It is March, and London is submerged by snow. Omar Khan has no time to enjoy it. The Guyana Amazon Warriors team manager is sitting on the team’s table - which, rather incongruously, is located at a screen of the Vue cinema in Fulham - plotting. A few hours later, the 2018 Caribbean Premier League draft will begin.
Khan and Dr. Ranjisinghi Ramroop, the team owner, are planning for the next three hours. They hope it will ultimately turn Guyana, runners-up in three of the CPL’s five seasons, into champions.
The CPL uses a draft system, in which each team gets one pick per round; prices are determined by which round a player is signed in, making for a more ordered process than teams bidding directly...