Brad Haddin’s spent plenty of time as an assistant coach in the Indian Premier League, so Adam Peacock asked him on Willow Talk to sum up the chaos of an IPL auction in 60 seconds.
No chance in hell could Hadds contain it to a minute.
There were two occasions in which absolute madness broke out that stood out to Hadds.
One was where Hadds and the coaches spent three days locked in a room together doing their draft prep, only for the team’s CEO to barge in mid-auction.
And the other was when Ricky Ponting’s Delhi Capitals picked up Marcus Stoinis in 2019 for a whopping sum of US$980,000.
It was never really meant to be, according to Hadds…
WHEN ABSOLUTE MADNESS BROKE OUT IN THE IPL:
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