Chetan Narula looks at the growth of the world’s premier T20 competition and analyses how it has become a self-financing behemoth that bestrides the game

Chetan Narula

Spending power: But Yuvraj Singh was still a snip

Back in December, at the 2019 players’ auctions, Yuvraj Singh went unsold in the first round. Even at his ‘low’ base price of around £90,000, no franchise fancied him. It wasn’t surprising – for at least the last two years, Singh has come across as a spent force.
Then, something surprising happened when unsold players were called...