Cricketing Icons Under Auctioner' Hammer

We have witnessed the sight of many Cricketing Icons being placed on auction for IPL.The highest bidder can take a player to his or her team for one season of IPL.The whole world seems to be rejoicing.The players of course have reason to be happy.They are making a lot of hay when the sun is shining....ie when they have bidders who are willing to bid for them.People sympathise with Sourav Ganguly and Brian Lara for whom no bidder bothered.Harsh reality of the market economy, your past doesnot matter,only your current utility matters
But i see a silver lining in the otherwise cloudy scenario.Our own great Sachin Tendulkar who refused to come under the auctioners hammer,holding his dignity up,declaring to the world that he cannot be baught or sold.A counter arguement can be raised that he has plenty of wealth and hence he can be indiferent to the mony which is the prime motivation of IPL.This arguement has no substence,since the others who gladly came under the auctioners hammer were by no strech of imagination lacking in financial resource,match fee,modelling income and even remuneration for attending parties thrown by the fithy rich and enormously snobbish.
Issue that I want to raise is that of the self respect of the players who allow themselves to be bought and sold.They remind me of slaves who were bought and sold in olden days at the slave bazars when slavary was legal in the world.A harsh comparison will be to that of women in the oldest profession who are willing to share the bed with whoever is willing to pay the right price.Their price vary according to their skill,they also face "no bidders syndrome"like Sourav Da and Lara at the end of their career.
I have no confution about the very sound principle that sportsmen(including sportswomen)are the wealth of the universe and as humen beings,they also need to have acess to good things in life.Ther has to be mechanisms to suppotr,encouage and motivate them.My only objection is in making them commodities and subjecting them to humiliation by placing them under the auctioners hammer and other still worse similies