Loudon for IPL?

Well, this story is entirely fictitious and not based in reality. Following the news that there will be a further IPL auction next week, which is expected to contain some as yet unknown, non-centrally contracted English based players I got to thinking about who these players might be.

It seems unlikely that they would be current contracted county players as they would require one of these fast-becoming famous, non-objection certificates, from their county. (Which incidentally I see as making it into the Oxford English by the end of the year, never mind Facebook, or IPhone, Non-Objection Certificate will be the word of 2008). Taking aside fully contracted players, that then, surely only leaves non-contracted county players, or ones signed on some kind of dodgy contract, specifically I would think performance/appearance related contracts. The theory being that if the county are showing less faith in said player then the contract must be easier to break on the part of the player. There may also be one or two players who as yet are not formally signed up to play for their county for the coming season.

This reasonable train of logic then led me onto conclude that Alex Loudon is going to take a holiday from his new job in the city and go and collect a tidy paycheck to play for the Rajasthan Royals. Remember, you read it here first.