Bangladesh premier all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan registered for the IPL 2021 auction, scheduled to take place on February 18 in Chennai. Shakib has been listed at the highest base price of INR 2 crore (approx. US $274,000).

The premier all-rounder, who missed out on playing in the previous edition of the most prominent franchisee T20 tournament due to serving a year-long ban imposed by the ICC, is one of the 11 players to be listed at the highest base price. 

Kedar Jadhav, Harbhajan Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Steven Smith, Moeen Ali, Sam Billings, Liam Plunkett, Jason Roy, Mark Wood and Colin Ingram are the other 10 in that list along with Shakib.

A total of 1097 players registered for the money-spinning T20 league by the deadline of February 4. Out of those, 814 are from India and the other 283 are overseas players. The most number of overseas players were from West Indies. 56 Windies players registered. However, only five Bangladeshi players including Shakib registered for IPL.

Shakib has played in eight editions of IPL so far -- six times for Kolkata Knight Riders and twice for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Shakib scored a total of 746 runs at an average of  21.31 and scalped 59 wickets in the 63 matches played in IPL. Shakib had a contract with Sunrisers till 2020 but the franchise let him go after his ban.

A total of 61 players can get teams in the auction with a highest number of 22 overseas players among them.