Bipin Dani
With a wealth of knowledge and vast experience in auctioning, the Britishman Hugh Edmeades is on his way to India.
This international auctioneer will be in Banga-lore on Sunday and will be busy for the IPL auction on two days in the coming week.
Speaking exclusively over the telephone from London, he said, “This will be my 4th IPL auction, but my 1st mega auction”.
“It will be a mega auction for the players be-cause “there are something like 590 players in the auction at the moment, with 220 positions to be filled. In my earlier IPL auctions, there were about 300 in the auction, but because of the teams being able to retain as many players as they liked, there were only 65 positions to be filled”.
“I am confident the auction will be completed in the two allocated days”. Explaining about the Covid protocol, he says, a”I have been triple vaccinated. I have just had a negative Fit to Fly Covid 19 RT PCR test. I will be tested at Bangalore airport and then will start carrying out my quarantining in my hotel room”.
“I will be wearing a mask in public places. The BCCI haven’t fully briefed me on the precautions they will be insisting on during the actual auction days”.
Hugh Edmeades is only the second person to have been given the honour and privilege of con-ducting this prestigious auction. Earlier, the task was being handled by another Britisher Richard Madley.
