What A difference a year makes.It was perhaps the first time in 10 years that Richard Madley had sounded like he actually cared about a player’s fate at the IPL auction. English pacer Tymal Mills had gone from making franchises break their bank and earning a whopping Rs 12 crore contract in 2017 to inciting yawns and disinterested browsing of the phones in the auction hall a year later on Sunday. And even Madley could not, for a change, help but acknowledge his astonishment at Mills fall from glory. Despite having become such an indelible part of the IPL at least for those two days where his hammer decides the fate of so many cricketers around the world the affable auctioneer has after all come across as its executioner. He is gone about his job so dispassionately that you wonder whether he is heard of even one of the players, the really high-profile ones included, that he coaxes the franchises to bid for every year. That is perhaps the reason he is so good at what he does.