3 biggest controversies in IPL auction, auction for CSK?
The IPL 2025 mega auction is not far away now, in which crores of bids can be placed on many big and famous players. According to reports, each team will have the right to retain a maximum of 5 players and the team will be able to use the Right to Match (RTM card) on one player. The auction has proved to be full of excitement every time, but many big controversies have also been seen in it. So let's take a look at the 3 biggest controversies in IPL auction history.
1. punjab Kings confused on shashank Singh
The name of a shashank Singh came up in the IPL 2024 auction, who plays domestic cricket for Chhattisgarh. punjab Kings owners preity zinta and Ness Wadia placed the first bid after some thought and shashank became a part of the punjab team the very next moment. After a while, the owners of punjab Kings realized that they had bid on the wrong shashank Singh. preity zinta and Ness Wadia demanded to return 32-year-old shashank and bid for another shashank Singh, but their demand was rejected due to IPL rules.
2. CSK bought Andrew Flintoff
In the 2009 auction, england bowler Andrew Flintoff became the most expensive player, who was bid for Rs 9.8 crore. The controversy arose when former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi revealed that the IPL 2009 auction was fixed because he had ensured that CSK would buy Flintoff under any circumstances. But bcci secretary N Srinivasan completely rejected these things.
3. RCB and KKR clash over Yuvraj Singh
In 2014, a big controversy arose over Yuvraj Singh. A debate broke out between RCB and KKR over buying yuvraj singh and the bid in the auction reached up to 10 crores. The controversy arose when the auction host declared yuvraj singh 'sold' to RCB. But then KKR said that they had placed a bid, but it was not taken into consideration. After some thought, the bid on Yuvraj was re-issued and finally RCB bought this legendary all-rounder of india for Rs 14 crore.
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