Richard Madley has been one of the Indian Premier League’s most popular faces over the years, with the prolific auctioneer and his gavel grabbing a lot of attraction in the Indian media. Madley has been the auctioneer at the IPL from the outset, until 2019, serving the league for 11 years. He was later replaced by Hugh Edmeades, a fellow Britisher of Madley with great experience in fine-arts auctioneering. He has previously expressed his disappointment having been sacked out of the blue, despite serving the tournament so well.