IPL Auction on Feb 6th for Season 2: 5 Pakistan players out of 111 players

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Pietersen leads list of 111 players for auction

The IPL has announced an exhaustive list of 111 overseas players who will be considered for the second auction in Goa on February 6. Not surprisingly, Australians dominate the list (27) while the big difference from last year’s edition is the addition of 19 England players,

Each franchise has a maximum of US$2m to spend on their overseas signings in the auction, which gets underway on February 6, and it is likely that only about 16 players - or two per franchise - will be chosen out of the 111.

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List of players for second auction

Australia: Brad Haddin, Michael Clarke, Nathan Hauritz, Stuart Clark, Brad Hogg, Beau Casson, Mark Cameron, Peter Forrest, Lee Carseldine, Doug Bollinger, Michael Dighton, Jason Krejza, Nathan Reardon, Chris Hartley, Shaun Tait, Ashley Noffke, Bryce McGain, George Bailey, Travis Birt, Michael Hill, Chris Swan, Michael Klinger, Ben Edmondson, Aiden Blizzard, Mark Cosgrove, Adam Voges, Shane Harwood

England: Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff, Steve Harmison, Ravi Bopara, Monty Panesar, Robert Key, James Foster, Sajid Mahmood, Matt Prior, Ian Bell, Paul Collingwood, Owais Shah, Darren Gough, Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann, Luke Wright, James Anderson, Ed Joyce, Dominic Cork

Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan, Mohammad Ashraful, Mashrafe Mortaza, Tamim Iqbal, Junaid Siddique, Mehrab Hossain jnr, Rajin Saleh, Ziaur Rehman, Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur Rahim, Raqibul Hasan, Nadif Chowdhury

New Zealand: Mark Gillespie, Tim Southee, Jesse Ryder, Jeetan Patel, Kyle Mills, Chris Martin, Jamie How, Peter Fulton, James Franklin

Pakistan: Asim Kamal, Mohammad Hafeez, Yasir Hameed, Danish Kaneria, Yasir Arafat

South Africa: Gulam Bodi, Rory Kleinveldt, Charl Langeveldt, Ashwell Prince, JP Duminy, Martin van Jaarsveld, Roelof van der Merwe, Andre Nel, Neil McKenzie, Yusuf Abdullah, Paul Harris, Johan Botha, Morne van Wyk, Tyron Henderson

Sri Lanka: Thilan Thushara, Nuwan Kulasekara, Mahela Udawatte, Dammika Prasad, Thilina Kandamby, Kaushalya Weeraratne, Jehan Mubarak, Dilhara Lokuhettige, Malinga Bandara, Malinda Warnapura, Michael Vandort, Prasanna Jayawardene, Upul Tharanga, Kaushal Lokuarachchi, Jeevantha Kulatunga

West Indies: Sylvester Joseph, Darren Sammy, Andre Fletcher, Kieron Pollard, Kieran Powell, Fidel Edwards, Dwayne Smith, Kemar Roach

Zimbabwe: Vusi Sibanda

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Re: IPL Auction on Feb 6th for Season 2: 5 Pakistan players out of 111 players

Bidding for any player (no matter how great) for more than 200,000 USD for 20/20 format game is insane to me.

20/20 is all tukkaybaazi - you can never bank on one player (no matter how great batsman or bowler) to win you 20/20 games on a consistent basis. That is the reason why unheard of Indian domestic players seemed to play as well as big International players in last year's IPL.

And to offer USD 650,000 to Robin Uthappa...

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Re: IPL Auction on Feb 6th for Season 2: 5 Pakistan players out of 111 players

England players are getting the payback for "standing up" to the terrorist threat and visiting India after the Mumbai attacks. Bravo.

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I am sorry but no player is worth a million $ for a few weeks of tullah baazi

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Most good players from other countries are already contracted to IPL. Wasnt England the only major cricket playing country to not be represented in IPL last year ? By default that would mean more England players would be available this time.

Timepass - November 2012
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bravery always pays back 10 folds.

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They made sure of it by sucking upto BCCI.

Wht r u doing ?
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rising sun get the salute...
setting sun gets the boot.

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I dont think they needed to suck up to BCCI. They would have been contracted last year had ECB not played spoilsport.

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Re: IPL Auction on Feb 6th for Season 2: 5 Pakistan players out of 111 players

i want to see which teams will buy pakistani players? don't really see anyone going after them with the current situation. infact players should have said NO looking at how indians are towards pak lately.

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^ Whose loss will it be ? :wink:

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there are things money can not buy,
for everything else there is master card!

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I agree,....how long is the league? 3-4 weeks?

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Re: IPL Auction on Feb 6th for Season 2: 5 Pakistan players out of 111 players

If you think about it, in a Twenty20 game , a batsman gets 4-5 overs on an average per game and a bowler not more than 4 overs.

Even an otherwise good bowler like Ishant Sharma, for example, cannot be expected to do anything outlandish in those 4 overs (per Twenty20 game) on a consistent basis to justify his USD 900,000 tag. And on top of all that - there is HUGE DOSE of LUCK involved in this format.

In these circumstances, I would rather hire some young aggressive domestic players who are eager to exhibit their flair on the world stage than pay millions to somebody like Pietersen who is in it only to make some money on the side and will not make much difference to the outcome anyways.