Yuvraj Singh’s auction price was market determined: Delhi Daredevils CEO

NEW DELHI: Delhi Daredevils CEO Hemant Dua on Monday said that it was IPL market that decided Yuvraj Singh’s price of Rs 16 crore and the franchise is firmly backing the ageing star despite his failure to turn the team’s fortunes in the ongoing eighth edition of the league.

Yuvraj has managed only 205 runs at a dismal average of 18.63 from 12 games and DD are practically out of contention for a place in the playoff.

“I think we talk about Rs 14 crore-Rs 16 crore but that’s all a market place. As Yuvraj had rightly said (in Vizag) that he never asked for that price. It was a market place,” DD CEO Dua said during an interaction where he analysed the team’s performance in the current season.

He did state that they would have ideally liked to get him for lesser amount but once bidding started they had to go all out.

“Would we have liked it to be Rs 16 crores? No, as a franchise, I would want it to be as less as possible, right. But there is an opposition (rival franchises), which is there and they want the price to go up. So as I said, it was market determined,” Dua explained.

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