Indian-owned franchise Sunrisers Leeds on Thursday bid for Pakistan’s mystery spinner Abrar Ahmed. Sunrisers CEO Kavya Maran herself bought him for 1.90 lakh pounds (about Rs 2.34 crore). With this, Abrar became the first Pakistani player to join an Indian-owned franchise in The Hundred League starting from July 21. Due to strained relations between India and Pakistan, IPL franchises have not signed any Pakistani players since 2009. Last year, Chennai-based media company Sun Group first bought 49% stake in Northern Superchargers from ECB and the remaining 51% from Yorkshire County Club for about 100 million pounds. After this the name of the team was changed to Sunrisers Leeds. Sun Group also owns Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL and Sunrisers Eastern Cape in SA20, but there is no Pakistani player in these teams yet. See Sunrisers Leeds’ post… Ustan Tariq sold for Rs 1.72 crore The second Pakistani player to be sold in this auction was mystery spinner Usman Tariq, who was bought by Birmingham Phoenix for 1.40 lakh pounds (about Rs 1.72 crore). However, Pakistan fast bowler Haris Rauf and off-spin all-rounder Sam Ayub remained unsold. There was controversy over Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman. IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (IPL) had bought Bangladeshi fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman for Rs 9.20 crore in the mini auction of IPL 2026 in Abu Dhabi on 16 December 2025. After this, due to the killings of Hindus in Bangladesh, there was opposition in India. On this, on the request of BCCI, KKR has released Rahman. Angered by this, the Bangladeshi government had banned the telecast of IPL in their country. Not only this, Bangladesh had refused to play the T20 World Cup in India. In such a situation, Bangladesh was thrown out of the T20 World Cup by the ICC. Scotland was included in the T20 World Cup in place of Bangladesh. Pakistan had boycotted the match with India. The Pakistani government had boycotted the match with India in the T-20 World Cup. However, after the intervention of the Sri Lankan President, the Pakistani government gave approval for the match against India. In this match played on 15 February in Colombo, the Indian team won by a margin of 61 runs. Ishan Kishan had scored a fifty against Pakistan. —————————————- Also read this news related to cricket… Now IPL teams will not be able to share nets, BCCI has issued guidelines for practice sessions. BCCI has issued new guidelines regarding the practice sessions of IPL teams. According to this, no team will be able to practice on the net or pitch on which the other team has previously practiced. Each team will be provided with separate and new nets for practice. Read full news
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