South Africa and England players to leave IPL 2017 early for national duty

The IPL governing body informed the franchises about the decision of the two cricket boards in an email along with the final updated player roster to go under the hammer in Bengaluru on Feb 20, ESPNcricinfo reported. The BCCI is in is talks with Cricket South Africa to see if their players' IPL stay can be extended.

With South Africa to tour England for three ODIs in the last week of May ahead of the Champions Trophy that starts on June 1, it is highly unlikely that CSA will allow any of their regular players to play in the IPL final on May 21.

South Africa’s AB de Villiers (Royal Challengers Bangalore), Faf du Plessis (Rising Pune Supergiants), JP Duminy, Quinton de Kock, Chris Morris (all Delhi Daredevils), David Miller, Hashim Amla (both Kings XI Punjab) and England’s Jos Buttler (Mumbai Indians) and Sam Billings ( Delhi Daredevils) have been retained by their respective franchises.

Meanwhile, 13 South African players will feature in the auction. Among them, CSA is interested specifically in the release of Kagiso Rabada, Imran Tahir, Farhaan Behardien, Wayne Parnell, Lungi Ngidi, Andile Phehlukwayo and Dwaine Pretorius. 

England will play two ODIs against Ireland on May 5 and 7 before the South Africa series and the Champions Trophy. 

Eoin Morgan, Ben Stokes and Chris Woakes are part of the top bracket at the auction with a base price of INR 2 crore (approx US $298,000). The other England players in the auction are wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow (INR 1.5 crore), opening batsmen Alex Hales and Jason Roy (INR 1 crore) and fast bowlers Chris Jordan and Tymal Mills (INR 50 lakh).