{"id":22897,"date":"2025-12-16T18:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=672078"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:13:50","slug":"ipl-2026-mini-auction-jason-holder-sold-to-gujarat-titans-for-rs-7-crore-after-gt-csk-bidding-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-mini-auction-jason-holder-sold-to-gujarat-titans-for-rs-7-crore-after-gt-csk-bidding-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 mini-auction: Jason Holder sold to Gujarat Titans for Rs 7 crore after GT-CSK bidding battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Indies pace-bowling all-rounder <strong>Jason Holder<\/strong> was sold to <strong>Gujarat Titans<\/strong> for <strong>Rs 7 crore<\/strong> at the <strong>IPL 2026 mini-auction<\/strong>, following a competitive bidding battle involving <strong>Chennai Super Kings and GT<\/strong>. Holder had entered the auction with a <strong>base price of Rs 2 crore<\/strong>, but strong interest from franchises pushed his price sharply higher.<\/p>\n<p>Holder is a proven IPL campaigner and brings valuable experience with both bat and ball. Across his IPL career so far, the all-rounder has played <strong>46 matches<\/strong>, scoring <strong>259 runs at an average of 12.33<\/strong>, while picking up <strong>53 wickets<\/strong> at a bowling average of <strong>27.57<\/strong>, with best figures of <strong>4\/52<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The tall Caribbean all-rounder has represented multiple franchises over the years. His IPL journey includes stints with <strong>Chennai Super Kings (2013)<\/strong>, <strong>Sunrisers Hyderabad (2014, 2020\u201321)<\/strong>, <strong>Kolkata Knight Riders (2016)<\/strong>, <strong>Lucknow Super Giants (2022)<\/strong> and <strong>Rajasthan Royals (2023)<\/strong>. His most productive phase came with Sunrisers Hyderabad during the 2020 and 2021 seasons, where he made a strong impact as a replacement player.<\/p>\n<p>Holder has previously commanded big money at the auction table, fetching <strong>Rs 8.75 crore from Lucknow Super Giants in 2022<\/strong> and <strong>Rs 5.75 crore from Rajasthan Royals in 2023<\/strong>. Despite being in solid T20 international form, he was released by Rajasthan Royals ahead of the 2024 season and went <strong>unsold in both the 2024 and 2025 auctions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Gujarat Titans\u2019 decision to invest Rs 7 crore in Holder underlines their intent to strengthen the all-rounder department with an experienced international option ahead of IPL 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Indies pace-bowling all-rounder Jason Holder was sold to Gujarat Titans for Rs 7 crore at the IPL 2026 mini-auction,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":43077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22897","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\/22897","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=22897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}