Indian Premier League will include nine English players

Nine English players are expected to be included in the Indian Premier League auction later this month after league officials predictably abandoned a tactical threat to blacklist them because of doubts about their availability.

The final list of those up for auction – only a few of whom will win contracts alongside the star names already signed up – is scheduled to be announced tomorrow after the IPL chairman, Lalit Modi, had briefly threatened that England's players would be removed from the list.

[readon1 url="https://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jan/07/ipl-auctions-english-players"]Source: guardian.co.uk[/readon1]