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James Faulkner IPL 2022: Will James Faulkner play in IPL 2022?

Gurpreet Singh
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James Faulkner IPL 2022: Will James Faulkner play in IPL 2022?

James Faulkner IPL 2022: The Australian all-rounder left the ongoing PSL 7 midway over contractual payment issue with the PCB.

Australian and Quetta Gladiators all-rounder in the ongoing seventh edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) James Faulkner, decided to step down from the remainder of the tournament over a contractual payment dispute with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Saturday.

Taking to his Twitter handle a few hours ago, the 31-year-old issued an apology to the Pakistan Cricket fans for his withdrawal from the tournament, while also accusing the PCB for not honouring his contractual payment and lying to him throughout his stay in the tournament.

A couple of hours later, the PCB along with the Quetta Gladiators came up a combined, detailed account of their side of the story, refuting the ‘baseless allegations’ of the left-arm pacer.

As per the PCB, 70% of the payment amount as per the contract have already been transferred to Faulkner’s offshore UK bank account, and has been acknowledged by him for the same as well.

However, as per PCB, Faulkner also insisted the board to make a similar duplicate payment in his Australian account as well, which would have meant that the all-rounder would have been paid twice.

We are yet to hear James Faulkner’s counter on PCB’s statement as yet.

James Faulkner IPL 2022

As far as Faulkner’s participation in the imminent 15th season of the IPL is concerned, the Aussie bowling all-rounder failed to grab the attention of any of the 10 franchises despite being amongst the 600 players up for possible grabs in the recently concluded mega auction. The development meant that he would not feature in IPL 2022.

Faulkner was placed in Set no.45 of the final players list at a base price of INR 1 Crore, and was unfortunately amongst the many players who were not selected by the franchises to be part of the ‘accelerated bidding‘ process during the final stage of the auction.

In the ongoing PSL 7, Faulkner played a total of 6 matches for the Sarfaraz Ahmed-led Quetta Gladiators, and picked 6 wickets at an average of 32.66. He made himself unavailable for the franchise’s previous two matches against Peshawar Zalmi and Multan Sultans due to his aforementioned tussle with the PCB.

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Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.

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