CROREPATHI CRICKETERS
M.S. DHONI'S getting top billing was hardly surprising, but the price for which he sold - Rs 6 crore - certainly triggered murmurs. On a frenzied, dramatic day of cricket's first-ever auction, something Shah Rukh Khan called "addictive", the goldrush for players just wouldn't stop.
Even computer glitches at the start could not prevent this from becoming what Vijay Mallya dubbed "the best thing to have happened to Indian cricket".
Andrew Symonds, subjected to monkey chants on his last tour to India and involved in a protracted episode over alleged racist abuse by Harbhajan Singh recently found that India's IPL franchisees at least, had no problems with him. Hyderabad doled out $1.35 million (Rs 5.4 crore) to buy him. And Sanath Jayasuriya, dismissed by many as over-the hill at 38, rang in at third place with Reliance's Mumbai giving $975,000 (Rs 3.9 crore) for him.
While the some of these numbers were indeed staggering, the real surprise lay not in how costly some players were, but how others turned out to be a steal at the end of the day.
Ten players remained unsold through the eight regular rounds of auctioning - two of them, South African Loots Bosman and Australian Michael Hussey went for higher than their base price in the re-auction. Mohammad Yousuf and Ashwell Prince were withdrawn, for legal reasons and lack of demand respectively .
The IPL announced that the remaining six, Glenn McGrath, Simon Katich, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Justin Langer and Tatenda Taibu were sold for
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Even computer glitches at the start could not prevent this from becoming what Vijay Mallya dubbed "the best thing to have happened to Indian cricket".
Andrew Symonds, subjected to monkey chants on his last tour to India and involved in a protracted episode over alleged racist abuse by Harbhajan Singh recently found that India's IPL franchisees at least, had no problems with him. Hyderabad doled out $1.35 million (Rs 5.4 crore) to buy him. And Sanath Jayasuriya, dismissed by many as over-the hill at 38, rang in at third place with Reliance's Mumbai giving $975,000 (Rs 3.9 crore) for him.
While the some of these numbers were indeed staggering, the real surprise lay not in how costly some players were, but how others turned out to be a steal at the end of the day.
Ten players remained unsold through the eight regular rounds of auctioning - two of them, South African Loots Bosman and Australian Michael Hussey went for higher than their base price in the re-auction. Mohammad Yousuf and Ashwell Prince were withdrawn, for legal reasons and lack of demand respectively .
The IPL announced that the remaining six, Glenn McGrath, Simon Katich, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Justin Langer and Tatenda Taibu were sold for
To read the full article, click here....
To read the ePaper, visit : http://epaper.hindustantimes.com
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it will further boost the popularity of cricket in india, and enough to break the back of other games in the country
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