{"id":22498,"date":"2025-12-16T15:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=671905"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:24:32","slug":"ipl-2026-auctions-jacob-duffy-sold-to-royal-challengers-bengaluru-for-rs-2-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-auctions-jacob-duffy-sold-to-royal-challengers-bengaluru-for-rs-2-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 Auctions: Jacob Duffy sold to Royal Challengers Bengaluru for Rs 2 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand fast bowler <strong>Jacob Duffy<\/strong> was signed by <strong>Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)<\/strong> for <strong>Rs 2 crore<\/strong> at the ongoing <strong>IPL 2026 mini-auction in Abu Dhabi<\/strong>, marking his <strong>first-ever IPL contract<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Duffy entered the auction with a <strong>base price of Rs 2 crore<\/strong> and was picked up by RCB during the <strong>accelerated rounds for capped fast bowlers<\/strong>. He had gone unsold in previous auctions but finally found an IPL franchise this time around.<\/p>\n<h3>First IPL deal, no appearances yet<\/h3>\n<p>Despite being a regular in New Zealand\u2019s white-ball setup, Duffy is yet to make an <strong>IPL appearance<\/strong>. As a result, he has <strong>no IPL statistics<\/strong> to his name so far, making IPL 2026 a potential debut season for the right-arm pacer.<\/p>\n<h3>Strong international credentials<\/h3>\n<p>Duffy arrives with an impressive international reputation. He is currently <strong>ranked second in the ICC T20I bowling rankings<\/strong> and has enjoyed a prolific run in the shortest format. In <strong>38 T20I matches<\/strong>, he has picked up <strong>53 wickets<\/strong> at an outstanding <strong>average of 17.06<\/strong>, underlining his effectiveness with the new ball and at the death.<\/p>\n<h3>What Duffy brings to RCB<\/h3>\n<p>By securing Duffy for <strong>Rs 2 crore<\/strong>, RCB add a <strong>high-quality international fast bowler<\/strong> with proven T20 credentials to their squad. His signing strengthens RCB\u2019s pace-bowling options as they build depth ahead of the IPL 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>With this move, <strong>Jacob Duffy will be aiming to make his IPL debut<\/strong> and translate his international form onto the league\u2019s biggest stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand fast bowler Jacob Duffy was signed by Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) for Rs 2 crore at the ongoing\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22498","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\/22498","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=22498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}