Yuvraj was released to exhaust other team’s purse, says RCB director

RCB director P A Murali on Monday said the strategy behind releasing Yuvraj Singh was to ensure that the purse of other teams’ are exhausted which would help them get better cricketers for IPL 8. “The basic strategy to leave Yuvraj was to ensure that the purse of other teams are also defeated so that you are able to get better players while going forward,” he told reporters here at the IPL-8 auction here. However, Murali said the team would have liked to have Yuvraj back in the squad but unfortunately it did not materialise.