New Price Tag For Players In IPL 5
Auction has begin for players In IPL 5 and as expected Franchise Owners are ready to pay any amount just to get their favorite players in their team. A total of 146 players will be auctioned for the available 29 slots as the auction for the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League got underway in Bangalore.
Among players that were auctioned, Brendon McCullum was auctioned for $900,000 by Kolkata Knight Riders followed by the Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, who was purchased by Chennai Super Kings for whopping $2 million in a exciting Tie breaker. Sri Lankan master batsman Mahela Jayawardene has been bought by Delhi Daredevils for $1.4 million where as Muttiah Muralitharan was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore for $200,000.
Sahara India has expressed anguish over being denied replacement for injured Yuvraj Singh for the upcoming fifth edition of Indian Premier League. "It was an emotional decision for us to start this sponsorship but our emotions were never appreciated and many genuine situations were not given due consideration at all," Sahara said. In a shocking events they also requested BCCI to pass on Pune Warriors team to some other Interested party.
The auction was conducted by Richard Madley who is a professional auctioneer from England and has conducted each of the previous IPL player auctions.
