Aussies may miss out on big money in IPL

The Australian cricketers may miss out on substantial sums this season as they have very limited window in playing for this years IPL. Some players like Haddin have 50-50 chances of playing as the Aussie team is touring Pakistan for the one day series in April. The pakistan tour is to be scheduled for a neutral venue for security reasons. Some of the Twenty20 players for Australia may leave in may because of the t20 world cup in england this year.

Shipla Shetty owns part of Rajasthan Royals

The Former Big Brother Winner and Bollywood Actresses owns 11% stake in the Rajasthan Royals with her partner Raj Kundra. She was very much exited about the new deal and will continue to be the brand ambassador for Rajasthan Royals.
A total of £368 million was spent by the Indian Investors last year.

IPL Auction Details

Full IPL list (base price in US dollars)

Australia: Aaron Bird (45,000), Brett Geeves (45,000), Bryce McGain (50,000), Daniel Harris (50,000), Dominic Thornely (50,000), George Bailey (50,000), Jonathan Moss (50,000), Michael Clarke (1,000,000), Michael Dighton (85,000), Michael Hill (50,000), Phil Jaques (100,000), Shane Harwood (75,000), Shaun Tait (250,000), Steven Smith (75,000), Stuart Clark (250,000).

Bangladesh: Mashrafe Bin Mortaza (50,000), Mohammad Ashraful (75,000), Shakib Al Hasan (75,000), Tamim Iqbal (50,000).

England: Andrew Flintoff (950,000), Kevin Pietersen (1,350,000), Luke Wright (150,000), Owais Shah (150,000), Paul Collingwood (250,000), Ravi Bopara (150,000), Samit Patel (100,000).

New Zealand: James Franklin (50,000), Jesse Ryder (100,000), Kyle Mills (150,000).

South Africa: Gulam Bodi (100,000), JP Duminy (300,000), Morne van Wyk (100,000), Tyron Henderson (100,000), Yusuf Abdullah (25,000).

Sri Lanka: Chamara Kapugedera (150,000), Kaushalya Weeraratne (50,000), Nuwan Kulasekara (100,000), Thilan Thushara (100,000).

West Indies: Dwayne Smith (TBC), Fidel Edwards (150,000), Jerome Taylor (TBC), Kemar Roach (50,000), Kieron Pollard (60,000).

No players from Pakistan in IPL:Modi

IPL chairman Lalit Modi has confirmed that no Pakistan player would participate in the second edition of the Indian Premier League.

Earlier, Pakistan Cricket Board has advised their players not to travel to India as the situation is not appropriate amidst all the tensions involved because of the Mumbhai blasts

Five Pakistan cricketers--Yasir Hameed, Yasir Arafat, Asim Kamal, Danish Kaneria and Mohammad Hafeez--were due to appear in the IPL player auction at the Indian state of Goa on February 10.

KP to go for 2 millions in IPL auction

Kevin Pieterson is expected to go for 2 million in the bangalore Auction to be held on friday. The millionaire Vijay mallya of Bangalore Franchise is already interested in buying Pieterson for 2 million.

Official Website of all the IPL teams.

Bangalore Royals
http://www.royalchallengers.com/

Chennai SuperKings
http://www.chennaisuperkings.com/

Deccan Chargers
http://www.deccanchargers.com

Delhi DareDevils
http://www.delhidaredevils.com/

Kolkatta Knight Riders
http://www.kolkataknightriderssrk.com/

Mumbhai Indians
http://www.themumbaiindians.com/

Punjab Kings
http://www.kingsxipunjab.com/

Rajasthan Royals
http://www.rajasthanroyals.com/

Deccan Chargers are not Selling the IPL team

Deccan Chargers are not selling their IPL team as there are no buyers. The Deccan Chargers bought the team for 107 million dollars in 2008. They want to review the decision again in 3 years.

The Deccan chargers Team stood last in the last edition of IPL.

Source : Reuters

Kevin Pieterson can be the best paid Cricketer in the world for IPL

Kevin Pieterson can become the best paid cricketer in the world after his auction price is estimated to be around $1.3m (£915,000). It is set to exceed Dhoni's price of $1.5m in the auction.

He has already held talks with Bangalore Royals during the one day series in India and few other franchises are already competing for that.

Interesting to see.

IPL replacement Guidelines

IPL guidelines for replacements during the Auctions

http://cricketnext.in.com/news/ipl-lays-down-guidelines-for-replacements/37769-13.html

England Players to participate in IPL

After all the tension related to the contracts, England Players have finally decided to play IPL.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=Cricket&id=c0a885af-1342-4711-a81b-c9e6f1f62c45&&IsCricket=true&Headline=England+players+to+participate+in+IPL+auction

Ravinder Jadeja: The Rock star of Indian Cricket

Shane Warne comments that Ravinder Jadeja is the Rock Star of Indian Cricket in the coming years..Will need to wait and see..He is already in the India Tour of Srilanka starting tommorow.



http://cricket.zeenews.com/fullstory.aspx?nid=17080/

13 England players in the IPL List.

Darren Gough and Shaun Udal are the surprise names in the IPL auction list to be held in February 6th 2009 in Goa.

The others include Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff, Kevin Pietersen, Monty Panesar, Owais Shah and Ryan Sidebottom. Samit Patel and Ravi Bopara

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/jan/27/indian-premier-league-darren-gough-andrew-flintoff-kevin-pietersen-udal-key-foster/

Victorian fast bowler has been signed in IPL

Fast Bowler Nannes from Victoria has been signed into Delhi DareDevils.

The other australians in the team are David Warner(opener),Andrew McDonald,McGrath and Brett Greeves.

The coach for Delhi Daredevils is Greg Shipperd from Victoria