“He is the ideal candidate for us in that middle-order power role,” Bobat said on RCB Bold Diaries. “He is a high quality, skilled and powerful batsman. He has the game against pace and spin. He has international experience in all formats and I am sure he will enjoy batting at Chinnaswamy. So watching him do it will be really exciting. He is also a “A fantastic bowler and he bowls with pace and bounce, which were certainly attributes we were looking for especially in our local conditions. Let’s not forget what an exceptional fielder he is. Some of the catches he has made of late in the gully is really impressive.”
“If I come back at mid-morning yesterday [Sunday]”We were pretty clear about our hold and release decisions and we communicated that to all of our players,” Bobat said. “We were pretty clear about what that meant for our auction priorities. So, I felt like we were going to have a pretty quiet afternoon. If you look at the retentions and the decisions we make, we obviously have a really strong top order and we wanted to improve the middle order by adding a bit of power.
“With a couple of hours before the hold and release deadline, we were informed of Cameron’s possible availability for the trade, which we had to take seriously. So, after talking to the guys at MI, we put together a small group of us at For our part, we thought it would be best to discuss this and debate the pros and cons of trying to make this trade work, which is what we did for a while.
“Essentially, we were trying to weigh whether we take the risk of someone else picking Cameron Green now, which could have happened before the deadline… expecting him to come to the auction as a released player, but someone else could.” . “I picked it up, which was obviously the case. Even then, if you make it to the auction, there’s no guarantee you’ll get it at the auction because you can easily be outbid.”
By exchanging Green for RCB in a cash deal, Mumbai added INR 17.50 crore to its purse, paving the way for Hardik Pandya’s return to Mumbai from Gujarat Titans. RCB now has INR 23.35 crore to fill six slots in the December 19 auction in Dubai.
Released Players: Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Josh Hazlewood, Finn Allen, Michael Bracewell, David Willey, Wayne Parnell, Sonu Yadav, Avinash Singh, Siddharth Kaul, Kedar Jadhav
Transferred players: Shahbaz Ahmed
Players traded: Mayank Dagar, Cameron Green