Piyush Chawla, Siddharth Kaul among 13 Indians to register for SA20 auction

Thirteen Indian players, including Piyush Chawla, Siddharth Kaul and Ankit Rajpoot, have registered for the SA20 auction ahead of the fourth season. They are among 784 players who have signed up for the September 9 event. As mandated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), all the Indian entrants are either retired or have relinquished their claims to play for India or in the IPL.

Mahesh Ahir (Gujarat), Sarul Kanwar (Punjab), Anureet Singh Kathuria (Delhi), Nikhil Jaga (Rajasthan), Mohamed Faidh (state not mentioned), KS Naveen (Tamil Nadu), Ansari Marouf (state not mentioned), Imran Khan (UPCA), Venkatesh Galipelly (state not mentioned), and Atul Yadav (UPCA) apart from Chawla (UPCA, India), Kaul (Punjab) and Rajpoot are the Indians who are part of the massive register which is certain to be pruned ahead of the auction.

All the Indian players have a base price of 200,000 Rand, except Piyush Chawla, whose reserve price is 1,000,000 Rand. Imran Khan has been listed with a base value of 500,000 Rand. The six franchises collectively have a purse of USD 7.4 million to spend on 84 available slots at the Johannesburg auction. SA20 had earlier announced that, for Season 4, teams will be allowed one Wildcard player - either an overseas or South African cricketer - whose salary will fall outside the salary cap.

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