The Cricket Board-floated Indian Premier League is to conduct a second players’ auction here on Tuesday (March 11) to help the team franchises to finalise their playing squads at least thirty days prior to the start of the Twenty20 event on April 18.

A fresh set of 25 players, who have already been centrally contracted to the BCCI, will also form part of the auction process which will see Pakistan players Misbah Ul Haq, Salman Butt, Mohammed Yousuf and Yasir Hameed go under the hammer along with seven New Zealand cricketers, a media release said today(March 10).

The list of Kiwi players includes pacemen Kyle Mills, James Franklin and Chris Martin, spinner Jeetan Patel and batsmen Ross Taylor, Peter Fulton and Jamie How.

All the 16 members of the under-19 World Cup winning Indian squad plus another under-19 player to be nominated by the IPL Governing Council, would be allocated to the franchisees on a “draft” format.

These colts can be signed at a fixed player fee of USD 30,000 and the list includes victorius captain Virat Kohli, Saurabh Tiwary, Srivats Goswami and Taruvar Kohli.

What is the “draft” format?

As per the “draft” format, franchise owners would be made to pick up numbers 1-8. The franchise which draws number 1 in the draft will get the first choice to pick the best player that they perceive from the list. The same franchise will also get the 16th pick in the draft.

The franchise which picks number two will get the second and 15th choice and so on and so forth, the release said. The first players auction saw 77 players being auctioned off for sums ranging from USD 1.5 million to USD 400,000.

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