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The Projector Moment There's a moment in every well-run auction when the room shifts. The auctioneer announces a player's name, and instead of reading stats off…
The Auction Craze That Took Over Indian Cricket Walk into any corporate park in Bengaluru or Pune on a Friday evening, and chances are someone's planning an auc…
Why Most Teams Blow Their Budget by Round Three Every local cricket auction follows the same pattern. The first marquee player comes up - a known batsman who av…
The Ground Reality When the WPL launched in 2023, it did something the BCCI had been struggling with for years - it made women's cricket visible. Not just on TV…
From Pantry Conversations to Packed Auditoriums It usually starts with a Slack message: "Who's interested in an office cricket tournament?" Within 48 hours, the…
A local cricket auction in Ahmedabad set up a YouTube live stream for their 80-player auction. They pointed a phone camera at the projector screen, used a Bluet…
The IPL auction is a spectacle - Rs 25 crore bids, live television, war rooms with spreadsheets. You are not running the IPL. But you can absolutely run a playe…
Nothing kills a tournament faster than a rigged auction. If players believe the fix was in - that certain players were steered to certain teams, that budget rul…
Ten years ago, player auctions were an IPL thing. A televised spectacle for billionaire team owners, watched by millions but replicated by nobody. Today, a quic…
Every auction has one team owner who spends Rs 25,000 on two star players in the first three minutes. By the end of the auction, they are scrambling to fill the…
Every cricket fan in India has watched an IPL auction and thought, "What if we did this for our Sunday league?" The answer is: you can, and it is easier than yo…
The base price is the first number a player sees in an auction, and it shapes everything that follows. Set it too high and good players go unsold because teams…