Missing out: England star Jonny Bairstow wasn’t selected

Derek Pringle counters the arguments of administrators in New Zealand regarding the morals of the IPL and its player draft
There is no pleasing some people. The Indian Premier League has been enriching cricketers, not all of them very good, for ten years now, but some representatives from the New Zealand Cricket Players’ Association have criticised the auction process for being “archaic and deeply humiliating”. Boo Hoo.
Well, the auction works for me. You might not agree with the eye-watering sums being p...