Hechelle Gibbs and Brian Lara remain unsold, Saurabh Tiwary scooped up for a cool $ 1.6 million by Royal Challengers
4:03: Meanwhile, Kochi takes Smith for $200,000. James Franklin's up now, opening bid $100,000. Mubai Indians bid first, and he's sold.
4:00: West Indies Dwayne Bravo, his opening bid is $200,000. Stroke of good fortune for Chennai, they make the first bid, and they are the closing bidders! Bravo for $200,000. They're smiling, they can't believe it themselves.
3:54: Sri Lanka's Angelo Mathews, opening bid at $300,000. Kochi bids first, Pune raises the bar, King's XI take a shot, Kochi throws another line, so do King's XI, Deccan Chargers makes an entrance, the price by now is $550,000. Delhi Daredevils want Angelo now, Deccan Chargers not ready to give in. $800,000 on Angelo Mathews, Pune back in the ring, $850,000. Kochi back in action, $900,000. It's Pune Vs Kochi now. And Pune wins Angelo Mathews for $950,000.
3:50: Abhishek Nayar with an opening bid of $50,000. Brisk bidding, price is over $190,000, seconds later, Delhi bids $350,000. Deccan Chargers bid $400,000. It's not over yet. Royal Challengers bid $650,000. King's XI come in with $800,000. Remember, the base price was $50,000. And Nayar is sold, for $800,000.
3:48: Stuart Broad comes in with a high base price of $400,000. King's XI Punjab makes the opening bid and get their player unchallenged.
3:47: Al Hasan on the anvil. KKR take him for $450,000
3:45: Wright, another big name with a $400,000 base price remains unsold
3:38: Delhi Daredevils like Ravindra Jadeja more than Deccan Chargers does, $700,000. Surprise, sudden bidder, Kochi bids $ 750,00, Kochi taking on Delhi by the horns, $ 950,000 their latest bid for Jadeja, and they have him.
Do take a quick look at the team-wise list of players auctioned at the IPL player auction at the ITC Royal Gardenia Hotel here on Saturday evening is as follows. Brought to you swiftly and accurately by our sports correspondent K.C. Vijay Kumar
Team-wise at 3.35 p.m.:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir , $2.4 million; Yusuf Pathan, $2.1 million; Jacques Kallis, $1.1 million; Brad Haddin, $325,000.
Pune: Robin Uthappa, $2.1 million; Yuvraj Singh, $1.8million; Graeme Smith, $500,000; Tim Paine, $270,000.
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, $2 million; Andrew Symonds, $850,000; David Jacobs, $190,000.
Delhi Daredevils: Irfan Pathan, $1.9 million; David Warner, $750,000; Naman Ojha, $270,000.
Kochi: Mahela Jayawardene, $1.5 million; V.V.S. Laxman, $400,000; Brendon McCullum, $475,000; S. Sreesanth, $900,000; R.P. Singh, $500,000; Parthiv Patel, $290,000.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: AB de Villiers, $1.1 million; Dilshan Tillakaratne, $650,000; Zaheer Khan, $900,000; Daniel Vettori, $550,000; Saurabh Tiwary, $1.6 million.
Deccan Chargers: Cameron White, $1.1 million; Kevin Pietersen, $650,000; Kumar Sangakkara, $700,000; J.P. Duminy, $300,000; Shikhar Dhawan, $300,000.
Rajasthan Royals: Ross Taylor, $1 million; Rahul Dravid, $500,000; Johan Botha, $950,000.
King’s XI Punjab: Adam Gilchrist, $900,000; Shaun Marsh, $400,000; David Hussey, $1.4 million; Dinesh Karthik, $900,000.
Chennai Super Kings: Michael Hussey, $425,000; Wriddhiman Saha, $100,000.
3:38: Ravindra Jadeja comes under the hammer with an opening tag of $100,000. Chennai Super Kings is interested, the price tag went up to $350,000.
3:36: Bidding begins, James Hopes, base price $ 200,000. Delhi Vs Mumbai for Hopes. $350,000, Mumbai silenced, Delhi has Hopes.
Our sports correspondent Vijay Kumar has some thoughts on that glaringly conspicuous lack of bids for Brian Lara -
For a batsman, who was the lord of all he surveyed, Saturday afternoon’s uneasy silence when his name cropped up during the IPL player auction at the ITC Royal Gardenia Hotel here on Saturday, must have come as a shock. Brian Lara, regal willow-wielder and the owner of the highest individual score in Tests at 400 not out, is away in the West Indies but he will surely be aware of the sands of time catching up with him and his value as he remained unsold in the player-auction. Coming in at the top price band of $400,000, Lara, now 41 years old, had no takers.
3:30: Jacobs up next, $20,000 opening bid. No, I didn't miss a zero. Some brisk bidding, no doubt, price went up to $100,000 in seconds. This is really interesting, Mumbai Indians fought Royal Challengers and have pushed the price to $190,000. For better or worse, they have him.
3:26: Matt Prior, opening bid, $200,000. He remains unsold. And Mark Boucher remains unsold as well!
3:23: Meanwhile, bidding's stil on for young Tim Paine, $240,000 from Mumbai Indians, Pune bids $250,000, Mumbai ups it again, Pune's thining about it. $270,000 from Pune, bid against Mumbai. And Paine is sold, not without some pain to the bidders.
A quick overlook of the afternoon's auction, up until 3:00 pm, from our sports correspondent K.C. Vijay Kumar -
Team-wise
Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir , $2.4 million; Yusuf Pathan, $2.1 million; Jacques Kallis, $1.1 million.
Pune: Robin Uthappa, $2.1 million; Yuvraj Singh, $1.8million; Graeme Smith, $500,000.
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, $2 million; Andrew Symonds, $850,000.
Delhi Daredevils: Irfan Pathan, $1.9 million.
Kochi: Mahela Jayawardene, $1.5 million; V.V.S. Laxman, $400,000; Brendon McCullum, $475,000; S. Sreesanth, $900,000; R.P. Singh, $500,000.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: AB de Villiers, $1.1 million; Dilshan Tillakaratne, $650,000; Zaheer Khan, $900,000; Daniel Vettori, $550,000; Saurabh Tiwary, $1.6 million.
Deccan Chargers: Cameron White, $1.1 million; Kevin Pietersen, $650,000; Kumar Sangakkara, $700,000; J.P. Duminy, $300,000; Shikhar Dhawan, $300,000.
Rajasthan Royals: Ross Taylor, $1 million; Rahul Dravid, $500,000; Johan Botha, $950,000.
King’s XI Punjab: Adam Gilchrist, $900,000; Shaun Marsh, $400,000; David Hussey, King’s XI Punjab, $1.4 million.
Chennai Super Kings: Michael Hussey, $425,000;
Unsold players:
Sourav Ganguly, base price $400,000
Chris Gayle, base price $400,000
Jesse Ryder, base price $100,000
Herschelle Gibbs, base price $200,000
3:20: Australian Tim Paine, opening bid $100,000.
3:17: Kochi bids first for Brad Hadding, $200,000. The hammers up to make the sale, and a flurry of bids. Kochi forced to move up to $ 300,000. But KKR take him for $ 325,000.
3:13: Naman Ojha, do we have bids for Naman Ojha. Yes - 130, 140, 150, 160 and rising. King's XI take him for $ 270,000
3:11: Dinesh Karthik on sale now, $850,000 and counting. $900,000 from King's XI. Sold.
3:10: By the way, Chennai Super Kings took Hussy, for Rs. 1.95 crore.
3:08: Wriddhiman Saha goes next. Biddings open. $100,000 opening bid, and Chennai Super Kings take him without contest.
3:04: Parthiv Patel, $100,000 the start bid. Mumbai Indians $110,000, Kochi chips in, $170,000. Kochi willing to go to $260,000 for Patel. $ 290,000 and Kochi takes Parthiv Patel.
3:03: Wicketkeepers are up now, graham Manou of Australia starts with an opening bid of $50,000. Passed over.
3:01: Heads up, Brian Lara, starting bid, $ 400,000. Silence in the room, no one's bidding! He remains unsold! Looks like big names don't mean too much.
3:00: Looks like Delhi Daredevils have taken it away again, $ 750,000 for Warner. Sold.
2:59: Kochi had to give up their quarry a couple of time before, they seem a little more interested this time, in David Warner. $450,000 and counting.
2:53: Hussy's on, $ 1.4 mn, with the King's XI Punjab. And sold.
2:46: A little drama - Looks like King's XI Punjab bid just as the hammer came down. The auctioner asks if they think they bid on time, and says he can reopen the bidding at his discretion. And looks like he just did. Royal Challengers not giving up Tiwary yet, they snag him for $ 1.6 mn
2:43: Meanwhile, Saurabh Tiwary is upping the ante - $950,000 by Kochi and counting! And he's crossed the million mark - Royal Challengers - $ 1.4 mn. Sold. That is really impressive, espaecially with a base price of $ 100,000.
2:39: Shikhar Dhawan on the anvil, Deccan Chargers seem keen on Dhawan as well. And they have him for $300,000.
2:36: J.P. Duminy for $ 200,000 - KKR takes the bid, aftter what seems like a long time, others raise the bar, the ball back in KKR, stalls at 260, Deccan Chargers playing hard, it's back and forth, DC takes it up to $300,000, and Duminy goes to Deccan Chargers. Not a bad deal, he's a T20 asset.
2:33: Michael Hussy turning up the heat now, his price shoots up from $ 200,000 to $ 280,000 and rising
2:32: Herchelle Gibbs - openinh bid, 200,000 - goes unsold!
2:30: The first player to be auctioned post-luch session iss Jessie Ryder. Goes unsold, is passed on quite quickly.
Welcome to the post-lunch session of the IPL season IV auction. In the previous session, Gautam Gambhir was taken by Kolkata Knightriders for a whopping $2.4 mn. Talk about working up an apetite!
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