{"id":102853,"date":"2026-03-03T14:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=102853"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:45:26","slug":"haris-rauf-among-marquee-names-for-mens-hundred-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/haris-rauf-among-marquee-names-for-mens-hundred-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Haris Rauf among marquee names for men&#8217;s Hundred auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/haris-rauf-squad-exclusion-raises-questions-after-bbl-success\/\">Haris Rauf<\/a> is among the 10 marquee players whose names will be called out first at next week&#8217;s inaugural men&#8217;s Hundred auction, with 14 Pakistan players on the longlist for bids.<\/p>\n<p>The ECB and the eight franchises released a joint statement last week committing to selection being based on &#8220;performance, availability, and the needs of each team&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It came in response to a report from the BBC that the four teams who are part or fully owned by IPL franchises would enforce a &#8220;shadow ban&#8221; on Pakistani players, refusing to bid for them for geopolitical reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s longlist released by the ECB last month featured 63 Pakistani players among the 710 names who registered for the auction, and teams were asked to submit a list of around 75-100 players that they were most interested in signing by the end of last week.<\/p>\n<p>The longlist was then trimmed to 243 men&#8217;s players, and has since been circulated to teams and seen by ESPNcricinfo. It includes 14 Pakistan players: Rauf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shadab Khan, Usman Tariq, Saim Ayub, Abrar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz, Naseem Shah, Mohammad Amir, Zaman Khan, Usama Mir, Imad Wasim, Akif Javed and Salman Mirza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haris Rauf is among the 10 marquee players whose names will be called out first at next week&#8217;s inaugural men&#8217;s Hundred auction, with 14 Pakistan players on the longlist for bids. The ECB and the eight franchises released a joint statement last week committing to selection being based on &#8220;performance, availability, and the needs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":27115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7501,37003],"class_list":["post-102853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-haris-rauf","tag-rauf-among-names-for-hundred-auction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102854,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102853\/revisions\/102854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}