Despite the hype surrounding the last week’s Indian Premier League (IPL) 2018 auction, not everyone from cricket fraternity is pleased with the nature of the event. Cricket officials from New Zealand have come out in public, demanding an end to the IPL auction, which they consider is degrading and humiliating for players. He said the league should instead allow teams to choose players the way other top professional leagues in the world do. The auction system is wrong — it’s not professional, far from it,” Mills told the Herald. IPL’s standEven before NZCPA officials’ outburst, questions have been raised over the use of auction to select players in the world’s most cash-rich cricket league.

Source: Hindustan Times January 31, 2018 07:52 UTC