bigdhoni7 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 symonds joins gilchrist with the hyderabad team. no doubt they will be the team that will draw the least amount of fans. huge waste of money... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunny Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 RP Singh and Lasith Malinga being under the Chennai scanner now Get one of Morne Morkel or Dale Steyn. They are as explosive as Malinga but you can get them for less money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HariSampath Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Chennai going to focus on 2 more Int'l players and 3 Indian players now ( just some inside news I heard) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunny Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 symonds joins gilchrist with the hyderabad team. no doubt they will be the team that will draw the least amount of fans. huge waste of money... Yeah they don't have any good Indian players right now...They should gor for Ishant. That will help them a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhr123 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Yeah they don't have any good Indian players right now...They should gor for Ishant. That will help them a lot. I hope kolkata picks him up...to give a real fight to Hyd and Chennai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunny Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Not sure if Vettori was worth that amount. Vettori is the best 20-20 bowler. He was probably one of the few players along with Oram who went for their fair value... Now, I think teams will underbid for Smith, Gibbs and Gayle...and whoever grabs them has some seriously good brains working for them.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rohan495 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 hey how does the reserve pool work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdhoni7 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 i think hyd will play it smart and get laxman for whatever he's worth. more than symonds definitely but that won't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HariSampath Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Chennai actually were lucky that they didn't have a marquee player. Same with Hyderabad. Exactly...we did not have any Icon player that we were stuck with, so our $5 millions was a free and flexible budget. But teams like Kolkatta, Bangalore etc are stuck with Ganguly and Dravid, and so are limited by price considerations....also as the Icon players get 15% more than the next highest paid, this automatically meant that these teams could NOT bid 1 million plus for any great Int'l ODI like Symonds, Dhoni etc, that will mean 2+ millions just for Ganguly and one star...and either way its a lose-lose situation. Only the icon player gains, if he promotes the price of the next highest player. Both Dravid and Ganguly have boosted their own prices by boosting bids for other Int'l players :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdhoni7 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 further proof cricinfo is biased for the australian team: Ricky Ponting and Mathew Hayden didn’t draw too much of money, their tour to Pakistan could have had something to do with it. yeah great logic there, otherwise symonds wouldnt have been sold for over a million now would he? morons. :haha: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunny Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Exactly...we did not have any Icon player that we were stuck with' date=' so our $5 millions was a free and flexible budget. But teams like Kolkatta, Bangalore etc are stuck with Ganguly and Dravid, and so are limited by price considerations....also as the Icon players get 15% more than the next highest paid, this automatically meant that these teams could NOT bid 1 million plus for any great Int'l ODI like Symonds, Dhoni etc, that will mean 2+ millions just for Ganguly and one star...and either way its a lose-lose situation. Only the icon player gains, if he promotes the price of the next highest player. Both Dravid and Ganguly have boosted their own prices by boosting bids for other Int'l players :D[/quote'] Yeah I know...but maybe Chennai overbid for Dhoni by 300000$. But, not having an icon player helps like anything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HariSampath Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Ishant is going to stay home in Delhi......next big up for grabs are Uthappa, Irfan, Zaheer, Sree, Kaif. Chennai looking for Irfan , RP Singh and Lasith Malinga, and may also seriously look towards Rohit Sharma, depending on whether Rohit will stay home or go out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunny Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 I think Bangalore will go for 2 of Smith, Gayle and Gibbs and 2 good bowlers. And they will suddenly be back in the reckoning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rohan495 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 what about Jaipur seems like they are lagging Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunny Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Whoever over bids for Sreesanth (I am sure it will be Mumbai) will be the serious loser in this auction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunny Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Yeah Jaipur will go for young guns. Chappell is the coach, isn't he ? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HariSampath Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 I think that Delhi is playing safe and want to keep Gambhir and Ishant home..thats why they are waiting to bid high enough for these 2. TA Sekhar is the Delhi Daredevils consultant and he may play an important part in buying 2 out of the 3...Zak, Irfan and Sree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HariSampath Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 I think Bangalore will go for 2 of Smith' date=' Gayle and Gibbs and 2 good bowlers. And they will suddenly be back in the reckoning.[/quote'] Gayle is going to Bangalore 100%...and also other West Indians are in the fray...Vijay mallya/Kingfisher bigtime Windies sponsors , you remember...they are all bhai-bhai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rohan495 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Chanderpaul is a steal too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HariSampath Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Shaun Pollock is a very very good option for Chennai. He scored a ODI 100 for African 11 here and has local following. He is also retired, and still at his peak as an allrounder. We need a good fast bowling allrounder too. GO get Polly Chennai !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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