India, Oct. 1 -- The ILT20 is all set to stage its first-ever player auction today at Four Seasons, Jumeirah Beach, Dubai. Ravichandran Ashwin tops the catalogue of players at the maximum base price of $ 120,000. However, he is not the only Indian player registered for this auction. Names like Ankit Rajput, Priyank Panchal, Siddharth Kaul, and Piyush Chawla will also be going under the hammer this afternoon. Also, the Sharjah Warriorz have signed Dinesh Karthik in the pre-auction window.

The pool of players also includes several Pakistani internationals like Fakhar Zaman, Saim Ayub, Mohammad Nawaz, Naseem Shah, and Faheem Ashraf. This actually means that a franchise could stack Indian and Pakistani players in the same squad, resulting in...