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Australian all-rounder Cameron Green has been traded to the Royal Challengers Bangalore from the Mumbai Indians ahead of the IPL 2024 auction. The IPL trade window has been buzzing with the five-time champions trading for Gujarat Titans captain Hardik Pandya in an all-cash deal.
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To accommodate this deal, MI sent Green to RCB in a similar cash transfer which brought back a sum of INR 17.5 crore to the Mumbai auction purse. The Australian all-rounder was MI Paltan's most expensive signing and had a great debut season in 2023. Green scored 452 runs at an average of 50.22 and a strike rate of 160.28.
He also smashed a century in Mumbai's final league game against the Surisers Hyderabad. With the ball, Green picked up six wickets in 16 matches at a 9.50 economy. Now Cameron Green will get a chance to showcase his all-around skills in a Royal Challengers Bangalore jersey.
The Bangalore-based franchise could comfortably afford to bring in Cameron Green as they had a purse of INR 40.75 Crore. RCB had a long list of released players which included Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Josh Hazlewood, Finn Allen, Michael Bracewell, David Willey, Wayne Parnell, Sonu Yadav, Avinash Singh, Siddharth Kaul and Kedar Jadhav.
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Now in the IPL 2024 auction, the Royal Challengers will look to rebuild an entirely new bowling attack as they only retained fast bowlers like Mohammed Siraj, Vyshak Vijay Kumar, Manoj Bhandage and Rajan Kumar.