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Irish stars fetch huge money in Pool One!

The star Irish players in Pool One have fetched huge money in this first round of bidding, with some teams dropping as much as half of their million-euro budget on two or three of the top local talent. This could have huge ramifications as the auction continues.

:ire: :bwl: Mark Adair€200,000Cork
:ire: :bat: Andy Balbirnie€180,000Dublin
:ire: :ar: Curtis Campher€150,000Antrim
:ire: :ar: George Dockrell€175,000Fingal
:ire: :bwl: Josh Little€300,000Cork
:ire: :ar: Andy McBrine€129,000Derry
:ire: :bwl: Tim Murtagh€120,000Antrim
:ire: :ar: Simi Singh€120,000Antrim
:ire: :bat: Paul Stirling€230,000Fingal
:ire: :bat: Harry Tector€270,000Down
:ire: :wk: Lorcan Tucker€100,000Antrim
:ire: :bwl: Craig Young€145,000Dublin


Pool Two of the auction is now underway on the Discord. Good luck!

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Mixed fortunes for overseas batting hopefuls

A talented pool of overseas batters has finally been completed, and it has been a pool of deeply mixed fortunes for the players involved. Unbelievably, George Munsey was one of four unsold batters in the pool, while Derry were prepared to drop almost 40% of their budget on just two players. What a time to be alive.

:pak: :bat: Iftikhar Ahmed€138,000Derry
:uae: :wk: Vriitya Aravind:x:unsold
:ban: :bat: Mohammad Ashraful:x:unsold
:saf: :bat: Temba Bavuma€250,000Derry
:nzf: :wk: Cam Fletcher:x:unsold
:ban: :wk: Nurul Hasan€71,000Down
:aus: :bat: Travis Head€191,000Fingal
:wi: :wk: Shai Hope€200,000Antrim
:saf: :wk: Heinrich Klaasen€176,000Dublin
:sco: :bat: George Munsey:x:unsold
:ned: :bat: Max O'Dowd€30,000Cork
:nzf: :bat: George Worker€62,000Dublin


Pool Three of the auction is now underway on the Discord. Good luck!

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Dublin hoard keepers as budgets get thin

Pool Three certainly was an interesting pool. Comprising mostly of the second-string of Irish batters and keepers, who could have seen Neil Rock coming as the highest earner from this pool? It was the culmination of what appeared to be a concerted strategy from Dublin to hoard as many Irish keeper-batters as they could. It will certainly be interesting to see the ripples from that approach, as at least two counties look as if they will have to find their first-choice gloveman in the unpredictable Pool Eight.

:ire: :bat: Ross Adair€35,000Fingal
:ire: :wk: Aniruddha Chore€45,000Dublin
:ire: :bat: Murray Commins€56,000Cork
:ire: :wk: Stephen Doheny€44,000Derry
:aus: :bat: :local: Nick Larkin€50,000Derry
:ire: :bat: James McCollum€30,000Antrim
:ire: :wk: Peter Moor€45,000Dublin
:ire: :bat: Kevin O'Brien€50,000Down
:ire: :bat: William Porterfield€61,000Cork
:ire: :wk: Stuart Poynter€30,000Derry
:ire: :wk: Neil Rock€75,000Dublin
:ire: :bat: Jack Tector€40,000Cork


Pool Four of the auction is now underway on the Discord. Good luck!

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Cork, Down splash cash as Thomas handed suspension

There was a moment of genuinely shocking drama in Pool Four of the auction, as West Indian Devon Thomas found himself subjected to an ICC suspension during his own auction. Bidding on him was correspondingly suspended while Cricket Ireland spooled through their filofax to find a relative like-for-like replacement. In the end they found Steven Taylor, who was one of three players to sell to Down County Cricket Club from this pool.

:wi: :ar: Fabian Allen:x:unsold
:ned: :ar: Bas de Leede€30,000Cork
:aus: :ar: Aaron Hardie:x:unsold
:ban: :ar: Aminul Islam Biplob:x:unsold
:nam: :arwk: Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton€30,000Cork
:afg: :ar: Shahidullah Mandozai:x:unsold
:nzf: :ar: Jimmy Neesham€99,000Down
:sri: :ar: Tharindu Ratnayake:x:unsold
:ban: :ar: Mohammad Saifuddin€89,000Down
:nam: :ar: JJ Smit€70,000Fingal
:wi: :ar: Odean Smith€61,000Derry
:usa: :arwk: Steven Taylor€20,000Down
:wi: :arwk: Devon Thomas€30,000Cork suspended


Pool Five of the auction is now underway on the Discord. Good luck!

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Bargains everywhere as Fingal fill up on all-rounders

No fewer than five local all-rounders will play for Fingal this year, after Gareth Delany, Jeremy Lawlor, Ruhan Pretorius and Stuart Thompson all join George Dockrell at the east coast club. Perhaps the biggest bargain of the entire round went to Antrim though: the South African-born son of the former Irish coach Graham boasts a List A batting average of 60.50 and strike rate of 113.61. Despite this, Antrim's bid of €20,000 proved to be a winning one as no other team showed any interest.

:ire: :ar: Jack Carty€23,000Cork
:ire: :ar: Gareth Delany€44,000Fingal
:ire: :ar: Matt Ford€20,000Antrim
:ire: :ar: Shane Getkate€43,000Derry
:nzf: :ar: :local: Luke Georgeson€69,000Down
:ire: :ar: Gavin Hoey€21,000Antrim
:ire: :ar: Tyrone Kane€51,000Dublin
:ire: :ar: Graham Kennedy€34,000Dublin
:ire: :ar: Jeremy Lawlor€30,000Fingal
:eng: :ar: :local: Steven Mullaney€53,000Derry
:ire: :ar: Ruhan Pretorius€42,000Fingal
:ire: :ar: Stuart Thompson€31,000Fingal


Pool Six of the auction is now underway on the Discord. Good luck!

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Perhaps the biggest bargain of the entire round went to Antrim though: the South African-born son of the former Irish coach Graham boasts a List A batting average of 60.50 and strike rate of 113.61. Despite this, Antrim's bid of €20,000 proved to be a winning one as no other team showed any interest.


:ire: :ar: Matt Ford
You didn't even mention his name
 
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Bowlers sell cheaply in quiet auction pool

Only one overseas bowler sold for more than €50,000 in a very quiet pool of bidding; as a result there's very little to report other than how pleased Dublin will be to have the competition's fastest bowler in their ranks. Lots of bargains here, and now the teams have only six overseas slots between them to be filled in Pool 8.

:zim: :bwl: Tendai Chisoro€30,000Derry
:pak: :bwl: Ihsanullah€83,000Dublin
:aus: :bwl: Matt Kuhnemann€30,000Cork
:saf: :bwl: Thando Ntini:x:unsold
:nzf: :bwl: Ed Nuttall€30,000Cork
:sri: :bwl: Matheesha Pathirana€50,000Antrim
:sco: :bwl: Safyaan Sharif€31,000Dublin
:nzf: :bwl: Henry Shipley€50,000Down
:saf: :ar: Beyers Swanepoel€34,000Fingal
:ned: :bwl: Paul van Meekeren€31,000Derry
:wi: :bwl: Jomel Warrican:x:unsold
:sco: :bwl: Mark Watt:x:unsold


Pool Seven of the auction is now underway on the Discord. Good luck!

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Irish spinners out of fashion as three go unsold

No fewer than three Irish bowlers have gone unsold in the most recent round of bidding, two of whom are all-format Irish internationals in 2023. The unsold players are Jack Carson, Matt Humphreys and Ben White, who had to look on from afar while their seam-bowling peers fetched salaries of up to €52,000. Not all the spinners went unsold though: young left-armer Michael Frost found himself in possession of a spot in the Derry squad. Antrim also got their hands on a couple of otherwise overlooked Irish internationals, while Matt Dunn got the price he needed to make the switch from Surrey to Cork.

:eng: :bwl: :local: Jack Carson:x:unsold
:ire: :ar: David Delany€30,000Antrim
:eng: :bwl: :local: Matt Dunn€50,000Cork
:ire: :bwl: Matt Frost€40,000Derry
:ire: :ar: Fionn Hand€30,000Antrim
:ire: :bwl: Graham Hume€52,000Derry
:ire: :bwl: Matt Humphreys:x:unsold
:ire: :bwl: Josh Manley€33,000Fingal
:ire: :bwl: Graeme McCarter€39,000Down
:ire: :bwl: Barry McCarthy€52,000Cork
:ire: :bwl: Conor Olphert€30,000Fingal
:ire: :bwl: Ben White:x:unsold


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