By Matt Hughes Indian Premier League (IPL) champions Kolkata Knight Riders and the Chennai Super Kings are battling it out to buy the Hundred franchise Manchester Originals in a significant boost for England cricket chiefs’ much-maligned sales process. Former IPL chairman Lalit Modi slammed the auction as “a big fat Ponzi scheme” and dismissed the Hundred as “a struggling non-starter league” in a series of social media posts last month, but there is huge interest from India despite his explosive claims. Modi was particularly scornful of the Manchester Originals, claiming that the Old Trafford-…