Irfan Pathan
Irfan Pathan (Image Credit: Twitter)

Irfan Pathan, a former Indian cricketer, thinks Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) would make a big effort to get former Punjab Kings (PBKS) skipper Mayank Agarwal at the IPL 2023 auction.

The PBKS management fired Agarwal following his disappointing IPL 2022 campaign, in which he scored just 196 runs in 13 games. But Pathan emphasized how selfless the opener was in his lone season as captain, frequently moving lower in the lineup to make room for other top-order batters.

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Mayank Agarwal PBKS (IMAGE CREDITS: Twitter)
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Irfan Pathan discussed how Sunrisers Hyderabad will profit from the signing of Mayank Agarwal on the Star Sports program “Game Plan.” He stated:

“Since they also require a kind of aggressive opener, SRH will target Mayank Agarwal. They are currently without Kane Williamson, who served as their seasoned captain for many years and used to start the innings,” Irfan Pathan said.

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Mayank Agarwal
Mayank Agarwal. (Photo: IPL)

“Mayank Agarwal is the type of person who has led a team and plays pretty freely. He is also quite fearless and selfless. They may also be considering him as a future leader,” Irfan Pathan added.

Irfan Pathan thinks that PBKS and SRH would go all out for Adam Zampa:

The two teams with the largest budgets entering the IPL 2023 auction are the Sunrisers (INR 42.25 crore) and the Kings (INR 32.20 crore), and Pathan anticipates that they would intimidate other teams during bidding battles for top players. Australian leg-back Adam Zampa is one such player who the former all-rounder believes will be in demand.

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“When you don’t have a proper playing eleven, which Punjab and SRH don’t have, that means they have a large bank balance, which means they need to be very smart, they need to be aggressive in these auctions because they have the muscle power, and I think Adam Zampa, they will go after him from the start.”

It will be intriguing to see if Punjab and Hyderabad are successful in putting other teams’ IPL 2023 auctions on the blink.

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