Indian Cricketers Top T20 League Bids as Youth Beats Experience
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Young Indian cricketers grabbed the highest bids as Bollywood stars and Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, built their Indian Premier League teams at a weekend auction.
Actor Shah Rukh Khan paid a record $2.4 million for Gautam Gambhir, 29, a left-handed batsman, to play in his Kolkata Knight Riders team and $2.1 million for all-rounder Yusuf Pathan. Rohit Sharma, 23, went to Ambani’s Mumbai Indians for $2 million as the competition looks to shake off a season of financial scandal.