Watson87 Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Completely agree with OP' date='I mean Jaddu going for 950 k,Gayle ,Swann not being picked,Complete Tamasha[/quote'] what's more surprising is rejects like Smith, Hopes and Stuart Broad gets selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachinism Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Nobody bought Tamim? What was his base price? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Nobody bought Tamim? What was his base price? 40 lakhs I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watson87 Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Nobody bought Tamim? What was his base price? 100,000 i think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachinism Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Am I the only one thinking that is an absolute bargain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Equinox Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Am I the only one thinking that is an absolute bargain? Tamim will show his true worth on the 19th of February. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitinbwj Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Brian Lara also goes Unsold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 I wouldn't say no logic, I mean Yusuf Pathan is one mean T20 player when compared to legend Ganguly, but yes some weird picks with high salaries (Jadeja for example), and few surprise rejects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViruRulez Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Ego clashes..noone wants that. Would agree somewhat. Dont know if it is for real but fake but the controversy and writings of fake IPL player about the ego clashes seems to have destroyed the IPL careers of all the KKR players. :cantstop: Legends are snubbed, Gayle/Dada gets no takers Mediocrity rules. And this tamasha totally sucks :finger: These two are not much surprising to be frank. Gayle would be unavailable as he would be playing with Pakis during IPL and so it makes sense especially with his base price. More surprising for me are steals like Boucher, Tamim Iqbal and Murali Kartik for their base prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ensd2 Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Murali kartik hasn't been wow really surprised he is really a quality spinner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaFan Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Am I the only one thinking that is an absolute bargain? Tamim said he doesnt care abt the money as long as he gets to play more cricket. Very unfortunate for him. :(( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap_Brannigan Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Tamim said he doesnt care abt the money as long as he gets to play more cricket. Very unfortunate for him. :(( BD is busy during IPL and he has a wrist injury, it seems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 reasonable explanation for some of the non-selections here: http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2011/content/current/story/495980.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jf1gp_1 Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Tamim will show his true worth on the 19th of February. yes 10 ball duck will prove why he wasnt picked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texy Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 This is phun cricket .....no real skills required...just make sure the ball hits the middle part of the bat.... losers like Rohit sharma getting 2 mil .....says it all Why even bother playing for India or going thru the rigor of hard training for test matches and playing the heat for 5 days....when u can make enough money for several years just by being available to play for a month! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laaloo Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 This is phun cricket .....no real skills required...just make sure the ball hits the middle part of the bat.... losers like Rohit sharma getting 2 mil .....says it all Why even bother playing for India or going thru the rigor of hard training for test matches and playing the heat for 5 days....when u can make enough money for several years just by being available to play for a month! only several years? more like a fking lifetime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 one of the reasons for these crazy salaries is the auction format. they should move to a draft format where unprotected players go into a pool, teams get assigned picking order based on previous season performance and then they start picking the best players available in order. Salaries can be preset based on the drafted number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKnowU Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 one of the reasons for these crazy salaries is the auction format. they should move to a draft format where unprotected players go into a pool' date=' teams get assigned picking order based on previous season performance and then they start picking the best players available in order. Salaries can be preset based on the drafted number.[/quote'] Bcco babus are too smart to use such a efficient system. :headshake: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravishingravi Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 In a sequence from the famous movie “Jungle Beauty”, Goga Kapoor sits gloatingly on a chair and opens an auction for the choicest of “jungle beauties”. Clad in their bare essentials, they turn round and round, as a group of eager bidders stand expectantly surveying what’s on offer. Then Goga Kapoor thunders, ” Doston, yeh jungle ki naageenein woh bulbule hain jinki saanson main phoolon ki mahek, badan mein haowoon ke taazgi, aur chaal main jharnon ki rawaangi hai…aap log husn aur jawaani ke jahuri boliye is naagein ki kya keemat lagate hain?” kHwyEbHkhoo I have always thought that the IPL auctions should start with these amazingly poetic lines, if only to set the mood and context. But then the world rarely goes the way I want it to. Instead it starts off with Sidhu Paaji, the man whom I lovingly refer to as “the Adolf Eichmann of the English language”, announcing that the hammer is going to descend. And the Queen, bless and God save her, is pregnant. Whatever the eff that means. The player auctions for IPL 4.0 was held today. It had drama. Last minute bids were being squeezed in just as the auction-master said “Sold”. The Kochi team kept making calls to the Gulf, presumably for more remittances. Vijay Mallaya suddenly lost it, like the “off with his head” Queen of Hearts act, claiming “unfairness” on the part of the auctioneer. As that happened, on cue, SET Max developed technical problems as the comforting face of Sunny Deol assured us that there was nothing violent going on. It had beauty. Zinta keeping up her “I am an American teenage girl and I can’t make up my mind as to which doll I want” act which passes off as “bubliness”. Shilpa Shetty wearing a plastic smile throughout, as clueless as Inzamam Ul Haq in a lecture on literary allusions in James Joyce’s Ulyesses. The Deccan Chargers table throwing up sparks of electric charge. It had moments of anguish, at least for fans like me. Great players were not bought and some others grossly undervalued, moments that made me want to shout, like Goga Kapoor “Ladki khadeene aaye yaah unke liye kaapde”? When the dust had settled, what was left was the fact that a whole lot of greens had just passed hands. Or as Kapil Sibal would call it, a mere computation error. The most talked about news of the night was the fact that Ganguly had not been bid for at USD 400,000. Dada might not be the same Dada who charged a firing -on-all-cylinders Shaun Pollock and sent the ball flying over point boundary or put holes in the ozone layer with those massive sixes. But he was still one of IPL’s top batsmen last season and in a loser franchise, was a proven multiple match-winner. He still brings passion and pride of performance to his game plus that amazing cricketing brain is something too precious not to be of use to even a single franchise. And at the very least, even if you cut off an arm and a leg, he would still be a better player than a USD 900K Ravindra Jadeja. That Knight Riders (or is it Kolkata Knight Riders—-since BCCI still lists them as Kolkata) would not retain him was anticipated. Shahrukh Khan had a well-known problem with Dada after he allegedly refused to convince the CPM government, with which he is perceived to be cozy, to waive West Bengal’s entertainment tax waived for IPL and I think he believes he can get the Eden crowd on his side through victories even without Dada on the roster. Or perhaps he wants to move to Cuttack. Or Dhaka. In which case he can stay in Kolkata, since with the number of migrants we have from Bangladesh, it will become Dhaka in a few years, if not already. Whatever KKR’s reasons be, what was surprising was that nobody else wanted Dada either, not even Subroto Roy. The reason for that could simply be his reputation of “being his own man” and maybe none of the franchises (most with Australian coaches) wanted him as a captain. Which honestly is the only way to play Dada. Otherwise he is not worth the money. There were other shockers too of course, besides Sidhu saying “The power belongs to the man with the beard”. One of these was that there was no one bid for Gayle. It seemed pre-decided,almost as if the man was from Pakistan. Well if he was from Pakistan at least the KKR table would have wrung their hands, trembled their lips and said “Agar Pakistan se pyaar karna gunaah hai….to hain…hain…hain….”. But even they sat impassive. Where there problems with his availability? If there is a problem with West Indian cricketers, how come Pollard was retained by Mumbai and Bravo also bought when no one, in their right mind, can doubt Gayle’s value as a T20 player. Among other surprises was Uthappa and Rohit Sharma being valued almost same as Gambhir and Yusuf Pathan. Jadeja and Piyush Chawla’s obscenely high price tag. The prospect of Symonds and Bhajji in the same dressing room, monkeying around. Most shocking of course was that KKR made just own howler in their bidding, making three solid buys and two borderline buys, a sharp departure from their past record of being Nigerian-scammed every auction night. [in a subsequent post, once the bids are all in, will do an analysis of the performance of every franchise in the whole auction process] This was the first time I actually watched the auctions live on TV. It was thrilling, more thrilling than the competition perhaps will be, so much so that I stayed awake the whole night. In a way this interest was natural. Because the bidding IS the real IPL, the heart of its darkness. The games that follow it are simply the post-script, the sound of the flush after the deed has been done. http://greatbong.net/2011/01/08/auctioned/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achilles Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Its a business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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