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‘Which IPL team do you want to play for?’ – A fan asks Dale Steyn; gets a top class response
Dale Steyn is meanwhile playing in Mzansi Super League and has signed for the upcoming Big Bash League tournament in Australia.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 auction is slated to take place in Kolkata on December 19, 2019, and is expected to be a very interesting one. The trading window for this year was closed on November 15 recently and it saw many players being released or traded form one team to another. Some teams went for the purge this year and released players in hordes, which also increased their purses for the upcoming auction.
Royal Challengers Bangalore was one such team that let as much as 12 players go in the trading window and retained just two foreign players in AB de Villiers and Moeen Ali. Meanwhile one of the players released by RCB was De Villiers’ countrymate Dale Steyn, who had played just two matches in IPL 2019 before hurting his shoulder and leaving the league. It was expected that Steyn might be retained, but he was let go.
Dale Steyn says he will play for any team that can afford him
A big reason for Steyn being released by RCB was his fitness issues. Since 2016, Steyn has had issues with his shoulder and ankles. A shoulder injury in Australia led him to miss a year of cricket after having surgery on it. He returned to cricket in 2018 against India at home, but hurt his ankle and this has resulted in him retiring from Test cricket after playing 93 Tests.
It remains to be seen whether Dale Steyn puts his name in the auction for the upcoming IPL 2020, but there is lots of curiosity amongst fans. Therefore, a fan asked Steyn on Twitter during a Q&A session in which team would he like to play in IPL 2020. The fan asked, “Dale, honestly which team do you want to play for in IPL 2020?”, to which Steyn humorously replied, “Whoever can afford me”
Dale Steyn is meanwhile playing in Mzansi Super League and has signed for the upcoming Big Bash League tournament in Australia. South Africa has not picked him since he announced retirement from the longest format of the game, on basis of his fitness issues. Steyn however, claimed that he was fit to play in the T20I series in India, but was not picked by the selectors.
