{"id":22460,"date":"2025-12-13T14:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=670946"},"modified":"2025-12-13T14:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:17:17","slug":"ipl-2026-auctions-who-is-the-oldest-player-to-enter-the-mini-auctions-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-auctions-who-is-the-oldest-player-to-enter-the-mini-auctions-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 Auctions: Who is the oldest player to enter the mini-auctions? Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"165\" data-end=\"363\">Veteran all-rounder <strong data-start=\"185\" data-end=\"201\">Jalaj Saxena<\/strong> is the <strong data-start=\"209\" data-end=\"268\">oldest player to register for the IPL 2026 mini-auction<\/strong>. Born on <strong data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"299\">December 15, 1986<\/strong>, Saxena is <strong data-start=\"311\" data-end=\"327\">38 years old<\/strong>, turning <strong data-start=\"337\" data-end=\"362\">39 in just a few days<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"365\" data-end=\"809\">A domestic cricket giant, Saxena has dominated the Ranji Trophy for nearly two decades. He holds the <strong data-start=\"466\" data-end=\"521\">record for the most wickets in Ranji Trophy history<\/strong> and is the only cricketer to cross both <strong data-start=\"562\" data-end=\"592\">6,000 runs and 400 wickets<\/strong> in the tournament. Despite his exceptional performances, he never received an India call-up\u2014a point highlighted humorously by former selectors Salil Ankola and Chetan Sharma during a recent viral commentary exchange.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"811\" data-end=\"1083\">Saxena has represented <strong data-start=\"834\" data-end=\"852\">Mumbai Indians<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"857\" data-end=\"873\">Punjab Kings<\/strong> in previous IPL seasons but has remained uncapped internationally. For IPL 2026, he has entered the auction at a <strong data-start=\"987\" data-end=\"1015\">base price of Rs 40 lakh<\/strong>, hoping to bring his experience and all-round depth to a franchise.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1085\" data-end=\"1199\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">A story of longevity and quiet excellence, Jalaj Saxena stands as the IPL 2026 auction\u2019s most seasoned campaigner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran all-rounder Jalaj Saxena is the oldest player to register for the IPL 2026 mini-auction. Born on December 15, 1986,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}