IPL T20 2011 Auction

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The IPL auction design seems to meet these requirements, especially since the addition of two new teams this year—Pune Warriors and IPL Kochi—was one reason why the sale prices for various players shot up. The highest salary paid to a cricketer has gone up from $1.5 million (Rs 6.82 crore) in 2008 to $2.4 million in 2011, partly because there were more bidders in the fray and some teams such as Kolkata Knight Riders were almost starting from scratch. However, the controversial episode when no Pakistani player was bid for in 2010 stinks of collusion.

The biggest surprise of the IPL 4 auction should belong to the two Indian cricketers selected for some of the most exorbitant prices.

Ravindra Jadeja and Abhishek Nayar went for costs that would have shocked most cricket fans. Jadeja was often touted as an all-rounder but has never lived up to those expectations. In fact, looking at his batting, one can easily say that he is no longer a batsman – just a decent spinner who can bat a little.

And yet, he was bought for a price of $950,000 by Kochi. It must be said that it was not the only mistake that they had made in the entire auction!

Speaking of Nayar, it is even a worse situation. He can neither hold his spot in the team as a batsman or as a bowler. He is one of those bits and pieces cricketers who would have probably cost $100,000 had he been contracted. He is not young either.

Instead, Punjab went for him like he was the next Tendulkar in the making. And won him for a price of $800,000.

All the 20 players who got a wage hike of at least 1,000% were relative unknowns three years ago, when IPL started. They were all bought outside the auction and often for throwaway prices ranging from $15,000 to $50,000. About three-fourths of these players are Indians, including the likes of Virat Kohli, who was retained by Royal Challengers Bangalore for $1.8 million. Saurabh Tiwary was discovered by Mumbai last year but was purchased by Bangalore for $1.6 million this year. Among the other emerging stars, there are five overseas players. Australian David Warner returned to his team Delhi Daredevils for $750,000, some 37 times the wage he received in the previous edition of IPL. Pune bought Sri Lankan Angelo Mathews for $950,000 after he was discovered by Kolkata in the first year.

IPL T20 2011 Players Sold List:

Gautam Gambhir , Kolkata Knight Riders, $2.4 million

Dilshan Tillakaratne, Royal Challengers Bangalore, $650,000

Zaheer Khan, Royal Challengers Bangalore, $900,000

Ross Taylor, Rajasthan Royals, $1 million

Yusuf Pathan, Kolkata Knight Riders, $2.1 million

Kevin Pietersen, Deccan Chargers, $650,000

Mahela Jayawardene, Kochi, $1.5 million

Yuvraj Singh, Pune, $1.8million

AB de Villiers, RCB, $1.1 million

Sourav Ganguly, base price $400,000, unsold

Cameron White, Deccan Chargers, $1.1 million

Jacques Kallis, Kolkata Knight Riders, $1.1 million

Rohit Sharma, Mumbai Indians, $2 million

Andrew Symonds, Mumbai Indians, $850,000

Kumar Sangakkara, Deccan Chargers, $700,000

Adam Gilchrist, Kings XI Punjab, $900,000

Rahul Dravid, Rajasthan Royals, $500,000

Graeme Smith, Pune, $500,000

Robin Uthappa, Pune, $2.1 million

Johan Botha, Rajasthan Royals, $950,000

V.V.S. Laxman, Kochi, $400,000

Daniel Vettori, Royal Challengers Bangalore, $550,000

Brendon McCullum, Kochi, $475,000

S. Sreesanth, Kochi, $900,000

Chris Gayle, base price $400,000, unsold

Irfan Pathan, Delhi Daredevils, $1.9 million

R.P. Singh, Kochi, $500,000