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IPL Auction preview: Yuvraj star attraction; Mustafizur, Negi, Pant dark horses Veteran Yuvraj Singh and rookie all-rounder Pawan Negi could be among those who trigger a bidding war when 351 cricketers go under the hammer in the Indian Premier League (IPL) players’ auction on Saturday. Negi, who has just been named in the Indian team for the World T20 and is known to hit big sixes apart from his accurate wicket-to-wicket bowling, has a base price of only Rs 30 lakh. The 23-year-old is likely to fetch way beyond that amount when the eight franchises bid for players of their choice. [caption id=“attachment_2615236” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  All eyes will be on Yuvraj Singh as the IPL 2016 auction gets underway. Photo: Sportzpics / IPL[/caption] This year’s auction will see two new franchises – RPG owned Rising Pune Supergiants led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Intex mobiles’ Rajkot based team Gujarat Lions led by Suresh Raina. With a base price of Rs 2 crore, Yuvraj, who is the biggest Indian draw in the eight-player marquee bracket, has notched up the highest price at the two previous auctions for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Delhi Daredevils. It is expected that Yuvraj, along with Kevin Pietersen (Base Price of Rs 2 crore) are likely to hit the million dollar mark once again. Pietersen, who has a huge draw in India, is also a big name from the marketing perspective of all the franchises. Some of the lesser known names who could find franchises interested in them are Bangladesh left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman (BP Rs 50 lakh), who has enjoyed a lot of success against India, and stockily built Delhi wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant (BP Rs 10 lakh), who recently hit the headlines with the fastest 50 in the U-19 World Cup. With Indian players available at a premium, even mediocre performers like Dhawal Kulkarni and Stuart Binny, with base prices of Rs 2 crore, could see teams fighting for them. Irfan Pathan has always gone richer from every IPL auction and at a base price of Rs 1 crore, it may not be different this time. Among the foreign players, explosive New Zealander Martin Guptill, with a modest base price of Rs 50 lakh, may find takers along with Australia T20 captain Aaron Finch (BP Rs 1 crore) and South African speedster Dale Steyn. While a minimum of 16 and maximum of 27 players could be taken in each of the teams with a maximum of nine overseas players. Each team has a budget of Rs 66 crore for players’ salaries. Perennial woodenspooners Delhi Daredevils again have the maximum purse of Rs 37.15 crore to shop from while defending champions Mumbai Indians only have a kitty of Rs 14.40 crore. Sunrisers Hyderabad also have Rs 30.15 crore to shop for players while KKR will be able to spend Rs 17.95 crore. Kings XI Punjab have Rs 23 crore while Royal Challengers Bangalore have Rs 21.625 crore respectively. It will be interesting as to how Pune and Rajkot build their teams as they would be needing a minimum of 11 players and a maximum of upto 22 players with a purse of Rs 27 crore each. PTI
IPL auction as it happened: Negi costliest Indian player; Watson goes to RCB for INR 9.5 cr
Live updates and reaction to the IPL 2016 player auction in Bengaluru
 "IPL auction as it happened: Negi costliest Indian player; Watson goes to RCB for INR 9.5 cr")
Four players left in the auction. One last go for the franchises!
Farhaan Behardien to Kings XI Punjab for Rs 30 Lakhs
Akhil Herwadkar sold to Delhi Daredevils for the opening bid of Rs. 10 lakhs
Kshitiz Sharma goes unsold (poor chap: why did he have to re-re submitted?!)
in #IPLAuction
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) February 6, 2016
Crores (US$million)
9.50 (1.46) S Watson
8.50 (1.31) P Negi
7.00 (1.08) Yuvraj
7.00 (1.08) C Morris
6.50 (1.00) M Sharma
Adam Zampa is sold to RPSG for INR 30 lacs – made his Australia debut today!
Jaskaran Singh to play for Pune Supergiants, sold for Rs. 10 lakhs
Chama Milind sold to DD for INR 10 lacs
Vikas Tokas goes to RCB for Rs 10 lacs
Scott Boland is sold to RPSG for INR 50 lacs – Dhoni gets his Bollinger/Hilfenhaus? This is a very smart pick.
Vikramjeet Malik goes to RCB for INR 20 lacs
Pawan Suyal goes to Delhi Daredevils for INR 10 lacs
Well done my brother from the same mother 😘 congrats buddy to achieve big heights and @mipaltan Pandya are geared up 😊😊✌️
— hardik pandya (@hardikpandya7) February 6, 2016
Kane Richardson goes to RCB for INR 200 lacs
Samuel Badree picked up by RCB too for INR 50 lacs
Pragyan Ojha, James Pattinso remain unsold
Ashok Dinda will feature again in the IPL after all. Goes to Dhoni’s RPSG for Rs 50 lakhs
In two years, Dinda will be the new Nehra
— Karthik Lakshmanan (@lk_karthik) February 6, 2016
Deepak Punia to Mumbai Indias for Rs. 10 lakhs
Swapnil Singh is sold to KXIP for INR 10 lacs
SK Ahmed is sold to Delhi Daredevils for INR 10 lacs
Mumbai Indians have 26 players now on the roster, can only buy one more #IPLAuction
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) February 6, 2016
Wow, madness!
India player Hardik Pandya has a 10 lakh IPL contract.
— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) February 6, 2016
His lesser known brother Krunal gets 20 times that https://t.co/6hffb8MaYv
KP Kamath goes to Mumbai Indians for 1.4 crore after a stiff bidding war! (Genuinely do not know who that is)
Deepak Chahar to RPSG for 10 lakh.
All said and done, I think this is essentially great for the fringe talent in India.
The dynamics of what is essentially an Indian league. Little known but rated M Ashwin gets 4.5cr, KP gets 3.5cr!!
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) February 6, 2016
Karun Nair: My heart has been pounding. Many people were guessing how much money I will go for, so I stopped thinking about it.
— Arun Venugopal (@scarletrun) February 6, 2016
Manan Sharma is sold to KKR for INR 10 lacs
Shadab Jakati picked by Gujarat Lions for INR 20 lacs. Akshay Karnewar is sold to RCB for INR 10 lacs (think he is the guy who can bowl both left and right!). Aksh Deep Nath is sold to Gujarat Lions for INR 10 lacs.
Gujarat Lions filling up their squad spots now…
Here’s a quick guide to the uncapped Indians who struck jackpot at the IPL Auction
Andrew Tye is sold to Gujarat Lions for INR 50 lacs. Had a very good BBL and made his debut for Australia against India.
Nathan McCullum, Juan Theron go unsold
with the purchase of jason holder, KKR have 9 overseas players- can't buy any more #IPLAuction
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) February 6, 2016
Jason Holder to KKR for Rs 70L, Thisara Perera to RPSG for Rs 1 crore. Ben Cutting to SRH for Rs 50 L
The auctioneer was not kidding when he said the process will be acclerated. Phew.
Armaan Jaffer today...
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) February 6, 2016
64 in 55 balls in #U19WC for India U19
Rs 10 lakhs (US$ 15400) in #IPLAuction for Kings XI Punjab
A Firstpost familiar face Armaan Jaffer gets picked up by KXIP
Armaan Jaffer is sold to @lionsdenkxip for INR 10 lacs #IPLAuction
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) February 6, 2016
Umang Sharma to Gujarat for Rs 10 lacs. Peter Handscomb to RPSG Rs 30L, Jitesh to MI for Rs 10L.
Keep up, y’all.
OKAY WE ARE BACK! (Yes it’s not over yet)
Unsold players being considered now. It’s now Aaron Finch first & he goes to Gujarat Lions for Rs 1 cr
From Vedam Jaishankar in Auction hall in Bengaluru
TN leg spinner M Ashwin will join his teammate and namesake R Ashwin in the Rising Pune Supergiants team after being bought for a massive ₹4.5cr. M Ashwin is a specialist T20 spinner and is spoken of highly among cricketers. So RPSG may well chant “if R Ashwin don’t get you M will”
From Vedam Jaishankar in Auction hall in Bengaluru
Sources claim that Rahul Dravid could mentor Delhi this IPL season. He was with Rajasthan last few seasons. This perhaps explains Delhi’s interest In Karun Nair and Sanju Samson. But Pawan Negi at ₹8.5 cr is still a bit difficult to understand. Time and money are running out for Delhi
Where ever Dhoni goes, all he gets is a good spinner, two three pacemen who can't bowl at death and bunch of part timers.
— Vasanth 💫 (@gully_point) February 6, 2016
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