Matt Prior, the England Test wicketkeeper, will not be appearing in this year's Indian Premier League. Photograph: Nigel French/PA Matt Prior and Ravi Bopara, the only two English players in the Indian Premier League auction, were both snubbed as the franchises preferred to throw their money at Australians with much less international experience. Prior had a base price of $200,000 (£128,000) and Bopara only $100,000 (£64,000), but both were ignored while Glenn Maxwell, a 24-year-old off-spinning all-rounder from Victoria, was bought for an astonishing $1m by Mumbai Indians. Mumbai might have had second thoughts as shortly after their bid, Maxwell was hit for four consecutive sixes by the...
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