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IPL 2009 – How the teams stack up after the auction

Keeping the list to only key players of each team.
Royal Challengers
Kevin Pietersen, Jesse Ryder, Ross Taylor, Chanderpaul, Robin Uthappa, Kallis, Boucher, Dale Steyn, Bracken, Virat Kohli…..
Good Batting side.. Bowling department weak!
Chennai Super Kings
MS Dhoni, Flintoff, Albie Morkel, Jacob Oram, Hayden, Mike Hussey, Ntini, Muralitharan…
Good balanced team with bowlers, all-rounders and batsmen led by Captain Cool. [...]

IPL 2009 Auction update

Thilan Tushara picked by Chennai Super Kings for $140,000
Chennai made a bid for George Bailey, a Tasmanian batsman, for $50,000 and won it
The Bangladeshi players are not attracting buyers. Shakib, Ashraful and Tamim remain unsold
Mortaza is the first Bangladesh player sold for $600,000, bought by Kolkata Knight Riders
King’s XI Punjab snaps Bopara for $450,000
Ryder [...]

IPL 2009 – Players list and base price for auction

Australia: Aaron Bird ($45,000), Brett Geeves ($45,000), Bryce McGain ($50,000), Daniel Harris ($50,000), Dominic Thornley ($50,000), George Bailey ($50,000), Jonathan Moss ($50,000), Michael Dighton ($85,000), Michael Hill ($50,000), Phil Jacques ($100,000), Shane Harwood ($75,000), Shaun Tait ($250,000), Steven Smith ($75,000), Stuart Clark ($250,000).
Bangladesh: Mashrafe Bin Mortaza ($50,000), Mohammad Ashraful ($75,000), Shakib Al Hasan ($75,000), Tamim [...]

Ten Kiwis up for IPL auction

Ten New Zealander cricketers will be up for auction when the Indian Premier League holds its second annual auction next Friday.
Via TVNZ

114 cricketers for IPL’s second player auction

The Indian Premier League on Thursday announced a final list of 114 interested world cricketers for the second player auction to be held at Goa on February 6th 2009.
Via Rediff

England surprises on IPL list

Darren Gough and Dominic Cork are among 20 English players to be entered in the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) forthcoming auction. Current stars Ravi Bopara, Monty Panesar, Robert Key, James Foster, Sajid Mahmood, Matt Prior, Ian Bell, Paul Collingwood, Owais Shah, Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann, Luke Wright, Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff, Steve Harmison, James Anderson [...]

Kevin Pietersen to become the world’s richest cricketer as IPL bids start at $1.3m

Kevin Pietersen is set to become the world’s highest-paid cricketer next week when he is sold at the Indian Premier League auction with a reserve price of $1.3million (£915,000).
Via Telegraph

Reserve of $1m on Michael Clarke for IPL

AUSTRALIAN cricket’s original Twenty20 millionaire, Andrew Symonds, flies to Melbourne today to receive the first stage of his punishment for abusing Brendon McCullum, while teammate Michael Clarke must decide if he wants a million dollars to participate in the Indian Premier League competition.
Via TheAustralian

IPL players’ auction in Goa next month

The second Indian Premier League players’ auction will be held in Goa on February 6, its Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi announced on Friday.
Via CricketNext

Tait to make himself available for IPL auction

Shaun Tait, who went into a self-imposed exile last year complaining of fatigue, is roaring back to form and is expected to earn a seven-figure bonanza in the second edition of the Indian Premier League.
Via TOI