{"id":22488,"date":"2025-12-16T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=671863"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:43:09","slug":"ipl-2026-auctions-rachin-ravindra-goes-unsold-at-base-price-of-rs-2-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-auctions-rachin-ravindra-goes-unsold-at-base-price-of-rs-2-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 Auctions: Rachin Ravindra goes unsold at base price of Rs 2 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand all-rounder <strong>Rachin Ravindra<\/strong> went <strong>unsold in the ongoing IPL 2026 mini-auction<\/strong>, with no franchise placing a bid for him at his <strong>base price of Rs 2 crore<\/strong>. Ravindra had been released by <strong>Chennai Super Kings (CSK)<\/strong> ahead of the auction following a dip in form during the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>Ravindra featured for CSK across the <strong>2024 and 2025 IPL seasons<\/strong>, primarily as a top-order batter. In <strong>IPL 2024<\/strong>, he played <strong>10 matches<\/strong>, scoring <strong>222 runs<\/strong> at an average of <strong>22.20<\/strong> and a strike rate of <strong>160.86<\/strong>, including <strong>two half-centuries<\/strong>. His aggressive approach at the top of the order was one of the talking points of CSK\u2019s campaign that season.<\/p>\n<p>However, his output declined in <strong>IPL 2025<\/strong>, where he managed <strong>191 runs in eight matches<\/strong> at an average of <strong>27.29<\/strong> and a strike rate of <strong>128.19<\/strong>, registering one half-century. Ravindra struggled to cement his place in the playing XI and was dropped for a few matches as CSK adjusted combinations.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Ravindra has played <strong>18 IPL matches<\/strong>, scoring <strong>413 runs<\/strong> at an average of <strong>24.29<\/strong> and a strike rate of <strong>143.10<\/strong>, with <strong>three half-centuries<\/strong> to his name. Despite being classified as an all-rounder, he did not pick up a wicket during his IPL stint.<\/p>\n<p>CSK had originally acquired Ravindra for <strong>Rs 1.8 crore<\/strong> ahead of the 2024 season and used their <strong>Right To Match (RTM)<\/strong> card to retain him for <strong>Rs 4 crore<\/strong> in the IPL 2025 auction. Following his release, Ravindra entered the <strong>IPL 2026 mini-auction<\/strong>, but franchises opted not to bid for him in the initial rounds.<\/p>\n<p>While he remains unsold for now, Ravindra could still return to the league later as an <strong>injury replacement<\/strong>, keeping his IPL prospects alive for the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand all-rounder Rachin Ravindra went unsold in the ongoing IPL 2026 mini-auction, with no franchise placing a bid for\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22488","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=22488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}