With Chennai releasing Dwayne Bravo and the latter calling it time on his IPL career, they were in desperate need of an overseas allrounder ahead of the much-anticipated 2023 edition. However, they had to pay INR 16.5 crore for the Three Lions allrounder and fans claimed that the player was a bit overpriced. Stokes scored a century for the Pune franchise way back in the Indian T20 League in 2017.
Nicholas Pooran was a part of the Hyderabad franchise in the 2022 edition and the team released him ahead of the mini-auction to free up their purse. Lucknow franchise drafted him into the team after paying INR 16 crore at the mini-auction recently. But since Pooran has not set the IPL ablaze till now the trend might continue.
Mumbai's team management went after the young Australian all-rounder at the ITL 2023 mini-auction and roped him in after paying INR 17.5 crore. But given the fact that Green is fairly inexperienced in the T20I circuit, he might not click for the Mumbai Franchise as per expectations.