IPL: Season III

    Sport of Cricket’s money spinner and most lucrative Indian Premier League(IPL) which has just two season under its belt, yesterday kick start its activity for IPL: Season III by auction of sixty seven players from all the test playing countries and few players from associate members countries of International Cricket Council (ICC), but because all the franchise owners had few slot vacate to fill of foreign players, thus IPL franchises entitle to buy only 12 cricketers which include the one who have returned from the Indian Cricket League (ICL),and it was believe that they will go for players which would be available throughout tournament and will get clearance to play the tournament which can become problem for Pakistani players, these players will have one year contract for both IPL and Champions League Twenty20 that will be till December 31, 2010.
   Before the start of auction, IPL management had added clause relating to end deadlock if more then one franchise keep on bidding for any player then cap at 7,50,000 US$ will play its role and bidding franchises’ will bid secretly for the player but player will get only 7,50,000 US$ and above amount will go to the IPL plus successful bidding amount wont make public ever and it will remain secret. Below is the list of all the players who were auction yesterday –

• Australia- Brad Haddin, Philip Hughes, Doug Bollinger, Ashley Noffke, Adam Voges, Luke Pomersbach, Clint McKay, Graham Manou, Ben Laughlin, Jason Krejza, Damien Martyn.
• England- Tim Bresnan, Eoin Morgan, Robert Key, Anthony McGrath, Monty Panesar, Mark Ramprakash, Graeme Swann, Jonathon Trott.
• Pakistan- Shahid Afridi, Misbah-ul-Haq, Umar Gul, Imran Nazir, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Mohammad Aamer, Abdul Razzaq, Kamran Akmal, Umar Akmal, Saeed Ajmal, Sohail Tanvir.
• South Africa- Zander de Bruyn, Wayne Parnell, Tyron Henderson, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Rory Kleinveldt, Yusuf Abdulla, Vernon Philander, Johan van der Wath, Vaughn van Jaarsveld, Morne van Vyk, Justin Kemp.
• Sri Lanka-Nuwan Kulasekara, Nuwan Zoysa, Upul Tharanga, Thissara Perera, Thilina Kandamby, Kaushalya Weeraratne, Chamara Welegedara, Chinthaka Jayasinghe, Chamara Silva.
• West Indies-Kieron Pollard, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Daren Ganga, Lendl Simmons, Darren Bravo, Wavell Hinds, Kemar Roach, Sulieman Benn.
• New Zealand-Grant Elliott, Lou Vincent, Shane Bond, Nathan McCullum.
• Zimbabwe-Murray Goodwin
• Bangladesh-Shakib Al Hasan
• Canada- Rizwan Cheema
• Netherlands-Ryan ten Doeschate

and from above list , lucky players who are buy by different franchisees-

1. Damien Martyn at U.S.Dollor 100,000 buy by Rajasthan Royals
2. Adam Voges at U.S.Dollor 50,000 buy by Rajasthan Royals
3. Eoin Morgan at U.S.Dollor 220,000 buy by Royal Challengers
4. Mohammad Kaif at U.S.Dollor 250,000 buy by Kings XI Punjab
5. Shane Bond at U.S.Dollor 750,000 buy by Kolkata Knight Riders
6. Yusuf Abdulla at U.S.Dollor 50,000 buy by Kings XI Punjab
7. Justin Kemp at U.S.Dollor 100,000 buy by Chennai Super Kings
8. Wayne Parnell at U.S.Dollor 610,000 buy by Delhi Daredevils
9. Thisara Perera at U.S.Dollor 50,000 buy by Chennai Super Kings
10. Kieron Pollard at U.S.Dollor 750,000 buy by Mumbai Indians
11. Kemar Roach at U.S.Dollor 720,000 buy by Deccan Chargers
12. Ashok Menaria buy by Royal Challengers
13. Harmeet Singh buy by Deccan Chargers
14. Harshal Patel buy by Mumbai Indians

  IPL Season III is going to held from March 12 to April 25 in different cities of India and they are –

• Ahmdabad
• Banglore
• Chennai
• Delhi
• Dharamshala
• Hyderabad
• Jaipur
• Kolkata
• Mohali
• Nagpur
• Vizag

                                                                                              To be continue………..