A little short on bowling...this is a good team now
Hyderabad
Adam Gilchrist
Andrew Symonds
Herschelle Gibbs
Shahid Afridi
Scott Styris
VVS Laxman
Rohit Sharma
Chamara Silva
Can't happen.What was Mike Hussey's reserve price? Would love to see him end up with his brother at Kolkata.
Bowlers coming up next, so they could sign three decent ones and finish off the XI.A little short on bowling...
I thought it was 2 current CA contracted players. Dave Hussey isn't CA contracted.Can't happen.
Each franchise is allowed only two current Australian players.
Very home grown.this is a good team now
Hyderabad
Adam Gilchrist
Andrew Symonds
Herschelle Gibbs
Shahid Afridi
Scott Styris
VVS Laxman
Rohit Sharma
Chamara Silva
Modi just said that he expects every team to bid for IShant sharma.The most sought after
Posted by Sidharth Monga 17 minutes ago in IPL
So who were the players that the franchises bid fiercely for? Mahendra Dhoni and Andrew Symonds, obviously, as their signing amounts of US$ 1.5m and $1.35m respectively suggest. Lait Modi said there was an intense bidding for the two. "Dhoni was bid across the table by every team, his went to every team. Symonds was bid pretty much all across too."
Modi also said he could not make out what was going through the minds of the bidders, and what their strategy was. "It all depends. Everybody is trying to build a team strategically. There are players whose price has gone up from a base price of $100,000 to about $475,000-$500,000.
"Some players have gone surprisingly low, some have gone surprisingly very very high. The rationale is not for me to judge, it's for the team owners to judge."
Isn't it just two centrally contracted or players from the same state?Can't happen.
Each franchise is allowed only two current Australian players.
Yes, you are right.Isn't it just two centrally contracted or players from the same state?
Dud.auction in progress for the last lot of players :
Nathan Bracken
R P Singh
Murali Kartik
Makhaya Ntini
Lasith Malinga
Chaminda Vaas
Ramesh Powar
Umar Gul
Dale Steyn
Dilhara Fernando
Ishant Sharma
Piyush Chawla
Munaf Patel
Nuwan Zoysa
for three years.....so may be only Ridiculous/3MS Dhoni (US$ 1.5 million)
LOL, six weeks of work. Ridiculous.
No symmonds will be # 2Wow, look at all this excitement for a 20/20 tournament - in the heaven of Test cricket of all places.
In any case, Symonds is #2 on the money list, after MS Dhoni. (Excluding the 'icon' players like Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly, etc, whose price is set at 15% higher than the next highest.