> IPL Player Auction : Dhoni, Ishant, Symonds roll in cash

THe first day of the IPL auctions are over.
The owners have made their bids and the best of the best in the minds of the promoters have been grabbed.

Mahinder Singh Dhoni is the costliest cricketer in the World!
Dhoni was taken at a whopping 6.2 crore Indian rupees by the Chennai Team.
Indian T20 stars were also high in demand along with the Pace hope Ishant Sharma who got about 3.4 crore.



Squads as of now:

Jaipur Shane Warne (US$450,000), Graeme Smith (US$475,000), Younis Khan (US$225,000), Kamran Akmal (US$150,000), Yusuf Pathan (US$475,000), Mohammad Kaif (US$675,000), Munaf Patel (US$275,000), Justin Langer (US$200,000)

Chennai MS Dhoni (US$1.5 million), Muttiah Muralitharan (US$600,000), Matthew Hayden (US$375,000), Jacob Oram (US$675,000), Stephen Fleming (US$350,000), Parthiv Patel (US$325,000), Joginder Sharma (US$225,000), Albie Morkel (US$675,000), Suresh Raina (US$650,000), Makhaya Ntini (US$200,000), Michael Hussey (US$350,000)

Mumbai Sachin Tendulkar (icon), Sanath Jayasuriya (US$975,000), Harbhajan Singh (US$850,000), Shaun Pollock (US$550,000), Robin Uthappa (US$800,000), Lasith Malinga (US$350,000), Dilhara Fernando (US$150,000), Loots Bosman (US$175,000)

Bangalore Rahul Dravid (icon), Anil Kumble (US$500,000), Jacques Kallis (US$900,000), Zaheer Khan (US$450,000), Mark Boucher (US$450,000), Cameron White (US$500,000), Wasim Jaffer (US$150,000), Dale Steyn (US$325,000), Nathan Bracken (US$325,000), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (US$200,000)

Hyderabad Adam Gilchrist (US$700,000), Andrew Symonds (US$1.35 million), Herschelle Gibbs (US$575,000), Shahid Afridi (US$675,000), Scott Styris (US$175,000), VVS Laxman (US$375,000), Rohit Sharma (US$750,000), Chamara Silva (US$100,000), RP Singh (US$875,000), Chaminda Vaas (US$200,000), Nuwan Zoysa (US$110,000)

Mohali Yuvraj Singh (icon), Mahela Jayawardene (US$475,000), Kumar Sangakkara (US$700,000), Brett Lee (US$900,000), Sreesanth (US$625,000), Irfan Pathan (US$925,000), Ramesh Powar (US$170,000), Piyush Chawla (US$400,000), Simon Katich (US$200,000), Ramnaresh Sarwan (US$225,000)

Kolkata Sourav Ganguly (icon), Shoaib Akhtar (US$425,000), Ricky Ponting (US$400,000), Brendon McCullum (US$700,000), Chris Gayle (US$800,000), Ajit Agarkar (US$330,000), David Hussey (US$675,000), Ishant Sharma (US$950,000), Murali Kartik (US$425,000), Umar Gul (US$150,000), Tatenda Taibu (US$125,000)

Delhi Virender Sehwag (icon), Daniel Vettori (US$625,000), Shoaib Malik (US$500,000), Mohammad Asif (US$650,000), AB de Villiers (US$300,000), Dinesh Karthik (US$525,000), Farveez Maharoof (US$225,000), Tillakaratne Dilshan (US$250,000), Manoj Tiwary (US$675,000), Gautam Gambhir (US$725,000), Glenn McGrath (US$350,000)

kaif for 650000$? how come?
dada wanted gilli but i think they wasted too much on sharma.
But this contract is for how many years?

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Agnel's Signature:

Manoy Tiwari $675000 :cazy: ???

Whatever... Even If they Don't play proper Cricket these days they get a lot of money....

Disappointed with my bangalore Team. Kallis is the only noticable player in the team that was picked yesterday. Chandrapaul too is fine, but Bangalore team is already looking weak on paper.

BTW did u notice, David hussey was auctioned for almost twice the amount than his brother Michael hussy

The stupidiest thing is that there is no cricketing logic in all this
Ponting is a far better player than Manoj Tiwari but if one looks at the list, you would wonder otherwise.

Well it just looks as if they are banking on the star appeal rather than on skills. The more controversial a player, the costlier

This whole thing is gonna fail badly, just like ICL.. Ppl want to watch international matches..not some city vs city match...no one has tht mu7ch time to bunk office and college to go and watch city matches..

Cricket is not Football... and while club >>> internationals in football, the same cannot be said about cricket..

BCCI is filling up its coffers fater than ever b4 by making fool of those rich idiots... i can only imagine what will be left with the owners after paying the cricketing star's enormous bills, and paying bcci a good percentage of the collection... advertising and promotion is their only means to gain something for themselves. But it remains to be seen if the advertisers wud be willing to shell out millions for some stupid city match..

BCCI has seriously done a 'Heads i win, tails u lose' with those obscenely rich freaks. Time will come and they'll understand.

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Private Ryan's Signature:

there were some mindless bids, i believe.

but few international stars got less than they deserve because of their uncertainty of participation in this years edition, most notably ponting. May be symonds got more as franchisee could be aware of him bunking the pakistan tour.

this amount is for 3 years, in between during transfer windows players can be traded.

the way media hype is generated i am sure for the first year atleast it will be worth watchin.

the way prize money is being declared i dont think it will go dwon the drain like club football this may also become a grand success.

only blip i see is the broadcaster had it been ESPN-STAR i would have loved to catch on 8pm matches.

: (: no::unde r: