Chris Woakes Purchased By way of Punjab Kings For 4.2 Crores In IPL Public sale 2024

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Punjab Kings have signed up England allrounder Chris Woakes within the ongoing IPL public sale 2024. He had registered himself at a base worth of Rs 2 crores.

His former IPL staff Kolkata Knight Riders opened the bidding earlier than Punjab Kings joined the race. Earlier than hanging a bid on Chris Woakes, the Punjab-based staff engaged in a heated bidding conflict for New Zealand batter Daryl Mitchell.

On the other hand, they in the end misplaced the bid, as Mitchell used to be signed through the Chennai Tremendous Kings for Rs 14 crores. After shedding the race to signal Mitchell, they controlled to win the race for Chris Woakes and signed him for Rs. 4.20 crores.

Chris Woakes has performed in 3 seasons of the IPL to this point. He started his IPL occupation with Kolkata Knight Riders in 2017. The England megastar made an immediate have an effect on through taking 17 wickets in 13 video games for the Kolkata-based outfit in his debut season.

In IPL 2018, he performed for Royal Challengers Bangalore and collected 8 wickets in 5 video games earlier than being launched. Chris Woakes went unsold within the 2019 public sale earlier than Delhi Capitals secured his products and services within the IPL 2020 public sale.

His ultimate look within the pageant got here in 2021 the place he performed simply 3 video games and collected 5 wickets. Total, Chris Woakes has performed 21 video games in IPL and has picked up 30 wickets whilst additionally scoring 78 runs. He used to be just lately in India for the ODI International Cup and collected 10 wickets in 8 video games whilst keeping up an financial system charge of not up to 6. With the bat, he scored 131 runs with the assistance of one-half century.

Chris Woakes’ IPL stats:

Batting:

YEAR	MAT	NO	RUNS	HS	AVG	BF	SR	100	50	4S	6S	CT	ST
Profession	21	6	78	18	13	77	101.3	0	0	7	2	7	0
2021	3	1	15	15*	0	11	136.36	0	0	2	0	0	0
2018	5	2	17	11	8.5	19	89.47	0	0	1	1	1	0
2017	13	3	46	18	11.5	47	97.87	0	0	4	1	6	0

Bowling:

YEAR	MAT	BALLS	RUNS	WKTS	BBM	AVE	ECON	SR	4W	5W
Profession	21	440	658	30	3/36	21.93	8.97	14.67	0	0
2021	3	66	82	5	2/18	16.4	7.45	13.2	0	0
2018	5	110	190	8	3/36	23.75	10.36	13.75	0	0
2017	13	264	386	17	3/6	22.7	8.77	15.52	0	0