{"id":146288,"date":"2026-03-24T08:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=146288"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:33:05","slug":"ben-duckett-pulls-out-of-ipl-2026-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=146288","title":{"rendered":"Ben Duckett pulls out of IPL 2026 &#8211; Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70780005\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">English opener Ben Duckett announced on Tuesday that he has pulled of IPL 2026.  Duckett was picked by Delhi Capitals for Rs. 2 crore in the auction.<\/p>\n<p>Duckett said that he is withdrawing from IPL 2026 to save his England career, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/cricket\/2026\/03\/24\/ben-duckett-interview-pulling-out-ipl-save-england-career\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with the        <i>Telegraph<\/i>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very difficult decision, and I want to apologise to everyone at Delhi that I won\u2019t be coming. I felt it was going to be a great opportunity when I put myself in the auction, and for a franchise like Delhi to pick me up was amazing. I was buzzing. It\u2019s the best competition in the world with the best players, and would have been an amazing experience,\u201d said Duckett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019m potentially saying goodbye to the IPL, having never played in it. With the age I am now [31], it might be tough for me, but I hope one day I\u2019m able to represent Delhi. But I\u2019ve thought a lot about this, and know it\u2019s the right decision for my career,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><i>MORE TO FOLLOW<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Mar 24, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-news\/ben-duckett-ipl-2026-withdraws-delhi-capitals-england-career-pulls-out\/article70780005.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English opener Ben Duckett announced on Tuesday that he has pulled of IPL 2026. Duckett was picked by Delhi Capitals for Rs. 2 crore in the auction. Duckett said that he is withdrawing from IPL 2026 to save his England career, in an interview with the Telegraph. \u201cIt was a very difficult decision, and I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PTI03_04_2026_000274B.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-C3u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}