anderson

James Anderson has 704 wickets in his name in Test cricket and 269 wickets in ODI. He has 1126 wickets in his name in first round cricket. James Anderson has taken 358 wickets in List A. Whereas he has taken 41 wickets in T20. In this way he has more than 1500 wickets in his name.

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