IPL 2025 Glenn Phillips: Fans are eagerly waiting for IPL 2025. Meanwhile, in the recently held mega auction, teams placed big bets on many big star players. While on one hand Rishabh Pant was bought by teams for Rs 27 crores and 13 year old Vaibhav Suryavanshi for Rs 1 crore, there were some players who remained unsold. Glenn Phillips was also not bought by any team on the first day of the mega auction. But on the second day, Gujarat Titans players placed big bets on Glenn Phillips.
Why did Gujarat Titans buy Glenn Phillips?
Gujarat Titans spent Rs 2 crore on New Zealand all-rounder Glenn Phillips in the Indian Premier League 2025 auction. This New Zealand player had fixed his base price at Rs 2 crore. Apart from SRH, Glenn Phillips has also played for Rajasthan Royals (RR) in IPL. Actually, Gujarat Titans had bought Glenn Phillips for Rs 2 crore in accelerated bidding. Glenn Phillips played his last IPL match for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2023.
Gujarat Titans have included Glenn Phillips in their team as an all-rounder. Glenn Phillips can perform for the team with both bat and ball. That’s why Gujarat Titans have placed a big bet on Glenn Phillips. Glenn Phillips has played 8 matches in IPL so far and in these 8 innings, Glenn Phillips has scored 65 runs at a strike rate of 118.18. Glenn Phillips also has 2 wickets in his name. Talking about T-20 cricket, Glenn Phillips has scored 6,471 runs in 236 innings of 253 matches at a strike rate of 140.58. Glenn Phillips has 23 wickets in his name. Now it is expected that in IPL 2025, Glenn Phillips would like to perform as per his talent.
GT had retained 4 players. GT had retained Rashid Khan by paying the highest amount of Rs 18 crore. GT had retained Shubman Gill (Rs 16.5 crore), Sai Sudarshan (Rs 8.5 crore), Rahul Tewatia (Rs 4 crore) and Shahrukh Khan (Rs 4 crore). Whereas Gill will remain the captain of Gujarat team in future. Ashish Nehra will also remain the coach of Gujarat team.
