Who is Mallika Sagar? Everything to know about the first-ever Auctioneer of Women’s IPL 2023

Apart from the inaugural edition of WIPL, BCCI’s move to go for a Woman auctioneer is widely acclaimed

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The history is in making at the Jio Convention Centre in Mumbai where the first-ever IPL Women’s Auction is underway. The owners of all five franchises gathered to bid for some really talented players in order to constitute a strong team that will enter the inaugural edition of the tournament.

The WIPL auction is going to be special for Indian Cricket and of course for World Cricket in many ways. As the proceedings go by we have even more, special moments going down under with a woman auctioneer.

In what comes as one of the most-appreciated steps taken by the BCCI, India’s Mallika Sagar is at the podium but who is she, with the IPL auction for women down here we present to you everything about her.

Who is Mallika Sagar?

Mallika is an art collector from Mumbai and also a consultant to Modern and Contemporary Indian art. She is also a partner with the Art India consultant firm.

She holds vast experience in conducting auctions with Pundoles (an art gallery) in Mumbai. When it comes to sport-related events, Mallika conducted the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) players’ auction in 2021. However, it’s her debut in cricketing auctions. Her career took off at Christie’s in 2001 when she became the first woman auctioneer of Indian Origin over there.

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Mallika is also the first Indian individual to conduct an auction in an Indian T20 league. Over the due course of time, the likes of Richard Madley and Hugh Edmeades have conducted all the IPL auctions to date.

While talking to the media she said, “I’m very honoured to be asked and very proud to be doing it. Hopefully, it would a beginning of a very good relationship.”

Taking assistance from IPL auctioneer Hugh Edmeades:

WIPL is going to be a whole new experience for Mallika, she even informed the media that she had viewed several videos of Edmeades. “Hugh was very kind and sent me a very nice e-mail to say if I ever needed help I can always reach out to him.

I did watch the previous videos and those were immensely helpful. Because the process is obviously very different from an art auction. So, I definitely relied on Hugh’s expertise and experience from previous years to figure out what best to do,” Mallika said.


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