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Five franchises let their captain go. Three did it to free up purse for the mega auction. One did it because the dressing room had stopped listening. We went through all ten retention lists so you don't have to.
Siraj took five for thirty-two in the first innings of the first Test against the West Indies, and the five wickets were the wickets of a bowler who learned his craft in the IPL, and the learning is the thing that the Test team has benefited from, and the benefiting is the thing that the IPL's critics do not credit the league for.
The India U19 squad for the World Cup was announced on Monday, and the fifteen names in it are the names that the IPL scouts have been tracking since the Cooch Behar Trophy in October, and the names are the names that will, in two years, be the names in the mega auction pool.
