The veteran Australian pacer, Mitchell Starc has again come at loggerheads with the insurers over his lost Indian Premier League (IPL) contract in 2018. He was bought by the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) franchise in the auction for a huge amount of $ 1.8 million (₹12.83 crore). But the southpaw failed to feature in the tournament as he sustained a fracture in this right tibial bone during the South Africa tour in March 2018.

Starc had taken out a policy that would pay him $ 1.53 million if he had missed the IPL campaign because of an injury. However, after claiming the same, insurers, a syndicate of Lloyd’s of London, declared that the cricketer did not ‘meet the policy requirements for payment of the total disablement benefit’.

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Clyde and Co lawyers, representing Lloyd’s of London, lodged the documents in May after Mitchell Starc filed a lawsuit in the Victorian County Court in April this year. The document filed by Clyde and Co claimed according to the Sydney Morning Herald said, “In answer to the whole of the statement of claim, the defendant denies that the plaintiff is entitled to the relief sought or any relief at all.”

Also, Starc had mentioned in the meetings that he had paid a premium of $97,920 to be covered between February 27 and March 31 in 2018, when the IPL concluded. He has claimed in his suit that his injury woes began during the second Test against South Africa in Port Elizabeth and things worsened in the next game only for him to suffer from a grade three tibial injury which involved a fracture in his right tibia bone.

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Clyde and Co lawyers and even the Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) have resisted from commenting on the issue. A civil trial regarding the same has been listed on March 30 next year which will go on for three days.