The protests over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) notwithstanding, the players’ auction for the Indian Premier League will go ahead in Kolkata as scheduled on Thursday.
There have been reports of violence in West Bengal but Kolkata hasn’t been affected to a great extent.
It is reliably learnt that Delhi Capitals’ management team that will be representing the franchise at the auction will be reaching Kolkata on Tuesday to start their final preparation.
“As of Monday evening, IPL auctions are on. Franchises will start arriving by tomorrow evening and Wednesday morning,” a senior BCCI official told PTI .
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As many as 332 cricketers will go under the hammer at the IPL auction in Kolkata on December 19, with Australia’s Glenn Maxwell and South African Dale Steyn among those opting for the highest base price of Rs 2 crore.
This year’s auction is a small one with only 73 slots to be filled in by the eight franchises, out of which only 29 can be foreign buys.
The amended Citizenship law, which seeks to provide citizenship to non-Muslim religious minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, has been met with strong protests across the north-eastern provinces, West Bengal, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kerala and Mumbai.
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