With a base price of Rs 1.50 crore, India’s all-rounder Washington Sundar was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 8.75 crore.
Sundar, who played for RCB, saw the Bangalore franchise along with Delhi Capitals and Gujarat Titans spark off a bidding war for his services. Hyderabad and Lucknow joined the bidding as the number increased above the Rs 8 crore mark.
The off-spinner, who is a good batter as well, was an important part of the RCB set-up. Before RCB, he had played for Rising Pune Super Giant in 2017.
He’s played a total of 42 games in the IPL and picked 27 wickets while he’s also scored 217 runs in 26 innings.
Sundar was part of the Indian team that had a fairytale tour of Australia in 2020/21 when they won a second consecutive Test series, fighting the hosts against all odds, including injuries. He’s played 31 T20s for India and picked 25 wickets.
The bowling all-rounder will be keen to impress in the SRH colours, especially with a T20 World Cup coming up later in the year.
Having been unsold in 2017, he joined the now defunct Rising Pune Supergiant (2017) as a replacement for the injured R Ashwin. By the end of the tournament, he was the talk of town, picking 8 wickets from 11 matches. More than the wickets, it was his ability to contain the runs that caught everyone's attention. A year later he, he moved to the RCB team under Virat Kohli’s captaincy when he was bought at the auction.
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