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Mumbai Indians eliminate Kolkata Knight Riders in second playoff

admin — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:52:54 +0000

Mumbai Indians eliminated Kolkata Knight Riders in second playoff of IPL 4 to move to the third playoff where they face Royal Challengers Bangalore in a clash for the IPL 4 position. Mumbai Indians skipper Sachin Tendulkar won the toss and put KKR to bat. All the top 4 KKR batsmen went out in single digits but Ryan Ten Doeschate played a brilliant knock of 70 runs off 49 balls to guide KKR to 147/7 in 20 overs. Munaf Patel took 3 wickets for Mumbai Indians. In reply, Aiden Blizzard (51 runs off 30 balls) and Sachin Tendulkar (36 runs off 28 balls) went off to a flyer and James Franklin (29 runs off 25 balls) contributed as they reached 148/6 in 19.2 overs. Shakib Al Hasan and Jacques Kallis took 2 wickets each for KKR. Munaf Patel was awarded the Man of the Match for his brilliant spell of 3 wickets for 27 runs in 4 overs.

Kolkata Knight Riders defeat Sahara Pune Warriors by 7 wickets

admin — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:07:42 +0000

Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sahara Pune Warriors by 7 wickets at Navi Mumbai as they finalized their spot in the playoffs of IPL 4. KKR captain Gautam Gambhir won the toss and put Pune Warriors to bat. None of the Sahara Pune Warriors batsmen scored big as KKR bowlers bowled well and restricted PW to only 118/7 in 20 overs. Yusuf Pathan, Shakib Al Hassan and Lakshmipathy Balaji took 2 wickets each for KKR. In reply, Gautam Gambhir (54 runs n.o. off 46 balls) lead from the front and was supported by Yusuf Pathan (29 runs off 25 balls) and Manoj Tiwary (24 runs off 24 balls) as they cruised to 119/3 in 16.4 overs. Yusuf Pathan was awarded the Man of his Match for his all round performance including his 2 wickets for 23 runs in 4 overs, knock of 29 runs off 25 balls and catch of Saurav Ganguly in the field.

Gayle century pulverizes KKR in his first game for RCB

admin — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:32:56 +0000

Chris Gayle joined Royal Challengers Bangalore as the replacement for Dirk Nannes after he was dropped from the WI squad. But he showed why he is one of the greatest hitters of world cricket as he scored a quickfire century including 7 sixes as KKR had to face yet another brutal defeat at Eden Gardens. RCB captain Daniel Vettori won the toss and put KKR to bat. Kolkata Knight Riders reached a very good total as they scored 171/5 in their 20 overs with important contributions from Gautam Gambhir (48 runs off 38 balls), Yusuf Pathan (46 runs off 24 balls) and Jacques Kallis (40 runs off 42 balls). In reply, Chris Gayle almost single handedly won the game for RCB in his IPL 4 debut as he scored 102 runs in just 55 balls. Bangalore reached 175/1 in just 18.1 overs as Gayle made the target look very easy with the support of Tilakaratne Dilshan (38 runs off 31 balls) and Virat Kohli (30 runs off 23 balls). Chris Gayle was awarded the Man of the Match for his blazing century.

Kochi Tuskers Kerala beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 6 runs

admin — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:42:05 +0000

Kochi Tuskers Kerala beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 6 runs in a closely contested match at Eden Gardens. KKR captain Gautam Gambhir won the toss and decided to field. KKR bowled well as Kochi managed to only reach 132/7 in their 20 overs with nobody scoring even 30+ for KTK. Yusuf Pathan and Shakib Al Hassan took 3 wickets each for KKR. In reply, KKR also kept on losing wickets regularly and even a valiant effort by Manoj Tiwary (46 runs off 51 balls) could not help as KKR only managed to reach 126/9 in 20 overs. RP Singh and Ravindra Jadeja took two wickets each for the Kochi team. Kochi captain Jayawardena was awarded the Man of the Match for his overall performance with the bat, on the field and for his excellent captaincy.

Kolkata Knight Riders steamrolls Rajasthan Royals at Eden Gardens with 6.1 overs to spare

admin — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:44:52 +0000

Kolkata Knight Riders thrashed Rajasthan Royals at Eden Gardens with 6.1 overs to spare as they topped the points table perhaps for the first time in IPL history. After the consecutive wins in the last two matches, it was hardly a surprise that Eden Gardens was almost suddenly filled up today after the low attendance in the previous matches which many felt was due to the “Dada effect”. Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir won the toss and put Rajasthan Royals to bat. An awesome bowling and fielding display by KKR players and a pathetic batting display by Royals made the RR fold up in just 81 runs all out in 15.2 overs. Lakshmipathy Balaji (3 wickets for 15 runs) and Shakib Al Hassan (2 wickets for 21 runs) were the pick of the bowlers for KKR. In reply, KKR lost a couple of early wickets but KKR skipper Gautam Gambhir (35 runs off 35 balls) and Manoj Tiwary (30 runs off 26 balls) played steady knocks as Kolkata Knight Riders reached 85/2 in just 13.5 overs. Balaji was awarded Man of the Match for his brilliant bowling.

Kolkata Knight Riders cruise over Rajasthan Royals at Jaipur

admin — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:31:01 +0000

Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Rajasthan Royals convincingly at their home fortress Jaipur with 9 balls to spare. Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir won the toss and put Rajasthan Royals into bat. Both the teams got more class coming into the team as Aussie pacer Brett Lee and Bangladesh captain and all rounder Shakib-Al-Hasan joined the KKR team while Aussie all rounder Shane Watson joined the Royals. However, Rajasthan Royals did not open with Watson which was quite amazing as he is a regular opener and was in current form recently including his 16 sixes in a match of the Aussie-Bangla ODI series. Rahul Dravid (35 runs off 34 balls), Ashok Menaria (27 runs off 21 balls), Ross Taylor (35 runs off 25 balls) and Shane Watson (22 runs off 13 balls) contributed as Rajasthan Royals reached a competitive total of 159/4 in their 20 overs. Shakib and Yusuf Pathan took two wickets each for KKR. Kolkata Knight Riders in reply cruised to 160 in just 18.3 overs losing just 1 wicket as Jacques Kallis (80 runs off 65 balls) and Gautam Gambhir (75 runs off 44 balls) thrashed the Rajasthan bowlers. Gambhir was also awarded the Man of the Match for his knock.

Chennai Super Kings beats Kolkata Knight Riders in closely fought opener

admin — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:04:45 +0000

Chennai Super Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders in a closely fought opening match of IPL 2011 Season 4. The match went to the wire but it was Captain Cool Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his team which kept cool and emerged as winners. Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat. Anirudha Srikkanth opened the batting with Vijay for Chennai while Iqbal Abdulla opened the batting for Kolkata Knight Riders. Abdulla got Vijay in the first over but then KKR were terrible in the field and Yusuf Pathan dropped two catches while Morgan dropped one. Anirudha Srikkanth scored 64 runs off 55 balls while Raina, Dhoni and Morkel contributed with scores of 33(29 balls), 29(21 balls) and 15(9 balls) respectively as CSK scored 153/4 in 20 overs. Kallis scalped 2 wickets for KKR while Abdulla and Yusuf Pathan chipped in with 1 wicket each. Kolkata started very steadily in reply and got a brilliant opening partnership of 64 runs for the opening wicket. After Manvinder Bisla fell in the 9th over, Pathan came in but was also run out on 11 runs with a brilliant throw by Dhoni. Kallis held one end and scored 54 runs off 42 balls but wickets kept falling at regular intervals and KKR could never get any partnership get going. Gautam Gambhir came in at no.6 which was a bit of a surprise but he also could not do much as KKR continued to struggle. Manoj Tiwary hit two consecutive sixes in the 19th over and made it only 9 runs to win from 8 balls. But then he fell at 27 runs off 15 balls and nobody could score the required runs and Chennai Super Kings finally won by 2 runs as KKR could only score 151/7 in their 20 overs. Anirudha Srikkanth was adjudged the man of the match for his match winning knock for CSK. It was interesting match and a fitting opener for IPL T20 Season 4.

IPL announces final squads for IPL 2011 Season 4

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:26:20 +0000

All the 10 teams participating in IPL 2011 Season 4 including the two new entrants Sahara Pune Warriors and Kochi Tuskers Kerala have announced their final list of players in their respective teams. Out of the teams, Sahara Pune Warriors is the only team to have registered their full quota of 30 players in the squad. Delhi Daredevils were also close behind with 29 players while Kochi Tuskers Kerala, Deccan Chargers and Rajasthan Royals named 27 players each in their final squads. Royal Challengers Bangalore listed 25 players and Kings XI Punjab 23 players. Kolkata Knight Riders named the least number of players amongst all the franchisees as they went ahead with only 20 players including 7 foreign players.

In terms of spending, Mumbai Indians were left with only $1739 from their $9 million purse after all their player purchases. Rajasthan Royals were the only franchisee to exhaust their full purse while Deccan Chargers had the maximum amount left of $1.49 million after their player purchases followed by KXIP who had $1.46 million (approx) left.

Here are the full squads of the various IPL teams for IPL 4:

Chennai Super Kings (24): Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravichandran Ashwin, Subramanium Badrinath, Joginder Sharma, Sudeep Tyagi, Abhinav Mukund, Aniruddha Shrikant, Ganapathi Vignesh, K Vasudevdas, Shadb Jakati, Vijaykumar Yomahesh, (Foreign) Albie Morkel, Michael Hussey, Dwayne Bravo, Doug Bollinger, Scott Styris, Ben Hilfenhaus, Nuwan Kulasekera, Suraj Randiv, George Bailey, Faf du Plessis

Mumbai Indians (23): Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Rohit Sharma, Munaf Patel, Abu Nechim Ahmed, Aditya Tare, Ali Murtuza, Ambati Rayudu, Dhawal Kulkarni, Pawan Suyal, Rajagopal Sathish, Surul Kanwar, Surya Kumar Yadav, T Suman, Yazvendra Singh Chahal (Foreign) Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Andrew Symonds, Davy Jacobs, James FRanklin, Moises Henriques, Alden Blizzard, Dilhara Fernando

Kolkata Knight Riders (20): Gautam Gambhir, Yusuf Pathan, Manoj Tiwary, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Jaidev Unadkat, Iqbal Abdulla, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manvinder Singh Bisla, Pradeep Sangwan, Rajat Bhatia, Sarabjit Ladda, Shami Ahmed, Shreevats Goswami (Foreign) Jacques Kallis, Brad Haddin, Shakib Al Hassan, Brett Lee, Eoin Morgan, Ryan ten Doeschate, James Pattinson.

Sahara Pune Warriors (30): Yuvraj Singh, Robin Uthappa, Ashish Nehra, Murali Kartik, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Bhuvenshwar Kumar, Dheeraj Jadhav, Ekalavya Dwivedi, Ganesh Gaikwad, Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Harshad Khadiwale, Kamran Khan, Manish Pandey, Mithun Manhas, Mohnish MIshra, Rahul Sharma, Sachin Rana, Shrikant Wagh, Shrikant Mundhe, Imtiyaz Ahmed (Foreign) Graeme Smith, Tim Paine, Angelo Mathews, Nathan McCullum, Callum Ferguson, Wayne Parnell, Mitchell Marsh, Jerome Taylor, Alfonso Thomas, Jesse Ryder

Kochi Tuskers Kerala (27): VVS Laxman, S Sreesanth, RP Singh, Parthiv Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Ramesh Powar, R Vinay Kumar, B Akhil, Chandan Madan, Deepak Chowghule, Kedar Jadhav, Raiphi Gomez, Sushant Marathe, Tanmay Srivastava, Y Gnanswara Rao, Yashpal Singh, Prashant Padmanabahan, (Foreign) Mahela Jayawardene, Brendon McCullum, Steven Smith, Muttiah Muralitharan, Brad Hodge, Thisara Perera, Steve O’Keefe, Owais Shah, Michael Klinger, John Hastings

Royal Challengers Bangalore (25): Virat Kohli, Zaheer Khan, Saurabh Tiwary, Cheteshwar Pujara, Abhimanyu Mithun, Mohammed Kaif, Arun Karthik, CM Gautham, Abrar Kazi, Mayank Agarwal, Bharath Narayan, Raju Bhatkal, Sreenath Aravind, Ryan Ninan, Asad Khan Pathan, (Foreign) Tillekratne Dilshan, AB de Villiers, Daniel Vettori, Dirk Nannes, Charl Langeveldt, LUke Pomersbach, Johan van der Wath, Rilee Rossouw, Nuwan Pradeep, Jonathan Vandiar

Rajasthan Royals (27): Rahul Dravid, Pankaj Singh, Aakash Chopra, Abhishek Raut, Aditya Dole, Ajinkya Rahane, Amit Paunikar, Ashok Menaria, Deepak Chahar, Dishant Yagnik, Faiz Fazal, Nayan Doshi, Pinal Shah, Samad Fallah, Siddharth Trivedi, Stuart Binny, Amit Singh, Dinesh Salunkhe, Swapnil Asnodkar, Sumit Narwal, Ankeet Chavan (Foreign) Shane Warne, Shane Watson, Ross Taylor, Johan BOtha, Paul Collingwood, Shaun Tait

Deccan Chargers (27): Shikhar Dhawan, Ishant Sharma, Pragyan Ojha, Amit Mishra, Manpreet Gony, Akash Bhandari, Anand Rajan, Ankit Nagendra, Arjun Yadav, Ashish Reddy, Bharat Chipli, DB Ravi Teja, Harmeet Singh Bansal, Ishank Jaggi, Ishan Malhotra, Jaydev Shah, Kedar Devdhar, Sunny Sohal (Foreign) Kevin Pietersen, Cameron White, Kumar Sangakkara, JP Duminy, Dale Steyn, Daniel Christian, Chris Lynn, Juan Theron, Michael Lumb

Kings XI Punjab (23): Dinesh Karthik, Abhishek Nayar, Praveen Kumar, Piyush Chawla, Bhargav Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, Love Ablish, Mandeep Singh, Nitin Saini, Paras Dogra, Paul Valthaty, Shalabh Srivastava, Siddharth Chitnis, Sunny Singh, Vikramjeet Malik, Amit Yadav (Foreign) Adam Gilchrist, Shaun Marsh, David Hussey, Stuart Broad, Ryan Harris, Dimitri Masceranhas, Nathan Remington.

Delhi Daredevils (29): Virender Sehwag, Irfan Pathan, Naman Ojha, Ajit Agarkar, Ashok Dinda, Umesh Yadav, Venugopal Rao, Aavishkar Salvi, Prashant Naik, Rajesh Pawar, Robin Bist, S Sriram, Tejashwi Yadav, Unmukt Chand, Varun Aaron, Vikash Mishra, Vivek Yadav, Yogesh Nagar, Shahbaz Nadeem (Foreign) David Warner, James Hopes, Morne Morkel, Aaron Finch, Mathew Wade, Roloef van der Merwe, Andrew McDonald, Travis Birt, Collin Ingram, Robert Frylinck.

IPL 4 auctions live

admin — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 05:44:04 +0000

Welcome everyone to our live coverage of IPL 4 auctions. We start the commentary now.

The auction starts with a lottery by Chirayu Amin who picks up Gautam Gambhir as the first player to be auctioned.

The bidding is intense and it has already reached 2.2 million dollars now for Gambhir. Phew. Finally Gautam Gambhir sold for 2.4 million dollars by Kolkata Knight Riders.

Second auction is for Dilshan. $600,000 bid till now and bidding again going on aggressively. Royal Challengers Bangalore purchases Dilshan for $650,000. That seems to be a good pick.

Zaheer Khan is the next auctions. Bidding going on aggressively again. Royal Challengers Bangalore purchases him for $900,000 USD.

Ross Taylor enters the auctions now. Royal Challengers Bangalore purchases him for $1 million.

Yusuf Pathan enters the auction now. He is bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for $2.1 million.

Kevin Pietersen enters the auction now. Deccan Chargers purchases him for $650,000.

Mahela Jayawardena enters the auction now. Kochi purchases Jayawardena for $1.5 million.

Yuvi enters the auction now. Auction becomes very aggressive again. 1 million already for Yuvi till now and bidding going on aggressively. Yuvraj Singh goes for 1.8 million to Sahara Pune Warriors. Their first purchase and a good purchase at that.

A B De Villiers enters the auction now. A B De Villiers goes to RCB for 1.1 million. Royal Challengers Bangalore seems to on a buying spree and have made most of the purchases in the first session.

There is a 15 minutes break now.

Break over. Ganguly enters the bidding now. Nobody bids for Dada and he goes unsold.

Cameron White enters the auction now. The new Australian T20 captain is also getting some aggressive bidding. Deccan Chargers purchases Cameron White for $1.1 million.

Jacques Kallis enters the auction now. Kolkata Knight Riders purchases Kallis for $1.1 million.

Rohit Sharma enters the auction now. Bidding going on aggressively and it has already reached 1.1 million. Mumbai Indians purchases Rohit Sharma for 2 million. That might have been too aggressive.

Andrew Symonds enters the auction now. Symonds seeing some aggressive bidding between Mumbai and Pune. Mumbai Indians purchases Andrew Symonds for $800,000.

Kumar Sangakkara enters the auction now. Deccan Chargers purchases Sangakkara for $700,000.

Adam Gilchrist enters the auction now. Nobody was bidding initially and it almost seemed he will go unsold. Bidding gradually picking up. Kings XI Punjab purchases him for $900,000.

Rahul Dravid enters the auction now. Another long silence and no bidding till now for Dravid. Rajasthan Royals starts with base price of $400,000. Rajasthan Royals purchases Rahul Dravid for $500,000.

Graeme Smith enters the auction now. After a long wait at last a starting bid from Pune with base price of $400K for Smith. Sahara Pune Warriors purchases Graeme Smith for $500,000.

Robin Uthappa enters the auction now. Aggressive bidding going now and already reaches $1.2 million. Sahara Pune Warriors purchases Robin Uthappa for $2.1 million. Phew. That was huge.

Johan Botha enters the auction now. Rajasthan Royals purchases Johan Botha for $950,000.

VVS Laxman enters the auction now. After a long wait Kochi finally bids base price of $400,000. Kochi purchases VVS Laxman for $400,000.

Daniel Vettori enters the auction now. Again a long wait. Surprising as Vettori is a valuable player and an allrounder. Royal Challengers Bangalore purchases Daniel Vettori for $550,000.

Brendon McCullum enters the auction now. Kochi purchases Brendon McCullum for $475,000. A good pick for sure.

Sreesanth enters the auction now. Very aggressive bidding. Kochi purchases their local boy Sreesanth for $900,000.

Chris Gayle enters the auction now. Again a surprising and long wait for a quality T20 batsman. Chris Gayle goes unsold.

Irfan Pathan enters the auction now. Aggressive bidding for Irfan too. Deccan and Punjab in the final bidding wars after CSK left. Delhi enters the fray at $1.1 million. Delhi Daredevils purchases Irfan Pathan for $1.9 million.

R P Singh enters the auction now. Kochi purchases R P Singh for $500,000.

Lunch Break now.

Lunch Break over now. The auction will start in a few minutes.

Jesse Ryder enters the auction now. Ryder goes unsold.

Herschelle Gibbs enters the auction and also goes unsold.

Michael Hussey enters the auction now. Chennai Superkings purchase him for $425,000.

Shaun Marsh enters the auction now. Kings XI Punjab purchases him for $400,000.

J P Duminy enters the auction now. Deccan Chargers purchases J P Duminy for $300,000.

Shikhar Dhawan enters the auction now. Deccan Chargers purchases Shikhar Dhawan for $300,000.

Saurabh Tiwary enters the auction now. Aggressive bidding going for Tiwary. Royal Challengers Bangalore purchases Saurabh Tiwary for $1.6 million. A bid of controversy there as Mallya was not happy with the auction getting reopened.

David Hussey enters the auction. King XI Punjab purchases David Hussey for $1.4 million.

David Warner enters the auction and Delhi Daredevil purchases him for $750,000.

Brian Lara goes unsold.

Graham Manou enters the auction and goes unsold too.

Parthiv Patel enters the auction and Kochi purchases him for $290,000.

Wriddhiman Saha goes to Chennai Superkings at base price of $100,000.

Dinesh Karthik enters the auction and Kings XI Punjab purchases him for $900,000.

Naman Ojha enters the auction and Delhi Daredevils purchases him for $250,000.

Brad Haddin enters the auction now. Kolkata Knight Riders purchases Brad Haddin for $325,000.

Tim Paine enters the auction. Another wicketkeeper and all the wicketkeeper seems to be in good demand. Sahara Pune Warriors purchases Tim Paine for $270,000.

Another wicketkeeper Matt Prior enters the auction now. Matt Prior remains unsold.

Mark Boucher enters the auction now. Mark Boucher remains unsold and it is very surprising indeed.

South African wicketkeeper David Jacobs enters the auction now. Mumbai Indians purchases him for $190,000.

That is the end of wicketkeepers.

James Hopes enters the auction now. Delhi Daredevils purchases him for $350,000 after some aggressive bidding involving Mumbai Indians.

Ravindra Jadeja enters the auction now. Kochi purchases Ravindra Jadeja for $950,000.

Bangladesh captain and all rounder Shakib Al Hasan enters the auction now. Some aggressive bidding going on for him too between KKR and Pune. Kolkata Knight Riders purchases him for $425,000. A very good pick for sure.

Stuart Broad enters the auction now. Kings XI Punjab purchases him for $400,000.

Abhishek Nayyar enters the auction now. King XI Punjab purchases Nayyar for $800,000.

Angelo Matthews enters the auction now. Sahara Pune Warriors purchases him for $950,000.

Dwayne Bravo enters the auction now. Chennai Superkings purchases Dwayne Bravo at base price of $200,000.

Steven Smith enters the auction. Kochi purchases Steven Smith for $200,000.

James Franklin up next. Mumbai Indians purchases him at base price of $100,000.

30 minutes tea break now.

Break over. Bowlers to be auctioned now.

Dilhara Fernando enters the auction but goes unsold.

James Anderson enters the auction now. James Anderson also goes unsold.

Ishant Sharma enters the auction now. Ishant Sharma gets sold to Deccan Chargers for $450,000.

Praveen Kumar enters the auction. King XI Punjab purchases Praveen Kumar for $800,000.

Ashish Nehra up next. Sahara Pune Warriors purchases Ashish Nehra for $850,000.

Brett Lee up next. Kolkata Knight Riders purchases Brett Lee at the base price of $400,000.

Morne Morkel up next. Delhi and Deccan are bidding for him aggressively. Royal Challengers also enters into the bidding and now its Delhi vs RCB. Delhi Daredevils finally purchases Morne Morkel for $475,000.

Dale Steyn up next. Aggressive bidding going on for Steyn as expected. Deccan Chargers purchases Dale Steyn for $1.2 million. The most expensive specialist bowler till now including all Indian bowlers.

Ryan Harris up next. Kings XI Punjab purchases Ryan Harris for $325,000.

IPL hero for Daredevils Dirk Nannes up next. Royal Challengers Bangalore purchases Dirk Nannes for $650,000.

Doug Bollingers enters the auction now. Aggressive bidding between CSK and Kochi for Nannes. Doug Bollinger will play for Chennai Superkings once again as he is picked up by them for $700,000.

Spin bowlers up next.

The master of spin Mutiah Muralitharan enters the auction. Bidding war going between Chennai and Pune for Muralitharan. Kochi also enters the fray. The bidding was has now shifted to CSK vs Kochi and it has already crossed 1 million. Kochi purchases Mutiah Muralitharan for $1.1 million.

Grame Swann goes unsold. Another surprise though it might have to do with availability.

Piyush Chawla up next. Bidding war goes off again and has crossed 700K already. Piyush Chawla will play for Kings XI Punjab this year too as they grab him for $900,000.

R Ashwin enters the auction and aggressive bidding already reaches 600K within seconds. Chennai Superkings purchases Ashwin for $850,000 and he will play for them again.

Ajantha Mendis up next. Mendis goes unsold.

Pragyan Ojha up next. Deccan Chargers involved in bidding wars at first with CSK and then with Delhi to get him back in team colors. Deccan Charges purchases Pragyan Ojha for $500,000.

Murali Karthik up next. No bids and Murali Kartik goes unsold which is quite surprising.

Amit Mishra enters the auction now. Bidding war between Deccan and Mallya for Mishra. Pune enters the fray at 290K. Deccan Chargers finally grabs Amit Mishra for $300,000.

The other McCullum brother Nathan McCullum up next. Sahara Pune Warriors purchases Nathan McCullum at the base price of $100,000 and that is almost a steal at that price for a good allrounder.

Ramesh Powar up next and the last in this set. Kochi purchases Romesh Powar for $180,000.

Kapugedera up next. No bids and he goes unsold.

Aaron Finch up next. Delhi Daredevils pick up Aaron Finch for $300,000.

Eoin Morgan up next. Kolkata Knight Riders purchases Eoin Morgan for $350,000.

Brad Hodge enters the auction now. Kochi purchases Hodge for $425,000.

Tanim Iqbal up next but goes unsold.

Callum Ferguson up next. Sahara Pune Warriors purchases Callum Ferguson for $300,000.

Manoj Tiwary up next. Kolkata Knight Riders retain him in team colors as they pick Manoj Tiwary for $475,000.

Cheteswar Pujara up next. Royal Challengers Bangalore purchases Cheteswar Pujara for $700,000.

Subramanium Badrinath enters the auction now. Aggressive bidding on its way already. Chennai Superkings purchases Badrinath for $800,000 and retain him in team colors.

Paul Collingwood up next. Rajasthan Royals purchases Paul Collingwood for $250,000.

Dan Christian to Deccan Chargers for $900,000

Umesh Yadav to Delhi Daredevils for $750,000

Munaf Patel to Mumbai Indians for $700,000

Venugopal Rao to Delhi Daredevils for $700,000

Lakshmipathy Balaji to Kolkata Knight Riders for $500,000

R Vinay Kumar to Kochi for $475,000

Ashok Dinda to Delhi Daredevils for $375,000

Shaun Tait to Rajasthan Royals for $300,000

Mitchell Marsh to Pune for $290,000

Manpreet Gony to Deccan Chargers for $290,000

Abhimanyu Mithun to Royal Challengers Bangalore for $260,000

Jaidev Unadkat to Kolkata Knight Riders for $250,000

Sudeep Tyagi to Chennai Super Kings for $240,000

Ajit Agarkar to Delhi Daredvils for $210,000

Owais Shah to Kochi for $200,000

Scott Styris to Chennai Super Kings for $200,000

Wayne Parnell to Pune for $160,000

Ryan ten Doeschate to Kolkata Knight Riders for $150,000

Joginder Sharma to Chennai Super Kings for $150,000

Charl Langeveldt to Royal Challengers Bangalore for $140,000

Clint McKay to Mumbai Indians for $110,000

Jerome Taylor to Pune for $100,000

James Pattinson to Kolkata Knight Riders for $100,000

Nuwan Kulasekara to Chennai Super Kings for $100,000

Matthew Wade to Delhi Daredevils for $100,000

Ben Hilfenhaus to Chennai Super Kings for $100,000

Pankaj Singh to Rajasthan Royals for $95,000

Suraj Randiv to Chennai Super Kings for $80,000

Andrew McDonald to Delhi Daredevils for $80,000

Thisara Perera to Kochi for $80,000

Michael Klinger to Kochi for $75,000

Johan van der Wath to Royal Challengers Bangalore for $50,000

Roelof van der Merwe to Delhi Daredevils for $50,000

Luke Pomersbach to Royal Challengers Bangalore for $50,000

Steven O’Keefe to Kochi for $20,000

George Bailey to Chennai Super Kings for $50,000.

Alfonso Thomas to Pune for $100,000

Rilee Rossouw sold to Bangalore at $20,000

Bangalore buy Nuwan Pradeep at base price of $20,000

Deccan Chargers buy Chris Lynn at base price of $20,000.

Chennai Super Kings buy Faf du Plessis at $120,000

Now the wishlist of unsold players are being submitted.

Jesse Ryder of New Zealand first player to out from unsold list. Sahara Pune Warriors purchases Jesse Ryder for $150,000.

Sahara Pune Warriors purchases Murali Kartik for $400,000 after a bidding war with Rajasthan Royals.

Juan Rusty Theron sold to Deccan Chargers for $85,000.

Travis Birt sold to Delhi Daredevils for $20,000.

Dmitri Mascarenhas sold to Kings XI Punjab for $100,000.

Jonathan Vandair sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for $20,000.

Moises Henriques purchased by Mumbai Indians for $50,000

Delhi Daredevils purchases Colin Ingram for $100,000.

Deccan Chargers purchases Michael Lumb for $80,000.

Kings XI Punjab purchases Nathan Rimmington for $20,000.

Mumbai Indians purchases Adrian Blizzard for $20,000.

Delhi Daredevils purchases Robert Frylinck for $20,000.

Royal Challengers Bangalore purchases Mohammed Kaif for $130,000.

That is all in the auctions.

That is all for today. Quite a lot of surprises as well as good picks for the day and hope that it will be more interesting tomorrow when the auction continues at 11 AM Indian time.

Final list of 350 players up for IPL season 4 auction

admin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:31:29 +0000

350 players will go under the hammer in IPL auctions on Saturday and Sunday at Bangalore. All the 10 teams including the two new IPL teams Sahara Pune Warriors and Kochi will try to grab the players. Each team has been allotted a total of 9 million dollars for spending on the players auctions as well as uncapped domestic players. Chennai Superkings have retained M S Dhoni, M Vijay, Suresh Raina and Albie Morkel (South Africa) while Mumbai Indians have also retained all the four players Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka) and Kieron Pollard (West Indies). So, these teams will effectively have only 4.5 million dollars left in their purse. Rajasthan Royals has retained Shane Warne (Australia) and Shane Watson (Australia) leaving them with USD 5.9 million available to spend. Delhi Daredevils and Royal Challengers Bangalore have retained only player in Virender Sehwag and Virat Kohli respectively enabling them to have a balance of 7.2 million dollars available. Deccan Chargers, Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab have not retained any players and will have the complete 9 million available for purchase alongwith the two new franchisees. Many new faces including cricketing legends such as Brian Lara would be available for purchase at the auction which will be conducted by professional auctioneer Richard Madley, from England, who has conducted each of the previous IPL player auctions too. However, a few players like Matthew Hayden, Glenn McGrath, Shane Bond and Anil Kumble who played previous editions of IPL has decided to give the auctions a miss due to personal reasons. The first round of auctions would be for the players with the highest base price of $400,000 followed by second round with players with base price of $300,000 and then with $200,000 and $100,000 base price and so on. The two day auction would start at 10 A.M. Indian time tomorrow and will be broadcast live on Set Max.

Players with base price of $400,000 are:

Adam Gilchrist, Brett Lee, Shaun Marsh, James Anderson, Kevin Pietersen, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, Luke Wright, Michael Yardy, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, Daniel Vettori, Brendon McCullum, Ross Taylor, Graeme Smith, AB de Villiers, Mahela Jayawardene, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Brian Lara and Chris Gayle.

Players with base price of $300,000 are:

Yusuf Pathan, Zaheer Khan, VVS Laxman, Jacques Kallis, Muttiah Muralitharan, Andrew Symonds, Cameron White, David Hussey, Shaun Tait, Kumar Sangakkara, Angelo Mathews, Simon James Cook and Steven Davies.

Players with base price of $200,000 are:

Gautam Gambhir, Irfan Pathan, Ashish Nehra, Sreesanth, Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik, RP Singh, Robin Uthappa, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Murali Karthik, Pragyan Ojha, Shakib Al Hasan, Michael Hussey, James Hopes, Brad Haddin, Brad Hodge, Doug Bollinger, Callum Ferguson, Ryan Harris, Peter Siddle, David Warner, Steven Smith, Dirk Nannes, Paul Collingwood, Owais Shah, Matt Prior, Ravi Bopara, Eoin Morgan, Ryan Sidebottom, Jonathan Trott, Joe Denly, Ajmal Shahzad, Tim Bresnan, Kyle Mills, Jacob Oram, Herschelle Gibbs, Mark Boucher, J P Duminy, Johan Botha, Dale Steyn, Sanath Jayasuriya, Ajantha Mendis, Dwayne Bravo and Darren Stevens.

Some Prominent Players with base price of $100,000 are:

Tamim Iqbal, Mortaza, R Ashwin, Morne Morkel, Dwayne Smith, Chanderpaul, Sarwan, Vaas, Fernando, Tharanga, Maharoof, Morne Morkel, Charl Langeveldt, Ntini, Kemp, Wayne Parnell, Ryan McLaren, Nathan McCullum, Time Southee, Scott Styris, Surabh Tiwary, Pujara, Vinay Kumar, Shikhar Dhawan, Badrinath, Parthiv Patel, Amit Mishra, Ravindra Jadeja, Munaf Patel, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Ian Bell, Sajid Mahmood, Ben Hilfenhaus, Philip Hughes, Adam Voges, Simon Katich and Tim Paine.

To view the complete list of players with base prices and details check this pdf.

NOTE: Domestic Indian uncapped players are not in the auction as they will be be available only after the IPL instructs them later. The domestic players have been broken down in to three categories, depending on how much first-class cricket they have played. The lowest tier of players can sign for Rs 10 lakhs (US$21,500) per year, the middle tier for Rs 20 lakhs ($43,000) and the top tier – those who have played at least five seasons of Ranji Trophy – will be paid Rs 30 lakhs ($64,500) per year.