{"id":9345,"date":"2023-12-20T09:39:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/punjab-kings-deny-they-bought-wrong-player-in-ipl-auction-say-they-always-wanted-shashank-singh-cricket-news\/20\/12\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T09:39:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:39:48","slug":"punjab-kings-deny-they-bought-wrong-player-in-ipl-auction-say-they-always-wanted-shashank-singh-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/punjab-kings-deny-they-bought-wrong-player-in-ipl-auction-say-they-always-wanted-shashank-singh-cricket-news\/20\/12\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Kings deny they bought wrong player in IPL auction, say they always wanted Shashank Singh | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>IPL side Punjab Kings have confirmed that they intended to sign Shashank Singh in Tuesday&#8217;s auction after footage appeared to suggest they had bought the wrong player.<\/p>\n<p>When Shashank&#8217;s name came up, Kings co-owner Preity Zinta raised the paddle and with no other side coming in for the 32-year-old he was sold for 20 lakh (around \u00a319,000).<\/p>\n<p>As the auction progressed in Dubai, Kings &#8211; coached by former England head coach Trevor Bayliss &#8211; seemed to flag the error to auctioneer Mallika Sagar.<\/p>\n<p>Sagar said, &#8220;it was a wrong name? You don&#8217;t want the player?&#8221; before telling Kings that the bid had been accepted and could not be reversed.<\/p>\n<p>A statement released by Kings on social media platform X on Wednesday read: &#8220;Punjab Kings would like to clarify that Shashank Singh was always on our target list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The confusion was due to two players of the same name being on the list. We are delighted to have him onboard and see him contribute to our success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Punjab have failed to make the IPL play-offs for the last nine seasons since winning the competition for the first and only time in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>They signed England&#8217;s Chris Woakes for \u00a3400,000 on Tuesday with the all-rounder joining international team-mates Sam Curran, Jonny Bairstow and Liam Livingstone at the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 IPL is set to take place across March, April and May.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/cricket\/news\/12040\/13034851\/punjab-kings-deny-they-bought-wrong-player-in-ipl-auction-say-they-always-wanted-shashank-singh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPL side Punjab Kings have confirmed that they intended to sign Shashank Singh in Tuesday&rsquo;s auction after footage appeared to suggest they<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/punjab-kings-deny-they-bought-wrong-player-in-ipl-auction-say-they-always-wanted-shashank-singh-cricket-news\/20\/12\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[3076,3633,571,972,3634,3632,33,338,3631,3635,3636,2028,271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9347,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9345\/revisions\/9347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}