17 foreign players sold for $450,000 on an average as eight IPL teams spend a total of $10.06 million. Ravi Krishnan in Mint:
Panaji: A Bangladeshi fast bowler went for 12 times his reserve price. A 34-year-old domestic South African player got six times his base price. And two others, both former England captains, became the world’s highest-paid cricketers. The Indian Premier League’s (IPL) second round auction on Friday in one of Goa’s priciest hotels seemed unaware of any slowdown.
England’s Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff were signed for $1.55 million (Rs7.55 crore) a year each, topping the $1.5 million the India Cements Ltd-promoted Chennai Super Kings bid for India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni last year. Flintoff will play for the Chennai franchise and Pietersen for the United Breweries Ltd-owned Bangalore Royal Challengers.
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Results of the second round of the IPL auction:
Group A:
Dimitri Mascarenhas (England/Hampshire) – USD 100,000 – Jaipur
Shane Watson (Australia/Queensland) – USD 125,000 – Jaipur
James Hopes (Australia/Queensland) – USD 300,000 – Mohali
Luke Pomersbach (Western Australia) – USD 50,000 – Mohali
Misbah Ul Haq (Pakistan) – USD 125,000 – Bangalore
Group B:
Brett Geeves (Tasmania) – USD 50,000 – Delhi
Salman Butt (Pakistan) – USD 100,000 – Kolkata
Sohail Tanveer (Pakistan) – USD 100,000 – Jaipur
Morne Morkel (South Africa) – USD 60,000 – Jaipur
Abdur Razzaq (Bangladesh) – USD 50,000 – Bangalore
Group C:
Ashwell Prince (South Africa) – USD 175,000 – Mumbai
Kyle Mills (New Zealand) – USD 150,000 – Mohali
Ross Taylor (New Zealand) – USD 100,000 – Bangalore
Mohd Hafeez (Pakistan) – USD 100,000 – Kolkata
Under 19 players (sold by draft):
Pradeep Sangwan – Delhi
Virat Kohli and Srivast Goswami – Bangalore
Tanmay Srivastava and Ajitesh Argal – Mohali
Saurabh Tiwary and Manish Pandey – Mumbai
Ravindra Jadeja and Taruwar Kohli – Jaipur
Napoleon Einsten, Abhinav Mukund and Viraj Kadbe – Chennai
Iqbal Abdulla and Sidharth Kaul – Kolkata.
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