10-team IPL jigs first round
Jan. 10: With the IPL-4 having 10 teams, there was a fear that teams would end up playing more matches than in the past. But the IPL Governing Council has stuck to the 14-match formula, albeit with a
Super Sunday for Christian
Jan. 9: With the marquee players and top picks having been roped in on the opening day, the excitement at the IPL-4 auctions was understandably lower on the second day; it was a more a time of consoli
Chargers, crack unit
Jan. 9: Money well spent. Those three words best describe the Deccan Chargers approach to the IPL auction that concluded on Sunday. Assembling a line-up that can annihilate the opposition at a decent
Dan the man gets the charge
Jan. 9: If the first auction in 2008 was all about foreign flavour and beefing up the squads with an array of international stars, the 2011 event has been all about Indians. Of course, established per
The great Indian show
Jan. 9: By and large there were long moments of boredom as auctioneer Richard Madley read out the names with not even an iota of interest from the ten tables. It brings into question the IPL's decisio
IPL auction: Teams and list of players
The following is the list of IPL franchisees, players and their bid price auctioned at IPL-4.
Deccan Chargers
Dale Steyn: $1.2 million (200,000)
Cameron White: $1.1 million (300,000)
Kumar Sang
End of the road for Dada
Jan. 9: The most stunning aspect of the IPL-4 auctions was that it witnessed the end of a few cricketing careers. The re-auction of the unsold players was the last ray of hope for the likes of Sourav
English pay the price for being ‘too pricey’
Jan. 9: England players might have been on a high after winning the Ashes for the first time in Australia in 24 years. But their ‘high’ bid price at the IPL auction meant they lost out on the glitz an
Thrust on specialists, not all-rounders
Jan. 9: From its inception, the shortest form of the game was tipped to be the hunting ground of all-rounders. And the inaugural IPL auction only strengthened that belief.
But after three seasons and
Wanted young team: Mallya
Jan. 9: Having opted to overlook Rahul Dravid, Royal Challengers Bangalore owner Vijay Mallya pr-ovided an insight into their strategy saying they were focussing on a ‘young team’. Dravid didn’t have