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Round-2 auction highlights

Mar 14th, 2008 | By sandeeps | Category: News

The low profile round-2 auction for the players took place on Tuesday in Mumbai. It lacked the gala of the first round but there a few sparks because some valuable fringe players. As expected members of U-19 world cup squad dominated the auction with fixed fees of 30000 USD.. Bangalore franchise which was criticized after [...]

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IPL likely to hold round 3 of auctions

Mar 12th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

After the just concluded round 2 of auctioning off players, it looks like the BCCI is also going to hold round 3 of the auctions. Now that the IPL has gained so much hype and popularity already, many foreign players are ditching their home cricket boards to take part in the IPL. Another reason could [...]

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I wanna play IPL for Free !

Mar 10th, 2008 | By sandeeps | Category: News

The second round of auction is going to take place tomorrow and many of the franchisee (except Jaipur) are not so enthusiastic as they are at threshold or have crossed the max cap of 5 million USD kitty.
But the statement made by Australia’s fringe player Luke Pomersbach, who is in the second draft of [...]

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Round 2 auction next week?

Mar 5th, 2008 | By sandeeps | Category: News

After the historic auction on Feb-20, BCCI is planning to conduct second round of auction next week. According to a cricinfo report, the participants of this auction will be only the team management who have money left in their kitty. As we all know that the minimum cap is USD 3.3 million and the [...]

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Was the IPL auction fair?

Feb 21st, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: Top Stories

There has been a lot of hoppla about how the IPL auction went. Some people made some ridiculous amounts of money in that frenzied bidding. But now that the dust has settled down, I want to ask the question: Was the IPL auction conducted in the most optimal manner?
Look at some of the numbers. They [...]

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