IPL Player Auction is Deeply Humiliating for Players: New Zealand Cricket Player's Association

The IPL Auctions yet again turned out to be a humdinger as some of the bids changed the world for some of the youngsters, as they got record bids and will play in the upcoming IPL for different franchises.

Mujeeb Zadran, the 16-year-old Afghanistan bowler who has not much of an experience of rubbing shoulders with international stars, was bought for a whopping Rs 4 crores while his teammate Rashid Khan was retained by the Sunrisers Hyderabad for a whopping Rs 9 crores.

Several U-19 stars bagged huge bids too. Two U-19 stars Kamlesh Nagarkoti and Shivam Mavi were bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for a whopping Rs 3.4 crores and Rs 3 crores, respectively.

It will definitely change the life of the teenagers. However, the New Zealand Cricket Player’s Association has said the Indian Premier League auction is very humiliating for the players.

“I think the whole system is archaic and deeply humiliating for players, who are paraded like cattle for all the world to see,” Heath Mills, chief executive of NZCPA was quoted as saying by the ESPN Cricinfo.

He also stated the players are being treated as mere commodities for IPL franchises with the destiny of the former lying in the hands of the latter.

“The players enter the auction not knowing where they are going, who their team-mates are going be, who’s managing them, who the owners are — no other sports league in the world engages players on that basis,” Mills said.

Former Chief Executive of Wellington Cricket Peter Clinton had also called the IPL Auctions ‘ridiculous’.

Taking to his twitter handle he wrote,

‘The IPL Auction is such an undignified, cruel & unnecessary employment practice. Ridiculous that it exists today, belongs in the medieval ages.”

As many as 578 players out of 1,122 went under the hammer. The franchises had a total of Rs 80 crores to spend, and IPL made it mandatory that they should spend a minimum of 75% of their purse.

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