IPL 2 : Auction Results

KP, Freddie fetch record $1.55mn each

Indian Premier League franchisees, with a total budget of $13.59 million, will buy 17 players from a pool of 50 in the second edition of the players' auction here on Friday.

Hello and welcome to our coverage of the IPL season II auction from Goa. It promises to be one action-packed day. The teams and the players will both have their fingers crossed.

In Friday's auction, there are 18 players from Australia, seven from England, five from Sri Lanka, three from New Zealand, seven from South Africa, six from West Indies and four from Bangladesh would be up for grabs.

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Round 1

Rajasthan Royals buy Australian bowler Shaun Tait for $375,000.

Mumbai Indians bid $950,000 for South African batsman Jean-Paul Duminy.

Chennai Super Kings bid a record price of $1.55 million for England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff.

And the Bangalore Royal Challengers bid $1.55 million for former England captain Kevin Pietersen.

Pietersen and Flintoff have now become the costliest players in the IPL. The previous highest bid was for Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni, who had been bid last year for $1.5 million.

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Round 2

Deccan Chargers buy West Indies bowler Fidel Edwards for $ 150,000.

Delhi Daredevils buy England batsman Owais Shah for $275,000.

Delhi Daredevils buy former England ODI captain Paul Collingwood for $275,000.

At the end of this round no takers for: Brad Haddin, Stuart Clark, Chamara Kapugedera.

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Round 3

Rajasthan Royals buy South African all-rounder Tyron Henderson for $650,000.

King's XI, Punjab buy England all-rounder Ravi Bopara for $450,000.

Chennai Super Kings bid $140,000 for Sri Lankan bowler Thilan Thusara.

Bangalore Royal Challengers buy New Zealand batsman Jesse Ryder for $160,000.

Mumbai Indians buy New Zealand bowler Kyle Mills for $150,000.

At the end of this round no takers for: Phil Jaques, Ashwell Prince, Andre Nel, Luke Wright, Nuwan Kulasekara.

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Round 4

Deccan Chargers buy West Indies all-rounder Jerome Taylor for $100,000.

At the end of this round no takers for: Samit Patel, Shakib-Al-Hasan, Morne Wan Vyk, Jerome Taylor, Steven Smith, Ashley Noffke, Mohammad Ashraful and Darren Powell.

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Round 5

All players in this pool were unsold.

The list includes: Tamim Iqbal, Bryce McCain, James Franklin, Adrian Blizard, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Michael Klinger, S Weeraratne, Prasanna Jayawardene, Dominic Thornely.

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Round 6

Kolkata Knight Riders bid $600,000 for Bangladesh bowler Mashrafe Mortaza.

Chennai Super Kings buy Australia's George Bailey for $50,000.

At the end of this round no takers for: Yusuf Abdullah, Daniel Harris, Kemar Roach, Aaron Bird.

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At the end of the six rounds of bidding, only two teams Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab had a slot each for an overseas player. Each team can have a maximum of ten foreign players.

The two teams were asked to submit the names of two or three players, whom they wish to buy so that they can be put up for sale again.

Kings XI Punjab asked for West Indies bowler Jerome Taylor and will get him at his base price of $150,000, while Mumbai Indians get Bangladesh skipper Mohammad Ashraful for $75,000.

And that is the end of the IPL auction for the second season. Now, the action beckons!

source: cricketnext.in.com