3 Teams that can bid for Mitchell Starc in IPL 2021 Auction

3. Rajasthan Royals

The previous season Rajasthan Royals had finished at eighth position in the points table. While Jofra Archer was at his fluent best with the ball, he didn’t get the support from his partners to stop the flow of the runs and take wickets at regular intervals. As a result, Rajasthan leaked a lot of runs in the death overs and failed to defend the totals posted by their batsmen.

Meanwhile, Royals played a big gamble ahead of IPL 2021 by releasing their captain Steve Smith and making local boy Sanju Samson the new skipper of the team. Excluding Smith from the team leaves Rajasthan with one empty overseas slots as the other three are occupied by Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer.

Mitchell Starc was in terrific form in the just-concluded India tour of Australia and can repeat his heroics on the Indian pitches as well. In addition,  no one other than Starc can be better to assist Archer in handling the pace department.