IPL 2014 auction highlights: Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Karthik and Kevin Pietersen steal the show on Day 1
The player auctions for the seventh edition of the Indian Premier League will go underway with 512 players going under the hammer. Catch the highlights of the IPL player auctions here.
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Yuvraj Singh fetches the highest price in the auction with Rs 14 crore, while England's Kevin Pietersen went for Rs 9 crore. Catch all the live updates from the IPL auctions here. (Full player list)
# So that concludes an exciting day of IPL player auctions. A lot of action took place early on in the day when the likes of Yuvraj and Dinesh Karthik were fought hard for and some very strategic utilization of the right-to-match card was also seen. Most teams seem to have built a majority of their side. Here's acomplete list of players who were bought today.
It will be interesting to see how the action pans out tomorrow with a lot of young, uncapped Indian players up for grabs. How the franchises plan out their remaining budget and approach will be the deciding factor for their squad. The following is the budget remaining at the disposal of all eight teams:
It will be interesting to see how the action pans out tomorrow with a lot of young, uncapped Indian players up for grabs. How the franchises plan out their remaining budget and approach will be the deciding factor for their squad. The following is the budget remaining at the disposal of all eight teams:
CSK - Rs 3.20 crore, DD - Rs 8.60 crore, KXIP - Rs 14.20 crore, MI - Rs 5.15 crore, RR - Rs 12.10 crore, RCB - Rs 1.80 crore, SRH - Rs 8.40 crore, KKR - Rs 9 crore.
# The last player up for grabs of the day, Sri Lanka's Isuru Udana for Rs 30 Lakh. No takers for him.UNSOLD!
# Indian pacer Aavishkar Salvi is up next for Rs 30 Lakh. No takers for him. UNSOLD!
# New Zealand's Ian Butler is available at Rs 30 Lakh. None of the teams are bidding. UNSOLD!
# Shamiga Eranga is the first in the list at a base price of Rs 30 Lakh. UNSOLD!
# Final set of the day coming up
# England veteran Simon Jones up for grabs at Rs 30 Lakh. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# Sri Lanka's Nuwan Kulasekara, a former CSK bowler, is also UNSOLD!
# Former DC and KXIP player Juan Theron is up next. Base price of Rs 30 Lakh. No bids again.UNSOLD!
# New Zealand's comeback man Kyle Mills is up for Rs 50 Lakh. No bids for him either. UNSOLD!
# West Indian Jerome Taylor is up next at Rs 30 Lakh base price. No bids again. UNSOLD!
# England's Jade Dernbach is up next at Rs 50 Lakh. No takers. UNSOLD!
# West Indian pacer Tino Best is next. The base price is Rs 30 Lakh. No bids again. UNSOLD!
# SOLD! CSK break the deadlock and bid Rs 30 Lakh. They get him for that amount.
# New Zealand's Matt Henry is up next at Rs 30 Lakh.
# Ben Laughlin from Australia is next at Rs 30 Lakh. The drought continues. No bids. UNSOLD!
# New Zealand's Mitchell McClenaghan is up next. His base price is Rs 30 Lakh. No bids. UNSOLD!
# South Africa's medium pacer Merchant de Lange comes up. Rs 30 Lakh his base price but none of the sides interested. UNSOLD!
# West Indian speedster Kemar Roach is up next with a base price of Rs 1 crore. No bids. UNSOLD!
# India's VRV Singh is up next but a similar fate ensues. No bids again. UNSOLD!
# South Africa's Lonwabo Tsotsobe is the first one at Rs 30 Lakh. UNSOLD!
# A set of fast bowlers about to begin.
# England's Rikki Clarke is up next with a base price of Rs 1.50 crore. No bids again. UNSOLD!
# Thirty-year-old Danza Hayat is next up for Rs 30 Lakh. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# West Indian all-rounder Garey Mathurin is next up with a base price of Rs 30 Lakh. No bids for him.UNSOLD!
# Rayad Emrit from West Indies is up next. Rs 30 Lakh is his base price but none of the teams seem interested. UNSOLD!
# New Zealand's Grant Elliot is up next. Again no bids. UNSOLD!
# Bangladesh's Mohammed Mahmuddullah is up next, with base price of Rs 30 Lakh. No bids for him.UNSOLD!
# Sri Lanka's Dilruwan Perera is the first on the list with base price of Rs 30 Lakh. No bids. UNSOLD!
# The final session begins with a set of allrounders
# Last player of the set is Australia's Callum Ferguson. His base price is Rs 50 Lakh. No bids.UNSOLD!
# Another Indian veteran Wasim Jaffer is up for grabs for Rs 30 Lakh. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# Former Indian batsman Hemang Badani is up for grabs at Rs 30 Lakh. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# West Indian youngster Adrian Barath is up next for Rs 30 Lakh. No bids again. UNSOLD!
# Mohammad Kaif is the first player in this list, his base price of Rs 30 Lakh. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# Another set of batsmen come up
# South Africa's Wayne Parnell, at a base price of Rs 1 crore, comes up. No takers. UNSOLD!
# New Zealand's Adam Milne is first in that list for Rs 30 Lakh. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# Another list of fast bowlers coming up
# Australian speedster Dirk Nannes is available for Rs 50 Lakh. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# Ryan McLaren, the South African all-rounder who played for KXIP before, is up for grabs at Rs 1 crore. No takers for him. UNSOLD!
# Aussie medium pacer Jackson Bird is up next at Rs 50 Lakh. No bids again. UNSOLD!
# Australia's 20-year-old Patrick Cummins is up for grabs at Rs 1 crore. No takers again. UNSOLD!
# First up is former CSK player Doug Bollinger at a base price of Rs 50 Lakh. He doesn't have any takers this year. UNSOLD!
# The next set of players is that of fast bowlers
# England's Dimitri Mascarenhas is next. The trend continues. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# Fervez Maharoof, Sri Lanka all-rounder who turned out for the Delhi Daredevils, is up next. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# Veteran Kiwi all-rounder Jacob Oram is up next for Rs 30 Lakh. No bids for the former CSK man.UNSOLD!
# South African all-rounder Vernon Philander for Rs 1 crore. No bids. UNSOLD!
# England's Samit Patel is the first in the list, no bids for him. UNSOLD!
# Next set of all-rounders is up for auction now.
# Australia's Luke Pomersbach, formerly a KXIP player, is up for grabs. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# West Indian Kieran Powell is up next. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# Australia's Travis Birt, who was formerly a part of Delhi Daredevils, is up next. But no bids for him this time. UNSOLD!
# South Africa's left-handed Dean Elgar is up for grabs Rs 50 Lakh. No bids. UNSOLD!
# Vaughan van Jaarveld is next. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# Australia's left-handed batsman Phil Hughes is up next for Rs 1 crore. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# Lahiru Thirimanne is up for grabs for Rs 50 Lakh. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# New Zealand's Colin Munro is up next. No takers again. UNSOLD!
# The first player in the final session is South African opener Richard Levi. He goes UNSOLD!
# The final session begins.
# After a ten minute break, the final leg of Day 1 of auctions will begin.
# The third Bangladesh player in the auction comes up, Sohag Gazi for Rs 30 Lakh.UNSOLD!
# South African veteran Nicky Boje is up for grabs for Rs 50 Lakh. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# West Indian Nikita Miller is next. No takers for him. UNSOLD!
# Australia's Pakistan-born spinner Fawad Ahmed is next. But no bidders again. UNSOLD!
# Ashley Nurse, another West Indian spinner up for grabs for Rs 30 Lakh. UNSOLD!
# Devendra Bishoo from West Indies is the first on the list for Rs 30 Lakh. UNSOLD!
# Next lot of spin bowlers are up for grabs now.
# Josh Hazlewood is up next and Mumbai Indians get him for the base price of Rs 50 Lakh.
# SOLD! Rajasthan Royals pick up Tim Southee for Rs 1.20 crores.
# Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings are going for Southee.
# New Zealand's pacer Tim Southee is next for Rs 50 Lakh.
# SOLD! Sunrisers Hyderabad get Jason Holder for Rs 75 Lakh
# Jason Holder, former Rajasthan Royals player, is up next at Rs 50 Lakh.
# Australian fast bowler Clint McKay up next but no takers. UNSOLD!
# Joginder Sharma, another former CSK pacer is next up at Rs 30 Lakh. No bidders. UNSOLD!
# SOLD! CSK bid for him and get him at base price.
# Ex-CSK pacer Ben Hilfenhaus is next for the base price of Rs 1 crore.
# SOLD! Rajasthan Royals get Richardson at base price.
# Australia's Kane Richardson is in for Rs 1 crore.
# Next up with Manpreet Gony with a base price of Rs 1 crore. No bids for him. UNSOLD!
# SOLD! Rajasthan Royals snap up Cutting for Rs 80 Lakh.
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