Mumbai, Jan 12 (IANS) Rajasthan Royals have signed four 'uncapped' players from the state Ranji Trophy squad -- Deepak Chahar, Ashok Maneria, Aakash Chopra and Dishant Yagnik -- for the fourth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Royals, during the two-day auction over the weekend, also bought Rajasthan's pace spearhead Pankaj Singh, the highest wicket taker in the ongoing Ranji season.
Pace sensation Chahar, 18, took eight wickets in his first-class debut and was chief destroyer in bowling out Hyderabad to the lowest ever Ranji total of 21.
Left-arm spinner Maneria was the captain of the U-19 team which toured Australia in 2009 and for the U-19 World Cup in New Zealand.
Chopra, a former India Test opener and Delhi skipper moved to Rajasthan this season and has been instrumental in the team's superb performance that took them to the final.
Chopra has played for India but according to IPL rules if a player has not played for India in the last five years, he will come under the 'uncapped' category.
Former India player Hrishikesh Kanitkar, who is Rajasthan's captain, has been approached by the Kochi team.
'We are delighted to announce the signings of the Rajasthan players. It underlines our commitment to cricket in the state of Rajasthan and we will continue to work closely with the local Cricket Associations who have done such a fine job of developing these players,' said Sean Morris, CEO, Rajasthan Royals.
'We see huge opportunity for our local players to further improve their skills through joining the IPL team full of international stars who will add to their cricketing experience.'
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
IPL 4 Live Auction - (09/01/2011)
Allright the Auction is Live Now…
13.59 – Strangely there are no bids for West Indies’ Fidel Edwards. He was with Chargers last season.
13.58 – No buyers for Andy McKay.
13.57 – VRV Singh, former Punjab employee, goes unsold.
13.56 – Jerome Taylor of West Indies goes to Pune.
13.54 – Bangalore gets Johan van der Wath at base price os $50,000.
13.52 - South African Andre Nel and New Zealand’s Ian Butler go unsold
13.50 - Pankaj Singh, retained by Rajasthan, 95,000.
13.50 – Chris Tremlett, Ashes hero, unsold.
13.50 – Ryan Sidebottom, unsold.
13.50 - Mkhaya Ntini, unsold. He is playing his farewell international match today. Don’t miss it.
13.49 – Lonwabo Tsotsobe, unsold.
13.48 – Chanaka Welegedera, unsold.
13.46 - Jeevantha Kulatunga, unsold.
13.46 - Kaushalya Weeraratne, unsold.
13.45 - Graham Napier, unsold.
13.45 - Prosper Utseya, unsold.
13.43 - John Hastings, gone to Kochi for 20,000.
13.42 – Andrew McDonald, sold to Delhi, 80,000.
13.39 – Mitchell Marsh, brother of Shaun, son of Geoff, captain of the Australia juniors and U-19 World Cup winner. Good talent, formerly with Deccan Chargers.
Sold to Pune for 290,000 where his father Geoff is the coach. Interesting.
13.36 – Ryan ten Doeschate, the Dutch all-rounder. Sold to 150,000 to Kolkata. He’s the ICC Associate Cricketer of the year.
13.35 - Darren Sammy, unsold. Aaron Redmond, unsold.
All-rounders segment next.
13.31 - Michael Klinger, Aussie batsman, 20k. Sold to Kochi for 75,000. Kochi are going after some batsmen now.
13.30 - Neil McKenzie, 100k, unsold.
13.29 - Lou Vincent. Remember him? Unsold.
13.28 - Owais Shah, 200k. Sold to Kochi for base price.
13.27 - Jehan Mubarak, starts at just 20k. This could be a good bargain buy. But Mubarak is unsold.
13.27 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul – unsold.
13.26 - No takers for Simon Katich.
13.25 - Martin Guptill, Kiwi batter, excellent fielder, 100k. Unsold.
13.24 - Jacques Rudolph, 100k, unsold.
13.24 - Jonathan Trott, starting at 200,000. Unsold.
13.23 - Bryce McGain, unsold.
13.21 - Surav Randiv, Chennai bid for 50,000. Sold for 80,000 to Chennai.
13.20 - Ray Price, Zimbabwe, any takers? Still unsold.
13.20 - Aaron Heal, unsold.
13.20 - Jason Krejza, who took 12 on Test debut in Nagpur, unsold.
13.19 - Xavier Doherty, Australia, 100k, no takers. Unsold.
13.19 - Suhrawadi Shuvo, Bangladesh, 50k, unsold.
13.18 - Abdur Razzaq, Bangladesh, 50k. Will KKR go for him? No. Unsold.
13.18 - Spin bowlers next.
Kochi’s side is loaded with bowlers. Wonder what’s their strategy. Who would be their captain? We’re thinking Mahela or Brendon McCullum. Here’s a thought: what would happen to the team if Sreesanth was its captain? Comment away!
13.05 - Tim Southee, unsold.
13.00 - Sudeep Tyagi, opening at 50k. Punjab pull out at 240,000 and that’s what he will be paid by Chennai, who’ve retained Tyagi. Chennai have looked after their own, rebuying several of their players.
12.59 - Chaminda Vaas, left out of the SL World Cup team. Unsold, no surprises.
12.57 - Nuwan Kulasekara, former world No. 1 bowler in ODIs, starts at 100,000. Goes to Chennai for his base price.
12.55 - Abhimanyu Mithun, sold to Bangalore for 260,000.
12.53 - Wayne Parnell, 100k, goes to Pune for 160,000.
12.52 - Kemar Roach, 100k, unsold. Thilan Thushara, unsold again.
12.47 - Joginder Sharma, the T20 World Cup hero, but long discarded from the Indian team, up for 100k. He is retained by Chennai, for 150,000.
12.41 - Manpreet Gony, one of the finds of IPL 2008, starts at 50k. Kings XI seem to be interested in the burly Punjabi pacer. He was with Chennai previously. Deccan and Punjab are in a bidding war here. Up to 190,000.
Gony’s record, 26 IPL matches, 23 wickets at 30.73. Up to 250,000 now.
Gony goes to Deccan for 290,000!
12.33 - Jaidev Unadkat. Begins at 50k. Chennai make the first bid.
12.33 - Juan ‘Rusty’ Theron, 50k, unsold. Sanjay Manjrekar says it’s shocking. He was a good death bowler in the Champions League, he says.
12.32 - Peter Siddle, Aussie pacer, 200k. No bids. Quite incredible. Unsold! He just took a hat-trick in the first Ashes Test recently.
12.31 - Ben Hilfenhaus, the big Aussie, for 100k. Chennai make a belated first bid. No other bids. Sold for 100k.
12.30 - Moises Henriques, NSW all-rounder, unsold.
12.59 - Dillon du Preez, formerly with RCB, unsold.
12.28 - Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwe captain, unsold.
12.26 - Scott Styris, starts at 100K. Chennai start at 100k. The unsold streak ends. For 200,000 he goes to Chennai.
12.25 - Vernon Philander, starts at 50K. No bids! Seven in a row.
12.24 - Zander de Bruyn – looks like he won’t be sold. That’s six in a row.
12.22 - Justin Ontong, starts at 20K among the new set of all-rounders. Unsold. That’s five players unsold in a row.
12.22 - Darren Bravo, brother of Dwayne, goes unsold. Wasim Jaffer. Unsold.
12.20 - Adam Voges, Upul Tharanga – Unsold.
12.15 - Venugopal Rao, up for 100K. Pune makes the first bid. Kochi next. A talented batsman, he’s been a disappointment in the IPL – 33 games, two fifties, 446 runs at 19.39. But he’s batted down the order a lot.
Sold to Delhi for 700,000!
12.15 - Venugopal Rao, up for 100K. Pune makes the first bid. Kochi next.
12.15 – Michael Lumb. Unsold.
12.12 - Mohammad Kaif next. Bidding starts at 100,000. No bids. Wow. Now that’s a fallen star. He’s done poorly in T20.
12.12 - Luke Pomersbach goes to Bangalore for 50k.
12.10 - England’s Ian Bell. Unsold. Lots of England players have been avoided. Availability is a problem.
12.10 - Back after the break. Chamara Silva, base-priced 100K, goes unsold.
News plug: Lalit Modi says the auction reveals the true worth of players. Do you agree?
And we have a breather for 10 minutes now. It was a crazy session with teams spending very carefully on players.
11.57 – Kochi gets little known Australian Steven O’Keefe for $20,000. Nice buy…ehh
11.55 – West Indies’ Nikita Miller not sold as well.
11.53 – South Africa’s Robin Peterson, West Indies’ Sulieman Benn, Sri Lankan Kaushal Lokuarachchi and Malinga Bandara go unsold.
11.51 – Delhi bags South African Roelof van der Merwe at base price of $50,000.
11.50 – Sri Lankan spin bowler Rangana Herath and South African Paul Harris also goes unsold.
11.48 – England’s Monty Panesar goes unsold.
11.44 – Lakshmipathy Balaji is up for the grabs and Chennai is seriously after him. Super Kings lose their man and Kolkata gets Balaji for $500,000.
11.42 – Clint McKay, Australian all-rounder, goes to Mumbai for $110,000.
11.38 -Indian Umesh Yadav must be jumping in the air. There is a big fight between the teams out there for him. And Delhi gets him for $750,000…U gatta be kidding me.
11.36 – Rajasthan get their guy Shaun Tait back at base price of $300,000.
11.35 – New Zealand’s Kyle Mills goes unsold.
I don’t understand, Mumbai let Zaheer go yesterday and bought Munaf today…Strange by miles…
11.34 – Munaf Patel is getting all the attention from the IPL teams at the auction. And Mumbai gets him for $700,00.
11.32 – Sri Lankan Farveez Maharoof with a base price of $100,000 goes unsold.
11.28 – Ashok Dinda is now up for the grabs and Kolkata looks very serious for him. And Delhi gets him for $375,000.
For your information the IPL-4 will have 70 league matches
11.26 – Big fight for former Bangalore player Vinay Kumar. Big buyer Kochi gets him for $475,000.
11.24 – South African Charl Langeveldt, a useful Twenty20 bowler, is up for the grabs now. And Bangalore gets him for $140,000.
11.23 – South African and former Mumbai bowler Ryan McLaren goes unsold.
11.21 – And the fight is on for Ajit Agarkar. Remember him! And Delhi gets him for $210,000.
11.20 – England’s Ravi Bopara, West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Smith, New Zealand’s Jacob Oram, South Africa all-rounder Justin Kemp and England’s Dimitri Mascarenhas goes unsold.
11.16 – Sri Lankan Thisara Perera goes to Kochi for $80,000.
11.14 – Big fight for Australian all-rounder Daniel Christian. Deccan Chargers finally wins the race to land Christian for $900,000.
11.12 – No takers for England’s Ashes hero Tim Bresnan.
11.09 – Former Mumbai Indians opener Sanath Jayasuriya with a base price of $200,000 goes unsold. He now joins biggies in Lara, Ganguly and Gayle who failed attract a bid this time.
11.08 – Gareth Hopkins from New Zealand, Zimbabwe’s Brendan Taylor, Sri Lankan Dinesh Chandimal, Ireland wicket-keeper, Niall O’Brien and Australian Luke Ronchi goes unsold.
It is getting very hot here.
11.06 – Delhi Daredevils has taken the initiative to start the proceedings. Matthew Wade goes to Delhi for $100,000
11.05 – No buyer for Australian wicket-keeper Chris Hartley.
11.04 – Sri Lankan Indika de Saram and Denesh Ramdin from West Indies goes unsold.
We will see you after an hour
14.00 – Australian Shane Harwood and West Indies’ all-rounder Ravi Rampaul goes unsold as we head for lunch. .13.59 – Strangely there are no bids for West Indies’ Fidel Edwards. He was with Chargers last season.
13.58 – No buyers for Andy McKay.
13.57 – VRV Singh, former Punjab employee, goes unsold.
13.56 – Jerome Taylor of West Indies goes to Pune.
13.54 – Bangalore gets Johan van der Wath at base price os $50,000.
13.52 - South African Andre Nel and New Zealand’s Ian Butler go unsold
13.50 - Pankaj Singh, retained by Rajasthan, 95,000.
13.50 – Chris Tremlett, Ashes hero, unsold.
13.50 – Ryan Sidebottom, unsold.
13.50 - Mkhaya Ntini, unsold. He is playing his farewell international match today. Don’t miss it.
13.49 – Lonwabo Tsotsobe, unsold.
13.48 – Chanaka Welegedera, unsold.
13.46 - Jeevantha Kulatunga, unsold.
13.46 - Kaushalya Weeraratne, unsold.
13.45 - Graham Napier, unsold.
13.45 - Prosper Utseya, unsold.
13.43 - John Hastings, gone to Kochi for 20,000.
13.42 – Andrew McDonald, sold to Delhi, 80,000.
13.39 – Mitchell Marsh, brother of Shaun, son of Geoff, captain of the Australia juniors and U-19 World Cup winner. Good talent, formerly with Deccan Chargers.
Sold to Pune for 290,000 where his father Geoff is the coach. Interesting.
13.36 – Ryan ten Doeschate, the Dutch all-rounder. Sold to 150,000 to Kolkata. He’s the ICC Associate Cricketer of the year.
13.35 - Darren Sammy, unsold. Aaron Redmond, unsold.
All-rounders segment next.
13.31 - Michael Klinger, Aussie batsman, 20k. Sold to Kochi for 75,000. Kochi are going after some batsmen now.
13.30 - Neil McKenzie, 100k, unsold.
13.29 - Lou Vincent. Remember him? Unsold.
13.28 - Owais Shah, 200k. Sold to Kochi for base price.
13.27 - Jehan Mubarak, starts at just 20k. This could be a good bargain buy. But Mubarak is unsold.
13.27 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul – unsold.
13.26 - No takers for Simon Katich.
13.25 - Martin Guptill, Kiwi batter, excellent fielder, 100k. Unsold.
13.24 - Jacques Rudolph, 100k, unsold.
13.24 - Jonathan Trott, starting at 200,000. Unsold.
13.23 - Bryce McGain, unsold.
13.21 - Surav Randiv, Chennai bid for 50,000. Sold for 80,000 to Chennai.
13.20 - Ray Price, Zimbabwe, any takers? Still unsold.
13.20 - Aaron Heal, unsold.
13.20 - Jason Krejza, who took 12 on Test debut in Nagpur, unsold.
13.19 - Xavier Doherty, Australia, 100k, no takers. Unsold.
13.19 - Suhrawadi Shuvo, Bangladesh, 50k, unsold.
13.18 - Abdur Razzaq, Bangladesh, 50k. Will KKR go for him? No. Unsold.
13.18 - Spin bowlers next.
Kochi’s side is loaded with bowlers. Wonder what’s their strategy. Who would be their captain? We’re thinking Mahela or Brendon McCullum. Here’s a thought: what would happen to the team if Sreesanth was its captain? Comment away!
13.05 - Tim Southee, unsold.
13.00 - Sudeep Tyagi, opening at 50k. Punjab pull out at 240,000 and that’s what he will be paid by Chennai, who’ve retained Tyagi. Chennai have looked after their own, rebuying several of their players.
12.59 - Chaminda Vaas, left out of the SL World Cup team. Unsold, no surprises.
12.57 - Nuwan Kulasekara, former world No. 1 bowler in ODIs, starts at 100,000. Goes to Chennai for his base price.
12.55 - Abhimanyu Mithun, sold to Bangalore for 260,000.
12.53 - Wayne Parnell, 100k, goes to Pune for 160,000.
12.52 - Kemar Roach, 100k, unsold. Thilan Thushara, unsold again.
12.47 - Joginder Sharma, the T20 World Cup hero, but long discarded from the Indian team, up for 100k. He is retained by Chennai, for 150,000.
12.41 - Manpreet Gony, one of the finds of IPL 2008, starts at 50k. Kings XI seem to be interested in the burly Punjabi pacer. He was with Chennai previously. Deccan and Punjab are in a bidding war here. Up to 190,000.
Gony’s record, 26 IPL matches, 23 wickets at 30.73. Up to 250,000 now.
Gony goes to Deccan for 290,000!
12.33 - Jaidev Unadkat. Begins at 50k. Chennai make the first bid.
12.33 - Juan ‘Rusty’ Theron, 50k, unsold. Sanjay Manjrekar says it’s shocking. He was a good death bowler in the Champions League, he says.
12.32 - Peter Siddle, Aussie pacer, 200k. No bids. Quite incredible. Unsold! He just took a hat-trick in the first Ashes Test recently.
12.31 - Ben Hilfenhaus, the big Aussie, for 100k. Chennai make a belated first bid. No other bids. Sold for 100k.
That’s the end of the all-rounders’ segment. Pacers next
2.30 - Grant Elliot, Kiwi, 50K, unsold. 12.30 - Moises Henriques, NSW all-rounder, unsold.
12.59 - Dillon du Preez, formerly with RCB, unsold.
12.28 - Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwe captain, unsold.
12.26 - Scott Styris, starts at 100K. Chennai start at 100k. The unsold streak ends. For 200,000 he goes to Chennai.
12.25 - Vernon Philander, starts at 50K. No bids! Seven in a row.
12.24 - Zander de Bruyn – looks like he won’t be sold. That’s six in a row.
12.22 - Justin Ontong, starts at 20K among the new set of all-rounders. Unsold. That’s five players unsold in a row.
12.22 - Darren Bravo, brother of Dwayne, goes unsold. Wasim Jaffer. Unsold.
12.20 - Adam Voges, Upul Tharanga – Unsold.
12.15 - Venugopal Rao, up for 100K. Pune makes the first bid. Kochi next. A talented batsman, he’s been a disappointment in the IPL – 33 games, two fifties, 446 runs at 19.39. But he’s batted down the order a lot.
Sold to Delhi for 700,000!
12.15 - Venugopal Rao, up for 100K. Pune makes the first bid. Kochi next.
12.15 – Michael Lumb. Unsold.
12.12 - Mohammad Kaif next. Bidding starts at 100,000. No bids. Wow. Now that’s a fallen star. He’s done poorly in T20.
12.12 - Luke Pomersbach goes to Bangalore for 50k.
12.10 - England’s Ian Bell. Unsold. Lots of England players have been avoided. Availability is a problem.
12.10 - Back after the break. Chamara Silva, base-priced 100K, goes unsold.
News plug: Lalit Modi says the auction reveals the true worth of players. Do you agree?
And we have a breather for 10 minutes now. It was a crazy session with teams spending very carefully on players.
11.57 – Kochi gets little known Australian Steven O’Keefe for $20,000. Nice buy…ehh
11.55 – West Indies’ Nikita Miller not sold as well.
11.53 – South Africa’s Robin Peterson, West Indies’ Sulieman Benn, Sri Lankan Kaushal Lokuarachchi and Malinga Bandara go unsold.
11.51 – Delhi bags South African Roelof van der Merwe at base price of $50,000.
11.50 – Sri Lankan spin bowler Rangana Herath and South African Paul Harris also goes unsold.
11.48 – England’s Monty Panesar goes unsold.
11.44 – Lakshmipathy Balaji is up for the grabs and Chennai is seriously after him. Super Kings lose their man and Kolkata gets Balaji for $500,000.
11.42 – Clint McKay, Australian all-rounder, goes to Mumbai for $110,000.
11.38 -Indian Umesh Yadav must be jumping in the air. There is a big fight between the teams out there for him. And Delhi gets him for $750,000…U gatta be kidding me.
11.36 – Rajasthan get their guy Shaun Tait back at base price of $300,000.
11.35 – New Zealand’s Kyle Mills goes unsold.
I don’t understand, Mumbai let Zaheer go yesterday and bought Munaf today…Strange by miles…
11.34 – Munaf Patel is getting all the attention from the IPL teams at the auction. And Mumbai gets him for $700,00.
11.32 – Sri Lankan Farveez Maharoof with a base price of $100,000 goes unsold.
11.28 – Ashok Dinda is now up for the grabs and Kolkata looks very serious for him. And Delhi gets him for $375,000.
For your information the IPL-4 will have 70 league matches
11.26 – Big fight for former Bangalore player Vinay Kumar. Big buyer Kochi gets him for $475,000.
11.24 – South African Charl Langeveldt, a useful Twenty20 bowler, is up for the grabs now. And Bangalore gets him for $140,000.
11.23 – South African and former Mumbai bowler Ryan McLaren goes unsold.
11.21 – And the fight is on for Ajit Agarkar. Remember him! And Delhi gets him for $210,000.
11.20 – England’s Ravi Bopara, West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Smith, New Zealand’s Jacob Oram, South Africa all-rounder Justin Kemp and England’s Dimitri Mascarenhas goes unsold.
11.16 – Sri Lankan Thisara Perera goes to Kochi for $80,000.
11.14 – Big fight for Australian all-rounder Daniel Christian. Deccan Chargers finally wins the race to land Christian for $900,000.
11.12 – No takers for England’s Ashes hero Tim Bresnan.
11.08 – Gareth Hopkins from New Zealand, Zimbabwe’s Brendan Taylor, Sri Lankan Dinesh Chandimal, Ireland wicket-keeper, Niall O’Brien and Australian Luke Ronchi goes unsold.
It is getting very hot here.
11.06 – Delhi Daredevils has taken the initiative to start the proceedings. Matthew Wade goes to Delhi for $100,000
11.05 – No buyer for Australian wicket-keeper Chris Hartley.
11.04 – Sri Lankan Indika de Saram and Denesh Ramdin from West Indies goes unsold.
IPL 4 Unsold Players ( 08/01/2011)
Unsold Players:
Sourav Ganguly, Chris Gayle, Jesse Ryder, Herschelle Gibbs, Brian Lara, Graham Manou ,Matt Prior, Mark Boucher, Luke Wright, James Anderson, Graeme Swann, Ajantha Mendis, Murali Karthik, Chamara Kapugedera, Tamim Iqbal
10 IPL Teams squads as of now - ( 08/01/2011)
Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina , M Vijay, Albie Morkel, Michael Hussey, Wriddhiman Saha, Dawyne Bravo, Doug Bollinger, S Badrinath, R. Ashwin
Deccan Chargers: Kevin Pietersen, Cameron White, Kumar Sangakkara, JP Duminy, Shikhar Dhawan, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra, Pragyan Ojha, Dale Steyn
Delhi Daredevils: Virender Sehwag, Irfan Pathan, David Warner, Naman Ojha, James Hopes, Morne Morkel, Aaron Finch
Kings XI Punjab: Adam Gilchrist, Shaun Marsh, David Hussey, Dinesh Karthik, Stuart Broad, Abhishek Nayar, Praveen Kumar, Ryan Harris, Piyush Chawla
Kochi: Mahela Jayawardene, VVS Laxman, Brendon McCullum, Sreesanth, RP Singh, Parthiv Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Steven smith, Ramesh powar, Brad Hodge, Muttiah Muralitharan
Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir, Yusuf Pathan, Jacques Kallis, Brad Haddin, Shakib-al-Hassan, Bret Lee, Eoin Morgan, Manoj Tiwary
Mumbai Indians: Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Rohit Sharma, Andrew Symonds, David Jacobs, James Franklin
Pune Warriors: Yuvraj Singh, Graeme Smith, Robin Uthappa, Tim Paine, Angelo Mathews, Ashish Nehra, Callum Ferguson
Rajasthan Royals: Shane Warne, Shane Watson, Ross Taylor, Rahul Dravid, Johan Botha, Paul Collingwood
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, Tillakartane Dilshan, Zaheer Khan, AB de Villiers, Daniel Vettori, Sourabh Tiwary, Dirk Nannes, Cheteshwar Pujara,
Saturday, January 8, 2011
India's Gambhir hits record $2.4 million jackpot
The top seven earners on the opening day of the two-day auction were all Indians, with Irfan Pathan, brother of Yusuf, Yuvraj Singh and Saurabh Tiwary going for more than $1 million.
In contrast, at the inaugural auction in 2008 only two players - India's Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds - were bought for more than $1 million.
This time Symonds went to Mumbai Indians for $850,000 at the high-profile auction which saw Bollywood stars and corporate big-wigs bid for the players.
Gambhir was the first to go under the hammer in Bangalore, and was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for an amount far exceeding his base price of $200,000. He was soon joined in the exclusive bracket by all-rounder Yusuf, who was bought by the same franchise for $2.1 million. Yusuf's reserve price was $300,000.
Batsman Uthappa went to new franchise Pune Warriors for $2.1 million, while Sharma was bought by Mumbai Indians for $2 million as Indians called the shots.
The prices paid to the Indian foursome easily eclipsed the previous record of England duo Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff, who went for 1.55 million dollars each in 2009.
Pietersen, with a base price of $400,000, was bought by Deccan Chargers for $650,000 this time.
Among other $1 million men were New Zealander Ross Taylor, Sri Lankans Mahela Jayawardene and Muttiah Muralitharan, South Africans AB de Villiers, Jacques Kallis and Dale Steyn, and Australians Cameron White and David Hussey. Jayawardene emerged the highest-paid foreigner, snapped up by Kochi for $1.5 million.
Former captains Brian Lara of the West Indies and Sourav Ganguly of India remained unsold on the opening day, along with hard-hitting West Indies batsman Chris Gayle and England bowlers Graeme Swann and James Anderson. Lara, 41, was among 21 cricketers with the highest reserve price of $400,000 for a three-year contract.
The annual IPL tournament revolutionised cricket when it burst on to the scene in 2008 with a high-octane blend of international star players, Twenty20 matches and Bollywood glamour.
But its fortunes dipped dramatically last year after allegations of massive corruption, money-laundering and tax evasion, as well as secret deals to hide teams' real owners, and even links to India's criminal underworld.
The tournament, starting on April 8, will feature 10 teams, including the two new sides - Pune Warriors and Kochi.
Twelve players have been retained by their original franchises, with Dhoni staying with the Chennai Super Kings and Shane Warne and Shane Watson sticking with the Rajasthan Royals.
Pakistan's cricketers continued to miss out on the IPL bonanza after none of them was included for the auction. Pakistan players participated in the inaugural IPL, but were forced out of the 2009 season due to security concerns following the Mumbai attacks, and were then ignored for the 2010 tournament.
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