Wednesday, February 20, 2008

IPL Bids..........................

Indian Premier League has planned to play many current and former international players in its 20-20 league matches which will be held this year.Many great players from different countries have been roped in to play these include 13 Australian players , 11 South African players and more.........
These players are auctioned and the team which bids the highest price gets that player in its team.These players have been auctioned to a whooping amount and the first phase of auctioning is over .The details of the contract of the players as follows:

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the wicket keeper batsman and the Captain of the Indian 20-20 and one day is the highest bided player so far.He will play for Chennai team for an amount of 1.5 million US$.He led the Indian team in the 20-20 world cup and won it.He is a dashing batsman.






Shane Warne , former Australian leg spinner will play for the Jaipur team. His contract amount is 450,000 US$. He is considered as the best leg spinner of all time.He is the second highest wicket taker in the test cricket with an impressive average.





Muthiah Muralitharan , the Srilankan leg spinner and the highest wicket taker in test cricket will play for Chennai team for an amount of 600,000US$. Though his constantly being critisiced for his bowling action, he is the best spin bowler in the world right now.





Shoaib Akthar, the Pakistani fast bowler is considered as the fastest bowler in the world will play for the Kolkata team for an amount of 425,000 US$. SRK wanted him to play in his team so he bid him the highest price. His aggression in the field is well known to the cricketing world.








Adam Gilchrist is considered as the best wicket keeper batsman ever too have played in the cricket so far. This Australian player will play for Hyderabad team for an amount of 700,000US$. He currently holds the highest dimissals in test cricket and his knock of 149 in the finals of 2007 world cup had helped Australians to win the world cup.







Mahela Jayawardene is the captain of the current Srilankan team . He will play for the Mohali team for an amount of 475,000 US$.He is one of the best batsmen in the world.










These are some of the players who have been contracted to play in an IPL team. There are more players who are yet to be picked in the IPL teams............

2 comments:

ramesh said...

its an amazing fact tat all the international players r goin to play in ipl ...
but d thing s it should not be a big flop...
it should be a learning curve for d youngsters and they should be brought in d team....
lets c wil ipl be succesful like county cricket ....
one sad thing//
if gilli had played for chennai team...it would have been awesome...

ARFI said...

ya missing many good players like gilly ya