The new Kochi team gobbled up VVS Laxman, McCullum, RP Sing, Mahela and Sreeshant.
There were no takers for Lara or Ganguly, may be they are too old !
353 players went under the hammer and total budget for the ten franchises is a whopping $ 90 million.
The number of bidders was ten, as Kochi and Pune emerged as the new franchisees. The battle royal was fought by Nita Ambani (MI), Vijay Mallya ( RC ), Subrato Roy ( Pune ) and GMR ( Delhi ).
Gambhir went for a whopping $ 2. 1 m. Bought by KKR.
Dilshan went for $ 650,000 . RC
Zaheer was bought for $ 900,000 by RC.
Y Pathan - 2.1 m - KKR.
R Taylor of NZ - RR - $ 1 m
K Pietersen of England - RR - $ 650,000
M Jayawerdene - 1.5 m - Kochi
Yuvraj - Pune - 1.8 m
Bram Villiers - RC - $1.1 m
When Sourav Ganguly was brought onto the auction table, jaws dropped and so far no takers for a reserve price of $ 400,000.
Cameroon White - DC - $ 1.1 m
R Sharma - $ 2 m - MI
Harbhajan and Symonds - $ 850,000
Sangakara - DC - $ 700, 000
Gilchrist - Punjab - $ 900,000
Dravid - $ 500,000 - RR
Laxman - $400, 000 - Kochi
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