All 8 England players snubbed for IPL 2010

Of the list of 51 players who would be available for auction ahead of the third season of the Indian Premier League, the English players were notable absentees.IPL`s list for who will be involved in the auction for the 2010 season sans English cricketers is because of what league commissioner Lalit Modi called “new conditions imposed by the ECB”.

The original list of 97 players, released on Saturday, was pared down to 96 after Chris Cairns` name was removed; the current list comprises whom the franchises have specifically selected for the auction.Whether or not any of the 8 England’s players would be added before the auction, scheduled for January 19, was unclear even as the IPL website claimed that the list released on Wednesday was the “complete list”.

Jonathan Trott and Eoin Morgan were the major England players to be snubbed. Tim Bresnan, Anthony McGrath, Monty Panesar, Adil Rashid, Usman Afzaal and James Foster were also on the list of players deemed unworthy by the IPL franchises. However, Trott and Morgan were expected to be available for only three of the six weeks of the tournament, which possibly reducing their attraction to bidders.

The revised list features 11 Australian players, 9 from South Africa, 8 each from Sri Lanka and West Indies, 7 from Pakistan, 4 New Zealanders and 1 each from Bangladesh, Canada, Holland and Zimbabwe.Prominent among those who`ve made the cut include Kieron Pollard West Indies, Shane Bond New Zealand, Mohammed Aamer, Shahid Afridi and Umar Akmal Pakistan, Peter Siddle, Brad Haddin and Doug Bollinger Australia and Shakib Al Hasan Bangladesh.

The auction will be on a smaller scale to previous years, with a maximum spending limit of $750,000 £468,000 on players, as opposed to $2m last year.The IPL, which this year runs from 12 March to 25 April, will expand to 10 franchises next year, when all players will again be up for auction.

via All 8 England players snubbed for IPL-III.