Kyle Jamieson explains why he opted out of Indian T20 league mega auction

As the final list of players available for the upcoming mega auction is finally out, it contains several top-class players. However, Kyle Jamieson's name was missing from the final list. Over the last two years, he has been an amazing player in the international arena.

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So far in his career, the pacer has played 12 Tests, 5 ODIs and 8 T20Is for New Zealand respectively. As a matter of fact, Jamieson was purchased by the Royal Challengers Bangalore for a whopping amount of INR 15 crore during the previous auction of the Indian T20 league.

However, the bowling all-rounder cited the bio-bubble fatigue as the reason for him not participating in the mega auction of the fifteenth edition of the Indian T20 league. He also drew light on how hard it is to stay in a bubble. The Kiwi pacer also spoke about his tight schedule, and felt the need to spend some time at home.

"Yeah, look, there were a couple of things for me. Firstly, after the last 12 months, it's had its challenges with MIQs (managed isolation and quarantine) and bubbles and spending a fair amount of time in that sort of set-up. It was important for me, when I look at the schedule coming up over the next 12 months to try and find six weeks or eight weeks where I can spend some time at home," said Kyle Jamieson, as quoted by Cricbuzz.

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Jamieson then said that he needed some time to work on his game. While mentioning the fact that he is still relatively young in his career, he said that he wants to get better. Further on, the 27-year-old stated that his desire was to play for New Zealand in all three formats of the game.

"The second thing for me was, reflecting over the last 12-24 months and understanding that I'm very young in my career and only two years in, that I wanted to have time to work on my game. I guess I didn't really feel like I was where I wanted to be and if I want to compete for spots in the New Zealand sides moving forward across all three formats, I actually need to spend time working on my game and not just trying to play the whole time. Yeah, for me it was just about time at home and just time to work on my game," he added.