Amit Mishra lucknow super giants Player: Amit Mishra has been bought by Lucknow Super Giants at his base price.
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IPL 2023 auction entrants Amit Mishra Be the oldest i.e. old player. 40-year-old leg-spinner Amit Mishra did not find any buyer in the mega auction held last year. This time he had kept his base price at Rs 50 lakh. Lucknow Super Giants have bought him at this price. Let us tell you that in a recent interview, he also said that he still has 2-3 more years of cricket left in him.
Amit Mishra played the last match in the year 2021 on the pitch of IPL. He has a total experience of 154 IPL matches, in which he has taken 166 wickets. He is the most successful Indian bowler in the BCCI league along with Yuzvendra Chahal. He is the only bowler whose name has 3 hat-tricks in IPL. Even after this, he could not find a buyer in the mega auction. But he did not remain empty handed in the IPL 2023 auction.
10 wickets before IPL 2023 auction
Before being named in the IPL 2023 auction, Amit Mishra performed impressively in the domestic T20 tournament Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. There he took 10 wickets for his team Haryana in 8 matches with an economy of 5.89. Amit Mishra’s best performance in those 8 matches was taking 3 wickets for 10 runs.
IPL performance of Amit Mishra
Amit Mishra’s best performance on the pitch of IPL was seen in the year 2013 season, when he took 21 wickets in 17 matches and his best performance was 4 wickets for 19 runs. By giving the best this year, he broke his 2011 record of 19 wickets.
Amit Mishra’s IPL career graph really started falling from the 2020 season, the year he played only 3 matches and took 3 wickets. After that in IPL 2021 also he got to play just 4 matches and took 6 wickets. Although in these 6 wickets, 4 wickets were taken by Mishra ji while giving 24 runs in a single match.