List of Players in 2012 IPL Auction

List of Players in IPL 2012 Players' Auction
Player	Country	Specialisation	Previous IPL teams	Base Price	Status
James Anderson	England	Bowler		$300000	Unsold
Ravindra Jadeja	India	All-rounder	RR/KTK	$100000	CSK ($2m)
Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	Batsman	KXIP/KTK	$300000	DD ($1.4m)
Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	Wk/Batsman	KKR/KTK	$400000	KKR ($900,000)
Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	Bowler	CSK/KTK	$200000	RCB ($220,000)
Adrian Barath	West Indies	Batsman	KXIP	$50000	Unsold
Ian Bell	England	Batsman		$200000	Unsold
Darren Bravo	West Indies	Batsman		$100000	DC ($100,000)
Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa	Batsman	DC	$50000	MI ($50,000)
Bradley Hodge	Australia	Batsman	KTK/KKR	$200000	RR ($475,000)
Tamim Iqbal	Bangladesh	Batsman		$50000	Unsold
VVS Laxman	India	Batsman	DC/KTK	$400000	Unsold
Ramnaresh Sarwan	West Indies	Batsman	KXIP	$100000	Unsold
Owais Shah	England	Batsman	DD/KKR/KTK	$200000	Unsold
Upul Tharanga	Sri Lanka	Batsman		$50000	Unsold
Mark Boucher	South Africa	Wk/Batsman	RCB/KKR	$100000	Unsold
Dinesh Chandimal	Sri Lanka	Wk/Batsman		$50000	RR ($50,000)
Parthiv Patel	India	WK/Batsman	CSK/KTK	$200000	DC ($650,000)
Matt Prior	England	Wk/Batsman		$200000	Unsold
Brendan Taylor	Zimbabwe	Wk/Batsman		$100000	Unsold
Ravi Bopara	England	All-rounder	KXIP	$100000	Unsold
Doug Bracewell	New Zealand	All-rounder		$50000	DD ($50,000)
Mitchell Johnson	Australia	All-rounder		$300000	MI ($300,000)
Justin Kemp	South Africa	All-rounder	CSK	$100000	Unsold
Kevin O'Brien	Ireland	All-rounder		$50000	Unsold
Andre Russell	West Indies	All-rounder		$50000	DD ($450,000)
Marlon Samuels	West Indies	All-rounder		$100000	Unsold
Steven Smith	Australia	All-rounder	RCB / KTK	$200000	Unsold
Dwayne Smith	West Indies	All-rounder	DC / MI	$100000	Unsold
Luke Wright	England	All-rounder		$200000	Unsold
Fidel Edwards	West Indies	Bowler	DC	$100000	Unsold
Vernon Philander	South Africa	Bowler		$200000	Unsold
Ravi Rampaul	West Indies	Bowler		$100000	Unsold
Peter Siddle	Australia	Bowler		$200000	Unsold
Rudra Pratap Singh	India	Bowler	DC/KTK	$200000	MI ($600,000)
VRV Singh	India	Bowler	KXIP	$100000	Unsold
Tim Southee	New Zealand	Bowler	CSK	$100000	Unsold
S Sreesanth	India	Bowler	KXIP/KTK	$400000	RR ($450,000)
Lonwabo Tsotsobe	South Africa	Bowler		$50000	Unsold
R Vinay Kumar	India	Bowler	RCB/KTK	$100000	RCB ($1m)
Xavier Doherty	Australia	Bowler		$100000	Unsold
Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka	Bowler		$50000	Unsold
Brad Hogg	Australia	Bowler		$100000	RR ($180,000)
Ajantha Mendis	Sri Lanka	Bowler	KKR	$50000	Unsold
Sunil Narine	West Indies	Bowler		$50000	KKR ($700,000)
Stephen O'Keefe	Australia	Bowler	KTK	$100000	Unsold
Robin John Peterson	South Africa	Bowler		$100000	MI ($100,000)
Ramesh Powar	India	Bowler	KXIP/KTK	$100000	KXIP ($160,000)
Graeme Swann	England	Bowler		$400000	Unsold
Daniel Harris	Australia	Batsman		$50000	DC ($70,000)
Michael Klinger	Australia	Batsman	KTK	$50000	Unsold
Richard Levi	South Africa	Batsman		$50000	Unsold
Alviro Petersen	South Africa	Batsman		$100000	Unsold
Lendl Simmons	West Indies	Batsman		$50000	Unsold
Kevon Cooper	West Indies	All-rounder		$50000	RR ($50,000)
James Faulkner	Australia	All-rounder	PWI	$100000	KXIP ($190,000)
Robert Frylinck	South Africa	All-rounder	DD	$50000
Farveez Maharoof	Sri Lanka	All-rounder	DD	$50000	Unsold
Azhar Mahmood	England	All-rounder		$100000	KXIP ($200,000)
Jeevan Mendis	Sri Lanka	All-rounder		$20000
Jacob Oram	New Zealand	All-rounder	CSK/RR	$100000	Unsold
Thisara Perera	Sri Lanka	All-rounder	CSK/KTK	$50000	MI ($650,000)
Merchant de Lange	South Africa	Bowler		$50000	KKR ($50,000)
Moises Henriques	Australia	All-rounder		$50,000	Unsold
Ben Laughlin	Australia	Bowler		$50000	Unsold
Ryan McLaren	South Africa	Bowler	MI/KXIP	$100000	Unsold
Nicky Boje	South Africa	Bowler		$200000	Unsold
Jacques Rudolph	South Africa	Batsman		$20000	Unsold
Andy McKay	New Zealand	Bowler		$50000	Unsold
Alister McDermott	Australia	Bowler		$20000	Unsold
Michael Neser	Australia	Bowler		$50000	Unsold
The given below players have not been considered for the IPL players' auction
Lee Carseldine	Australia	All-rounder	RR	$50000
Dillon Du Preez	South Africa	All-rounder	RCB	$50000
Kosala Kulasekara	Sri Lanka	All-rounder		$20000
Aaron O'Brien	Australia	All-rounder		$20000
Dilruwan Perera	Sri Lanka	All-rounder		$20000
Sachithra Senanayake	Sri Lanka	All-rounder		$20000
Daryn Smit	South Africa	All-rounder		$20000
Jon-Jon Smuts	South Africa	All-rounder		$20000
Prosper Utseya	Zimbabwe	All-rounder		$50000
Ian Butler	New Zealand	Bowler		$50000
Shane Harwood	Australia	Bowler	RR	$50000
Josh Hazlewood	Australia	Bowler		$20000
Simon Jones	England	Bowler		$100000
Krishmar Santokie	West Indies	Bowler		$20000
Thilan Thushara	Sri Lanka	Bowler	CSK	$20000
Johan van derwath	South Africa	Bowler	RCB	$50000
Gulam Bodi	South Africa	Batsman		$20000
Mal Loye	England	Batsman		$50000
Tinotenda Mawoyo	Zimbabwe	Batsman		$20000
Tom Maynard	England	Batsman		$100000
Keegan Meth	Zimbabwe	Batsman		$20000
Robert Nicol	New Zealand	Batsman		$50000
Lahiru Thirimanne	Sri Lanka	Batsman		$20000
Vaughn Van Jaarsveld	South Africa	Batsman		$20000
Trent Copeland	Australia	Bowler		$20000
Ben Cutting	Australia	Bowler		$100000
CJ de Villiers	South Africa	Bowler		$20000
Ben Edmondson	Australia	Bowler		$50000
Rory Kleinveldt	South Africa	Bowler		$50000
Adam Milne	New Zealand	Bowler		$20000
Nuwan Pradeep	Sri Lanka	Bowler	RCB	$20000
Ahmed Amla	South Africa	Batsman		$50000
Farhaan Behardien	South Africa	Batsman		$20000
Jonathan Carter	West Indies	Batsman		$20000
Tim Cruickshank	Australia	Batsman		$20000
Henry Davids	South Africa	Batsman		$20000
Peter Forrest	Australia	Batsman		$50000
Ashton May	Australia	Batsman		$20000
Ben Rohrer	Australia	Batsman		$20000
Jason Roy	England	Batsman		$50000
Craig Thyssen	South Africa	Batsman		$20000
Chamara Kapugedera	Sri Lanka	Batsman	CSK	$50000
Usman Khawaja	Australia	Batsman		$50000
Morne van Wyk	South Africa	Batsman/Wk	KKR	$100000
Lou Vincent	New Zealand	Batsman		$50000
Adam Voges	Australia	Batsman	RR	$100000
Andre Fletcher	West Indies	Wk/Batsman		$20000
Niall O'Brien	Ireland	WK/Batsman		$50000
Denesh Ramdin	West Indies	Wk/Batsman		$100000
Luke Ronchi	Australia	Wk/Batsman	MI	$50000
Daniel Smith	Australia	Wk/Batsman		$20000
Rikki Clarke	England	All-rounder		$200000
Jade Dernbach	England	Bowler		$100000
Dilhara Fernando	Sri Lanka	Bowler	MI	$100000
Kyle Mills	New Zealand	Bowler		$100000
Chris Tremlett	England	Bowler		$200000
ChanakaWelegedara	Sri Lanka	Bowler		$50000
Samuel Badree	West Indies	Bowler		$20000
Sulieman Benn	West Indies	Bowler		$50000
Devendra Bishoo	West Indies	Bowler		$50000
Paul Harris	South Africa	Bowler		$20000
Aaron Heal	Australia	Bowler		$20000
Jason Krejza	Australia	Bowler		$50000
Stuart MacGill	Australia	Bowler		$100000
Raymond Price	Zimbabwe	Bowler	MI	$100000
Imran Tahir	South Africa	Bowler		$100000
Cameron Borgas	Australia	Batsman		$50000
Tom Cooper	Holland	Batsman		$50000
Charles Coventry	Zimbabwe	Batsman		$50000
Daren Ganga	West Indies	Batsman		$100000
Thilina Kandamby	Sri Lanka	Batsman		$20000
Hamilton Masakadza	Zimbabwe	Batsman		$50000
Neil McKenzie	South Africa	Batsman		$100000
Andrew Puttick	South Africa	Batsman		$20000

Australia draw first blood

Australia overwhelmed India by 65 runs in the opening tri-series international at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The tourists were bowled out for 151 - plus a performance unimpressive batting - chasing 217 under the Duckworth-Lewis method.

The competition was reduced to 32-more-by-side following the loss Over three hours of play due to rain.

India has a horrible start with both their openers - Sachin Tendulkar and Gautam Gambhir - back to the pavilion for just 13 runs. Mitchell Starc did the cleanup work to Australia in his first two overs.

However, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma dealt positively with the best of the Australian attack before being undone in spectacular fashion by Clint McKay - who took two wickets in three balls. The tone suddenly came to life, runs dried up and the limits almost disappeared after the double blow in the 12th over.

Suresh Raina came and went as if he had some unfinished business left in the locker room. Needless to say - was that the ball short again.

It was now left on the shoulders of the responsible MS Dhoni and million dollar man Ravindra Jadeja but the pair had no Indian response to changes in the balance of Australia's pace attack four fronts, supported by subtle adjustment of Xavier Doherty. Together, they managed 37 runs for the sixth wicket in 49 balls. The required run-rate rose to 10.98 and was only a matter of time before they folded as they have for a long time now.

McKay was head of the Australian destroyer taking four for 20 off 4.4 overs.

Earlier, Australia were 35 for two after 11 overs when rain fell. But the home team came out on fire after stopping time by adding 181 runs in 21 overs.

India, after recording his first victory of a miserable tour at the same venue on Friday, started on a positive note. Vinay Kumar rocked the home team early with two quick goals - David Warner (6) and Ricky Ponting (2) - with the scoreboard reading 19/2 in 7.5 overs. Vinay, who raised $ 1.0 million of the Royal Challengers Bangalore, IPL 2012 auction yesterday, dismissed Warner and then accounted for Ponting in his five most hostile in the first place.

Warner fell to a left handed shot irresponsible, trying to force a good length delivery from Kumar and lose it completely. Soon after, the young paceman produced a sharp rise delivery that caught Ponting in two minds as the right-handed Suresh Raina played straight, which had no trouble in gathering it in the area of ​​coverage. Figures Vinay read 5-0-8-2 before the interval rain.

U-Turn

However, the breaking was any side of house needed. They returned with a vengeance and gathered clues at will. Matthew Hussey brothers Wade and flipped the switch, ran fast and scored double limits as often as possible. Australians specially targeted Gautam Gambhir in the outfield - which has the strongest weapons.

The visitors took just 21 deliveries to get rid of-form Michael Clarke (10), but Wade - making his debut - and senior Hussey together 73 runs for the fourth wicket with Strokeplay aggressive. Wade followed his big-hitting Twenty20 series with the belligerent 67 off 69 balls with six four two fours before edging one to the stumps.

Michael then joined by David continued to accumulate misery upon the Indians with stunning race between the wickets and scored boundaries at will before falling to deep square leg Vinay. David followed suit in the cuttings collection execution and opened a Quickfire unbeaten 61 off just 30 balls including two sixes in the final over off Ravindra Jadeja for the Australians have to score at 6.75 runs an over.

The home team took its fiftieth second, third and fourth shaft is 30, 33 and 35 balls respectively. The first fifty runs came in 14.6 overs.

Up to eight pitchers were used by Dhoni - with spinners go to the abundance of leaf wetness. Only Vinay returned with impressive figures of 3 for 21 in seven overs.

India made one change to win Friday's Twenty20 eight wicket over Australia resting opener Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar including the line-up - which is still searching for his elusive 100th international century. Wicket-keeper Matthew Wade and versatile Dan Christian made his ODI debut for Australia. The second match of the tri-series between India and Sri Lanka will be played in Perth on February 8.

IPL auction 2012: Chennai Super Kings bags Ravindra Jadeja for nearly 10 crores

India and Baroda multipurpose Ravindra Jadeja on Saturday expectedly turned out to be the biggest attraction for the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises, but it was the India Cements owned Chennai Super Kings who could sack him for a whopping two million dollars (approximately Rs. 9.72 crore) in the auction of players for the fifth edition of Indian Premier League here.

The 23-year-old, whose base price was $ 100,000, went to Chennai after the tie-breaker clause was invoked when two teams-and CSK Deccan Chargers-bid the maximum (two million U.S. dollars) for the player Saurashtra.

Both franchises were invited to offer a secret value in the tie-breaker and was able to Chennai Deccan overcome this.

But the cricketer is going to be paid $ 950,000 in accordance with the contract it had signed with the now dissolved tuskers Kochi Kerala last year and even secret that the amount was offered to him by Chennai go to the coffers of BCCI.

Former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene, incidentally KTK captain last season, was also a big draw will Delhi Daredevils for $ 1.4 million (approximately Rs.6.8 crore).

Jayawardene, however, get 1.5 million dollars according to his contract last year.

New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman Brendon McCullum was bought for $ 900,000 by Kolkata Knight Riders. Price McCullum basic was $ 400,000.

Indian stumper Parthiv Patel was for $ 650,000 to Deccan Chargers, which was fairly high base price of $ 200,000.

Veteran Indian batsman VVS Laxman, who was a huge disappointment during the recent test series against Australia, went unsold in the auction along with England's James Anderson, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara and Matt Prior, West Indies' Ramnaresh Sarwan, Bravo and Adrian Barath Darren and Mark Boucher of South Africa.

Dhoni gets vote of confidence from former skippers

Offer to remove Mahendra Singh Dhoni India captain a "best" candidate can be found is a noble gesture as unfortunate run the team as test, but several former commanders believe that the wicketkeeper is still the best man for the job .

Under Dhoni, India won the Twenty20 (2007) and over 50-Cups (2011) World Cup and also became the team of top-ranked test, which led many observers to greet him the country's greatest leader ever.

In less than one year from India reached those heady heights, the evaluation was reviewed after India test eight consecutive defeats abroad, Dhoni under seven, and some believe that the side needs a new captain in larger format of the game.

Former captain Wasim Akram of Pakistan, however, is not among them.

"Captain-bashing is a favorite pastime of cricket experts in the Indian subcontinent and the media loves it," Akram wrote in his column for www.espnstar.com.

"I think Dhoni is the best man to lead India and will remain so in the immediate future," wrote the former player, considered one of the greatest left-arm bowlers the game has seen.

Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar agreed.

"In my opinion, it is still the best bet," Gavaskar told NDTV channel, hailing Dhoni ad to make way for a suitable candidate, after his team has blanked in Australia.

"Dhoni must have felt it deeply, losing 4-0. So, what he meant is that he is ready to play a captain in the BCCI (Indian board) may have one, and that is exactly what you expect team of a man like him, "Gavaskar said.

Former Australia captain Steve Waugh also saw no logic in demand to replace Dhoni.

"... There is no point in changing captains for the sake of it," Waugh wrote in a column that appeared in Wednesday's Times of India newspaper.

Especially if it meant relying swashbuckling opener Virender Sehwag with the duty, as was suggested in the Indian media.

"I do not think Sehwag proved the inspiration, accountability, and so to assume the mantle now, and truth be told, I'm disappointed with the way he has to shoulder its responsibility in the series," said Waugh.

With Dhoni serving a one-game suspension because of the slowness of the team about the rate in the previous test in Perth, Sehwag led India in the fourth and final race in Adelaide, Australia, where he won by 298 runs to complete the rout.

Akram also laughed at the suggestion.

"What to do to save Sehwag pride of India in Adelaide? Sometimes I see traces of (Pakistan-all) Shahid Afridi to Sehwag. This terrible propensity for self-destruction," he said.

Kenya promise high-level security for Ireland

Cricket Kenya on Thursday promised high level security to Ireland for a period of four days and two Intercontinental Cup one-day international starting next week.

The games, which also include three Twenty-20 matches will be played in the city of Mombasa on the Indian Ocean from February 12-24.

The tour was confirmed on Tuesday by Cricket Ireland, which had already expressed concern about the security of the United Kingdom following a travel advisory on Kenya issued in January about a possible terrorist attack by the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab in Somalia. "We are delighted that Ireland has agreed to come. Cricket Kenya and the International Cricket Council (ICC) has been engaged in organizing a plan of high-level security for the team during the tour for two weeks," said Cricket Kenya chief executive Tom Sears.

"Ireland is a very strong team and is currently the team one day, and Kenya-top has the privilege to be playing them at the beginning of the year," said Sears.

After touring Kenya Ireland will travel to South Africa for a training camp two weeks before the Twenty20 World Cup qualifying tournament in the UAE in March.

IPL not a distraction for England, says Strauss

England captain Andrew Strauss disagreed with the lucrative Indian league was a distraction to all that his team facing a 3-0 defeat against Pakistan in the third and final Test starting here from Wednesday.

Pakistan won the first two tests, the first here in the second and wickets for 72 runs in Abu Dhabi, to gain an unassailable 2-0 lead. And with Saturday's auction in the Indian Premier League (IPL) approaching, Strauss was asked if this would be a distraction for his players. "I certainly hope not. I think we had this condition before," said the England captain.

Names of several current cast members will appear in the auction to be held in Bangalore, with James Anderson, Ian Bell, Graeme Swann, Ravi Boparai, Matt Prior and Chris Tremlett favorite appears to be included.

See also: Line Stars in IPL auction

Stuart Broad, Eoin Morgan and Kevin Pietersen already have IPL contracts.

Strauss, who insisted that he does not want to participate in the Twenty20 Cup, remained in the background as his team faced a lime - the first in England and Pakistan test history. "Certainly I remember Test matches in the past when this has been appearing in the background - and is much in the background.

"I would be very, very surprised if any of our players had been anywhere else than his attention on the game at the time -. Especially after what happened over the last two Test matches is therefore not a major problem for us. "

"I think we have become very comfortable with the fact it is the ICC (International Cricket Council) have given our players to play in IPL window and that window is determined that the guys have to have enough time, when they return home to prepare for our next series. So, we all know where we are with it. Certainly I will not hold it against players who want to go there and play. Most of the best players from around the world are doing it. "

"I with my team as a test to make sure they get enough time to prepare for the series against West Indies that is coming. We are comfortable with that, we have to wait and see who is caught and how long it stays there. "

The annual cricket tournament IPL revolutionized when it burst onto the scene in 2008 with lucrative contracts for international players, matches short and glamor of Bollywood. But the IPL has been accused of showing poor of India in the recent five-day format, as they lost eight in a row away Tests - four each in England and Australia - last year.

Change of format, but no change in result for India

The format has changed, but the fortunes of India. In the first of two T20 International, Australia won again in the near absence of a challenge to India's batsmen who finished 31 short chasing 172. The damage was minimized by skipper MS Dhoni 48, but the competition had finished among the eight most when India were reduced to 53-4. This time, they were undone by the pace of Australia, but the spin bowling of 40 years, Brad Hogg and part-timer David Hussey.

India lost 13 of their last 14 international matches abroad, a huge concern since veterans under fire, had a hand in eight of them. They had young players in other games. Compare this with Hogg, who is making his international return in 2008 have retired. He was named in Australian T20 squad after a prolific run in the Big League Bash.

Australia's score was created by Matthew Wade breezy Hussey 72 and 42 that kept pace with David Warner had set up a fast 25. After India elected to bowl, there were two big takeaways innings Australia. The first was the energy and body language of the Indians in the field.

The generational difference was very noticeable: the tests, India has a resignation, calm excitement to your destination. But the limited overs squad is different. The average age of eleven Indians play in Sydney today is 26 years. They dived around, gave chase hard, and when wickets fell, they celebrated with palpable energy. When Rahul Sharma bled from the right hand after falling down a difficult return catch off Travis Birt, he left the park, has written up and returned to finish their overs. Unfortunately for India, energy ceased to exist since they came out to bat.

The second was the dismantling of Australia Indian spinners. Ravichandran Ashwin played some even Warner and Wade, who took and provided the model for attacking batting. His confident step forward was followed by a nice straight swing of the bat. The ANZ Stadium - hosting its first international cricket establishment today - has long straight boundaries, about 90 meters on both sides. But Wade and Warner could easily clear them several times. Wade scored three sixes, two Warner - including a switch-hit over extra-cover Ashwin.

This is in contrast to the defensive approach of Nathan Lyon India Test in Adelaide, and they played as spinners in Australia today. Australia finished the competition after taking three wickets in three overs. Gautam Gambhir mistimed a drive to cover, Virat Kohli hit a ball short to long-on, and Rohit Sharma - who had been waiting since December to play for India - the first ball rolled by a faster one from Hussey . The shot was taken to try and strike poor rotation. There were no partnerships at the top order. The young team has a lot to learn and it is unlikely things will get easier for them in one day internationals next.