THE GREAT IPL AUCTION
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Cricket goes under the hammer, players sold out
Published on Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:09, Updated on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:24 in Sports section
Tags: Indian Premier League, Players Auction , Mumbai
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Mumbai: Suave India skipper Mahendra Dhoni and Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds went for astronomical amounts as the Indian Premier League (IPL) conducted the much hyped auction of top international players in Mumbai.
Dhoni, who led India to a tremendous triumph in the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa last year, was picked by Chennai Superkings for a whopping $ 1.5 million (Rs 6 crore). The surprise of the day though was Symonds, who was bought by Hyderabad for $ 1.35 million (Rs 5.4 crore) despite being unpopular in the country because of his recent spat with Indian players.
Dhoni, the only top Indian player not to figure among the icon players (who are not up for bids and will play for their home teams) was a prime property and was lapped up in what was the highest bid in the first list of players and gave the team the big Indian name they missed owing to the absence of an icon player.
PRICE OF TOP PLAYERS | |||
| Players | Teams | Base Price | Auctioned Price |
| MS Dhoni | Chennai | $400000 | $1500000 |
| Muralitharan | Chennai | $250000 | $600000 |
| Anil Kumble | Bangalore | $250000 | $500000 |
| Harbhajan | Mumbai | $250000 | $850000 |
| Adam Gilchrist | Hyderabad | $390000 | $700000 |
| Shane Warne | Jaipur | $400000 | $450000 |
| Shoaib Akhtar | Kolkata | $225500 | $425000 |
| M Jayawardene | Mohali | $250500 | $475000 |
| Sanath Jayasurya | Mumbai | $250500 | $975000 |
| Kumar Sangakkara | Mohali | $250500 | $700000 |
| Ricky Ponting | Kolkata | $340000 | $400000 |
| Brett Lee | Mohali | $340000 | $90000 |
| Andrew Symonds | Hyderabad | $340000 | $1.35m |
| Daniel Vittori | Delhi | $225000 | $325000 |
| Matthew Hayden | Chennai | $125000 | $375000 |
| Brendon McCullum | Kolkata | $175000 | $700000 |
| Jacob Oram | Chennai | $200000 | $675000 |
| Steven Fleming | Chennai | $340,000 | $350000 |
| Graeme Smith | Jaipur | $220,000 | $475000 |
| H Gibbs | Hyderabad | $220,000 | $575000 |
| Chris Gayle | Kolkata | $340,000 | $700000 |
| Shoaib Malik | Delhi | $292,500 | $500000 |
| Shahid Afridi | Hyderabad | $292500 | $675000 |
| Younis Khan | Jaipur | $292500 | $225000 |
| Md Asif | Delhi | $292500 | $650000 |
| Kallis | Bangalore | $195,000 | $900000 |
| Zaheer Khan | Bangalore | $200,000 | $450000 |
| Sreesanth | Mohali | $200,000 | $625000 |
| Dinesh Karthik | Delhi | $200,000 | $525000 |
| AB deVilliers | Delhi | $175,000 | $300000 |
| Parthiv Patel | Chennai | $200,000 | $325000 |
| Kamran Akmal | Jaipur | $150,000 | $150000 |
| Boucher | Bangalore | $175,000 | $450000 |
| Albie Morkel | Chennai | $200000 | $675000 |
| Ajit Agarkar | Kolkata | $200000 | $350000 |
| Shaun Pollock | Mumbai | $200000 | $550000 |
| Irfan Pathan | Mohali | $175000 | $925000 |
| Scott Styris | Hyderabad | $145000 | $175000 |
| T Dilshan | Delhi | $150000 | $250000 |
| C White | Bangalore | $175000 | $500000 |
| Yusuf Pathan | Jaipur | $125000 | $475000 |
| Joginder Sharma | Chennai | $125,000 | $225000 |
| Uthappa | Mumbai | $200000 | $800000 |
| Rohit Sharma | Hyderabad | $150000 | $750000 |
| Laxman | Hyderabad | $250000 | $375000 |
| Gambhir | Delhi | $175000 | $725000 |
| Jaffer | Bangalore | $125,000 | $150000 |
| Kaif | Jaipur | $125,000 | $675000 |
| Raina | Chennai | $125,000 | $650000 |
| Tiwari | Delhi | $125000 | $675000 |
| Chamara | Hyderabad | $100000 | $100000 |
| D Hussey | Kolkata | $125000 | $625000 |
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This will be the beginning of the DECLINE of International cricket
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The rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer....
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I am surprised to see most of the comments being negative, what is the fault of the player if they
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Big fish are playing in the sea while all the small fish are getting washed away in the rivers. As
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We have nobody to blame than ourselves for all this wasting of money. Its we Indian who are responsible for
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