Australian batter Travis Head was signed by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs. 6.8 crore at the IPL 2024 auction in Dubai on Tuesday. There was a bidding war between Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad.
SRH started the bidding for Head, who was the Player of the Match in the World Cup semis and finals. CSK joined in shortly after. After an intense back and forth, SRH signed the Aussie power-hitter.
About Head’s signing, SRH head coach Daniel Vettori said: “It is sort of tough to talk about what happened last season, but we were pretty adamant about getting in left-handed batsmen. With Markram, Klaasen, and Glenn Phillips in the squad, and with Brook there in the middle, I felt there was similarity between the four of them. So we just wanted to get some options. Everyone knows how well he has been playing for an extended period of time now. So we are grateful to get him at that price. We expected him to go for more.”
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Teams were willing to splurge on the Aussie after his impressive outing in the ODI World Cup earlier this year which included a 120-ball 137 in the final against India. Head scored 329 runs in six innings in the tournament at 54.83.
Head went unsold during last year’s auction where he was listed at a similar base price of Rs. 2 crore. He has played for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2016 and 2017.
The opening batter averages 29.15 for Australia in T20Is in 23 matches.
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