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Lucknow, Ahead of the IPL 2024 auction, Super Giants
traded all-arounder Romario Shepherd of the West Indies to the Mumbai Indians.
In his lone IPL 2023 match for the Super Giants,
Shepherd was removed for a duck in Lucknow against Sunrisers Hyderabad after
failing to toss a single over.
The deadline for the ten IPL franchises to submit the
list of players they are keeping and releasing was initially set for November
15, but it has reportedly been moved to November 26, one week after the World
Cup final in Ahmedabad.
Dubai will host the IPL player auction on December 19.
The auction will take place in another country for the first time.
A well-known name in the T20 franchise scene is
Shepherd. He won the CPL championship with his local team, the Guyana Amazon
Warriors, in September of last year. Prior to the first-ever SA20 auction, he
was also a direct signing for the Johannesburg Super Kings.
In white-ball cricket, his main responsibility is to
hammer sixes later in the order and strike the deck with the ball. With 31
Twenty20 international matches under his belt, he has a batting strike rate of
153.57 and a bowling economy rate of 10.38.