IPL governing council has not taken decision on auction of Pakistan players
The Governing Council of the IPL has not yet taken any decision on whether they would include Pakistani players for the auction of the 4th edition of IPL. The auction is supposed to take place on January 8-9, next year.
A news report had appeared which had hinted that Pakistan players would be left out from the IPL auction in the wake of the spot fixing fiasco which has resulted in the ICC probing the matter.
"Anyone can write anything sitting in their room, but no such decision was taken at the meeting," an IPL Governing Council member said on condition of anonymity.
Reports had previously appeared that quoted an unnamed official of the BCCI that owns the IPL Twenty20 league, which indicated that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 players would be left out of the auction, since the Governing Council members felt it
would be wrong to allow Pakistan players before any decision is made on the spot fixing controversy.
In the last edition of the IPL, the Pakistan players were not picked up at the auction as no franchise showed any interest in them. According to reports, it was said that the franchises, were pressurised by the government not to
bid for the Pakistan players. Eleven Pakistan players were part of the auction including http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482, Umar Gul, Imran Nazir, Sohail Tanvir, Mohammad Amir, Rana Naved, Abdul Razzaq, Kamran Akmal, Umar Akmal and Saeed Ajmal.
They were unsold at the end of the auction. Pakistan players had featured in the first edition of the IPL, however things took a turn for the worse after the worsening of diplomatic relations between Pakistan and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 in the wake
of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Terror attacks. Following the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan players were denied permission to play in the second edition of the IPL.
IPL itself has been embroiled in great controversy over the last few months as Lalit Modi, who was the founder of the multimillion dollar Indian Twenty20 cricket league was alleged of being involved in embezzlement and other financial
irregularities. He has been sacked since then and is now living in hiding in the United Kingdom. He has however shown interest in being involved with other sports ventures and might start a cricket league in the United States of America.
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