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Yousuf and Prince up for second IPL auction
The highly confidential players' list will be distributed to the eight franchise owners only tomorrow morning.
- IANS
- Published: 00:32 March 10, 2008
New Delhi: Pakistan's Mohammad Yousuf and South Africa's Ashwell Prince, who were dumped by franchise owners at the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction last month, along with Misbah-ul-Haq will be among the 18 players to be auctioned on Tuesday.
The highly confidential players' list will be distributed to the eight franchise owners only on Tuesday morning.
The list includes seven New Zealanders, four Australians, three Pakistanis, two from Bangladesh, and one each from Sri Lanka and South Africa.
The list includes the cricketers who are already contracted by IPL, an extension of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and would be playing in the maiden edition of the lucrative Twenty20 tournament starting on April 18.
"There are 13 other foreign players who have shown keen interest to play in the first season," a top BCCI official said on condition of anonymity.
As per the IPL rules, the high profile team owners are free to buy more foreign players from outside the list of 18, but the teams will have to inform the IPL about the players they are targeting and the organisers will then negotiate their base price and try to secure the no-objection certificates (NOCs) from their home boards.
Pakistani batting's mainstay Yousuf and Prince were up for sale in the first auction, but there were no takers for the two players.
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