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IPL adds more top players to list
Fourteen players have signed up to take part in a second 'auction' for the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL), with Pakistan batsmen Misbah-ul Haq top of the list.
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- Published: 17:15 March 11, 2008
- Misbah-ul Haq was auctioned off to Bangalore Royal Challengers in the Indian Premier League.
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New Delhi: The lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) has added Australian all-rounder James Hopes and Pakistan batsman Misbah-ul Haq to the list of top players being auctioned off.
14 players have signed up to take part in a second 'auction' for the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL).
The first England player to join IPL is Dmitri Masceranhas with a bid of $100,000, double the basic price set for the second and final phase of bidding for the Twenty20 league which was held in Mumbai.
Last month's auction did not have any England players.
In the initial multi-million dollar auction 75 cricketers, including many household names, were picked by eight franchises.
The following are the leading players involved:
- Dmitri Mascarenhas (England)
$100,000 - Jaipur - Shane Watson (Australia)
$125,000 - Jaipur - Sohail Tanvir (Pakistan)
$100,000 - Jaipur - Morne Morkel (South Africa)
$60,000 - Jaipur - James Hopes (Australia)
$300,000 - Mohali - Kyle Mills (New Zealand)
$150,000 - Mohali - Luke Pomersbach (Australia)
$50,000 - Mohali - Misbah-ul Haq (Pakistan)
$125,000 - Bangalore - Ross Taylor (New Zealand)
$100,000 - Bangalore - Abdur Razzak (Bangladesh)
$50,000 - Bangalore - Salman Butt (Pakistan)
$100,000 - Kolkata - Mohd. Hafeez (Pakistan)
$100,000 - Kolkata - Ashwell Prince (South Africa)
$175,000 - Mumbai - Brett Geeves (Australia)
$50,000 - Delhi
Following are the names of all the teams and their respective players for the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League.
Bangalore: Rahul Dravid (capt-IND), Jacques Kallis (RSA), Anil Kumble (IND), Cameron White (AUS), Zaheer Khan (IND), Mark Boucher (RSA), Nathan Bracken (AUS), Dale Steyn (RSA), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WIS), Wasim Jaffer (IND), Misbah-ul Haq (PAK), Virat Kohli (IND), Abdur Razzak (BAN), Ross Taylor (NZL), Shreevats Goswami (IND).
Chennai: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt-IND)), Jacob Oram (NZL), Suresh Raina (IND), Albie Morkel (RSA), Muttiah Muralitharan (SRI), Matthew Hayden (AUS), Michael Hussey (AUS), Stephen Fleming (NZL), Parthiv Patel (IND), Joginder Sharma (IND), Makhaya Ntini (RSA), Napoleon Einstein (IND), Abhinav Mukund (IND).
Delhi: Virender Sehwag (capt-IND), Gautam Gambhir (IND), Manoj Tiwary (IND), Mohammad Asif (PAK), Daniel Vettori (NZL), Dinesh Karthik (IND), Shoaib Malik (PAK), Glenn McGrath (AUS), Abraham de Villiers (RSA), Tillekeratne Dilshan (SRI), Farveez Maharoof (SRI), Pradeep Sangwan (IND), Brett Geeves (AUS).
Hyderabad: Venkatsai Laxman (capt-IND)), Andrew Symonds (AUS), Rudra Pratap Singh (IND), Rohit Sharma (IND), Adam Gilchrist (AUS), Shahid Afridi (PAK), Herschelle Gibbs (RSA), Chaminda Vaas (SRI), Scott Styris (NZL), Nuwan Zoysa (SRI), Chamara Silva (SRI).
Jaipur: Shane Warne (capt-AUS)), Yusuf Pathan (IND), Graeme Smith (RSA), Mohammad Kaif (IND), Munaf Patel (IND), Younis Khan (PAK), Justin Langer (AUS), Kamran Akmal (PAK), Dimitri Mascarenhas (ENG), Shane Watson
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