Jharkhand’s Ishank Jaggi has been included in the auction pool after a string of best performance in the final leg of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy.
Jaggi was not kept in pruned list of 350 players that BCCI announced after consultation with the franchise and his base price is Rs 10 lakh.
Ishank Jaggi was a hard man to catch. He bounced along the sidelines of the pitch greeting his peers with either hug or handshake basically both. It was a build up when he would finally meet Sarandeep Singh, the national team selector.
For many years Jaggi has been a name not unheard of in the domestic circuit yet still, he wasn’t spoken about either. A top order batsman destined to languish in the realm of indifference and mediocrity.
That was until the 2016-2017 season kicked in. There were more meaning and purpose to his knocks anytime he took to the field. It was a season where he would help Jharkhand reach the semi-finals of the Ranji Trophy.
He amassed 890 runs in 10 Ranji Trophy matches the seventh best in the leaderboard in the current season. It included four centuries, the last being a 129-run in the semi-final loss to evertime champions Gujarat. It wasn’t coincidence that his form collided with his team making their first ever semi-final appearance in the Ranji Trophy.
