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You have decided to run a player auction for your cricket tournament. Now you need software to manage it. A Google search gives you generic auction platforms (b…
Why Most Teams Blow Their Budget by Round Three Every local cricket auction follows the same pattern. The first marquee player comes up - a known batsman who av…
The Auction Craze That Took Over Indian Cricket Walk into any corporate park in Bengaluru or Pune on a Friday evening, and chances are someone's planning an auc…
The Projector Moment There's a moment in every well-run auction when the room shifts. The auctioneer announces a player's name, and instead of reading stats off…
The IPL auction is a spectacle - Rs 25 crore bids, live television, war rooms with spreadsheets. You are not running the IPL. But you can absolutely run a playe…
The base price is the first number a player sees in an auction, and it shapes everything that follows. Set it too high and good players go unsold because teams…
Every cricket fan in India has watched an IPL auction and thought, "What if we did this for our Sunday league?" The answer is: you can, and it is easier than yo…
When you are organizing a team-based tournament and need to divide a player pool into balanced squads, you have two main options: an auction (players are bid on…
Nothing kills a tournament faster than a rigged auction. If players believe the fix was in - that certain players were steered to certain teams, that budget rul…
Box cricket is the great equalizer of Indian cricket. You do not need a full ground, a leather ball, or eleven players per side. A caged net, a tennis ball, and…
A local cricket auction in Ahmedabad set up a YouTube live stream for their 80-player auction. They pointed a phone camera at the projector screen, used a Bluet…
The Ground Reality When the WPL launched in 2023, it did something the BCCI had been struggling with for years - it made women's cricket visible. Not just on TV…