IPL Mini Auction 2023: Gujarat Titans bought Irish left-arm fast bowler Joshua Little for Rs 4.40 crore in the IPL mini auction. Joshua is the first cricketer from Ireland to Indian Premier League I have got the contract. Although he is not the first Irish player to participate in the IPL. Because Eoin Morgan was the first Irish player to go to England to play IPL. An interesting battle was witnessed between Lucknow Supergiants and Gujarat Titans to include Little in their team. But later Gujarat won.
Joshua got 4.40 crores
The base price of Joshua Little was Rs 50 lakh. Gujarat Titans started the bidding. After this Lucknow Supergiants gave him a tough fight. Both the franchises were eager to include Joshua in the team. The purpose of going after the passion of these two teams was their excellent bowling. In the same year, he took 11 wickets for Ireland in the T20 World. Which also included a hat-trick against New Zealand. LSG chased Joshua Little till 4.20 cr. But later Gujarat Titans bought him for Rs 4.40 crore.
Left CSK in 2 weeks
In IPL 2022, Joshua Little was the net bowler of Chennai Super Kings captained by MS Dhoni. But after two weeks he left CSK. During a conversation with Cricbuzz, he shared the bad experience of CSK. According to him, it was said on behalf of the team that if someone gets injured then you will be given a chance to play. But nothing like this happened to me. After this he left Chennai.
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