Dozens of the country’s most exciting players will be excluded from this flagship event because there are simply not enough seats on board
But dozens of the country’s most exciting players will be excluded from this flagship event because there are simply not enough seats on boardThe inaugural SA20 player auction was marketed and promoted with a biting verve and intensity — it was the theatre and drama before the cricket. And that was understandable given the importance of squad assembly. It was also worth many millions of dollars in pre-tournament marketing.
The pricing structure was bewildering from the start with three levels of “reserve” — R175,000, R850,000 and R1.7m for the “elite”. Before the auction it was hard to imagine which of the six teams would spend R1.7m of their approximate total budget of R34m on 36-year-old former England captain Eoin Morgan, or indeed 38-year-old former New Zealand captain Ross Taylor.But they may well have been bought on Monday because building a squad at a player auction involves much more than buying “talent”.
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