2013 Hockey India League players' auction for an Indian player was 2,800 and for overseas player was 5,000 under which franchise owners could not bid. The franchise owners made silent bids for each of the five marquee players before the actual auction begun. Hockey India then revealed which marquee player will lead which franchise based on the maximum bids by all the owners. Each team's marquee player got a contract worth at least 115 per cent of the highest successful bid for a player of that team in the auction if the silent bid is not worth more than this amount. Sandeep Singh was bought by
Akanksha Singh Akanksha Singh Akanksha Singh (born 7 September 1989) in Varanasi Uttar Pradesh) is an Indian basketball player and captain of India Women's National Basketball Team. She has played for the national team since 2004. She and her sisters, Divya Singh, Prashanti Singh, and Pratima Singh, are known as "fantastic four" of Delhi women’s basketballers and also known as the "Singh Sisters". In 2010, Akanksha was awarded the Most Valuable Player in India’s first Professional Basketball league, MBPL 2010. Her name then, went on to be forever cemented in the Indian Basketball history books as one of the first ever Top