India, Sept. 9 -- Two weeks and two days after becoming head coach of the Pretoria Capitals in the SA20, Sourav Ganguly is up and running. The former India captain, sitting at the auction, convinced the franchise to shell out a record sum of 16.5 million rand to acquire Dewald Brevis at the Season 4 SA20 Player auctions. Brevis, 22, expected to be the costliest buy, lived up to the billing, surpassing Aiden Markram to whip out a staggering amount, whose Indian conversion comes to more than Rs.8 crore.

Right from the time Brewis' name came up, the South African youngster immediately triggered a bidding war between Joburg Super Kings and the Paarl Royals. Stephen Fleming and Kumar Sangakkara went at it rigorously, to the extent that within...